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How we look and how we appear to others probably worries us more when we are in our teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life. Few of us are content to accept ourselves as we are, and few are brave enough to ignore the trends of fashion.
Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade that we should dress in certain way or behave in a certain manner. If we do, they tell us, we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment Changing fashion, of course, does not apply just to dress. A barber today does not cut a boy's hair in the same way as he used to, and girls do not make up in the same way as their mothers and grandmothers did. The advertisers show the latest fashionable styles and we are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think are odd or dull.
What causes fashions to change? Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion. Take hats, for example. In cold climates, early buildings were cold inside, so people wore hats indoors as well as outside. In recent times, late President Kennedy caused a depression in the American hat industry by not wearing hats: more American men followed his example.
There is also a cyclical pattern fashion. In the 1920s in Europe and America, short skirts became fashionable. After World War Two, they dropped to ankle length. Then they got shorter and shorter until the miniskirt was in fashion. After a few more years, skirts became longer again.
Today, society is much freer and easier than it used to be. It is no longer necessary to dress like everyone else. Within reason, you can dress as you like or do your hair the way you like instead of the way you should because it is the fashion.
The popularity of jeans and the “untidy” look seems to be a reaction against the increasingly expensive fashions of the top fashion houses.
At the same time, appearance is still important in certain circumstances and then we must choose our clothes carefully. It would be foolish to go to an interview for a job in law firm wearing jeans and a sweater; and it would be discourteous to visit some distinguished scholar looking as if we were going to the beach or a nightclub. However, you need never feel depressed if you don't look like the latest fashion photo. Look around you and you'll see that no one else does either!
In the opening paragraph, the author thinks that people are________.
第一段最后一句“Few of us are content to accept ourselves as we are, and few are brave enough to ignore the trendsoffashion.” 即：几乎没有人真正满意自己，也几乎没有人敢忽视潮流的趋势。C 项符合题意。
Fashion magazines and TV advertisement seems to link fashion to ________.
第二段第二句提至到“ If we do... we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment. ” 可见时尚杂志和电视广告将时尚与自信联系起来了。
According to the author, causes of fashions are________.
从第三段 “Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion.” 可见，时尚的起因多种多样。
Present-day society is much freer and easier because it emphasizes________.
倒数第三段的最后一句说明现代社会人们可以随心所欲的穿搭，表明了现代社会的多样性。
The last paragraph most probably denotes that ________.
最后一段提到在正式场合还是要注意外在形象，并举出了相应的例子。故 A 最符合题意。