单选题 Young women who take part in beauty contests(比赛) are helping to keep alive an outdated opinion of women: that a woman's most important value is how she looks.
Women have been working very hard through the years to change their image(形象). They have been trying to prove that the value of a woman does not lie only in her beauty. The world is just beginning to recognize that women are as smart, wise and strong in personality as men are, and that there are qualities more important than looks when judging people. When women take part in beauty contests for top prizes, they encourage people to value them for their beauty alone. It is unfair to say that beauty alone determines one's worth.
Beauty contests not only encourage spectators(观众) to judge women by their appearance, but they encourage this idea in the contestants as well. These young women spend months losing weight to be the "fight" size and learning how to dress, wear makeup, and walk just fight so that some judges will consider them beautiful. I think it's great for a woman to feel good about her appearance, but looks shouldn't be sought after in an extreme or unreasonable way. There are too many other, more important, things in a young woman's life: learning, developing friendships and preparing for their future work and perhaps a family.
As long as there are beauty contests, women won't be fully recognized as well-rounded human beings.
单选题 According to the text, women have tried to change their image by ______.
  • A. proving they are as good as men
  • B. paying attention to their clothes
  • C. winning more beauty contests
  • D. encouraging people to value their beauty
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 推理题。题干意为“根据文章，女性试图通过什么去改变她们的形象?”。由文章第二段第一句和第二句，可以推断出女性通过证明和男性一样通过品质来判断自身价值，从而来改变女性的形象。故A正确。
单选题 What do women usually do in preparation for beauty contests?
  • A. Learn about their personality.
  • B. Do everything for their bodies.
  • C. Choose the right size dresses.
  • D. Develop friendship with spectators.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。题干意为“女性常常做什么来为选美比赛做准备?”。依据第三段第二句文章所陈述的“These young women spend months losing weight to be the 'right' size and learning how to dress, wear makeup, and walk just right...”，故B正确。
单选题 What can we infer from the text?
  • A. Looks determine everything.
  • B. Wisdom carries much weight.
  • C. Spectators should have their voices heard.
  • D. Qualities other than looks are more important.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 推理题。题干意为“从文章我们能推理出什么?”。根据文章内容，我们可以推断出作者是不赞成选美比赛的，因为选美比赛都是以貌取人，而不是根据品质评价女性。故D正确。
单选题 According to the author, beauty contests are ______.
  • A. disrespectful to women
  • B. unpleasant to contestants
  • C. necessary for modem society
  • D. helpful in improving women's image
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 推理题。题干意为“根据作者，选美比赛是______”。根据文章最后一段，作者认为只要有选美比赛存在，女性就不可能被作为一个全面发展的人来看待。所以这是一种不尊重女性的行为，故A正确。