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It is have xxxxxx that clothing manufacturcrs（生产商）follow certa a untharm standards far yarious featurce（特征）of clothes. What seerns strange, however. Is that the xxxxxx adopted for women is the opposite of the one for men. Take a look at the way your clodns buntm. Men’s clothes tend to button from the right, and women’s form the left. Lonsidering most of the world’s popalation—men and women—are right-handnd, the men’s standard would apper inake more sense for women. Xxxxx why do women’s clethes bution from the left?

Histov mally coms to matter here. Buttons finst appcaned only on the lothes or the rich in the 17^th camary. When rich women were dressed by servents. For the mostly right-hand-d servants, having women’s shirts button from the left would be easier. On the other hand, having men’s shirt button from the right made secse.too. Most men dressed themselves, and a swont drawn from the lelt with the right hand would be lese likely to get catght in the sairt.

Tady women are seldom dressed by scryants. Hat tuaoning from the lefts still the standard for them. Is it intcesting? Actually, a standoont, once set, resists change. At a time when all women’s shirts buttoned from the left, it would have been risky for any sigle manufactura is offer women’s shirts that battoned from the right. After all, women had grown so used to shirts whirt unored from the left and would have to devclop new habits and skills to switch. Benides, come women might have found it socially awkward to appear in public wearing shirts that buttoned from the right, since anyone who rociced that would believe they were wearing men’s shirts.

64.What is surprising about the standard of the clothing industry?

  A.It has been followed by the industry for over 400 years.

  B.It is different for men’s clothing and women’s.

  C.It works better with men than with women.

  D.It fails to consider right-handed people.

65.What do we know about the rich men in the 17^th century?

  A.They tended to wear clothes without bottons.

  B.They were interested in historical matters.

  C.They were mostly dressed by servants.

  D.They drew their swords from the left.

66.Women’s clothes still button from the left today because______.

  A.abouting men’s style is improper for women

  B.manufacturers should follow standards

  C.modern women dress themselves

D.customs are hard to change

67.The passage is mainly developed by _______.

  A.analyzing causes

  B.making comparisons

  C.examining differences

  D.following the time order

Answer 1

64-67BD DA

解析:

【语篇解读】本文由男女衣服的不同，分析产生这种不同的原因，并且告诉我们这种不同为什么延续到现在。

【小题1】细节理解题。由 “What seems strange , however, is that the standard adopted for women is the opposite of the one for men.”可知男女衣服的标准不一样令人惊奇。所以答案选B项。

【小题2】细节理解题。根据文中“Most men dressed themselves, and a sword drawn from the left with the right hang would be less likely to get caught in the shirt.”可判断选D项。

【小题3】细节理解题。根据“Actually, a standard , once set, resists change.”可知，习惯一旦养成，就很难改变是女式衣服的纽扣仍然在左边的原因。由此判断选D项。

【小题4】组织结构题。通观整篇文章可以看出，作在开始提到一个现象――男女衣服的标准相反，然后分析这种现象产生的历史原因，最后告诉我们现在这是这样的原因。由此判断选A项。