题目内容

If you were walking around a supermarket and saw a woman with a shaved head, a ring through her nose, a tattoo（纹身）design on her arm and she has a small child in her shopping trolley, what would your opinion be? Do you think this kind of body decoration is attractive or ugly? Different people have different ideas. The following are some examples of body decoration from around the world.

In many parts of Africa, it is thought that an attractive girl should have really shinny skin.

On Bali, a little island in Indonesia, they believe that a beautiful woman or handsome man must have perfectly straight, flat teeth. The Balinese believe that teeth with pointed edges make you look like an ugly wild animal. So when a girl or boy becomes a teenager, he or she is taken to a special person in their village who will file off teeth points to make them smooth and flat. There is no anesthetic（麻药）and this tooth filing is really painful. It is a kind of test. If you can stand it without screaming or crying too much, then you are thought ready to become an adult.

In Myanmar, there is a small group of people who are called the “Papaung”. They believe that a woman can only be really beautiful if she has a long neck. I mean a VERY long neck. Now you might think that you are either born with a long or short neck and that there’s nothing whatever you can do about it. But you would be wrong! At around the age of 5, a Papaung girl has heavy metal rings fitted around her neck, tightly between the chin and shoulders. Each year more rings are added and very, very slowly their weight pushes the shoulders down, in this way making the neck look longer. A Papaung woman will wear her neck rings all her life, never once taking them off.

So now I’m sure you will all agree that different people have different ideas about what is beautiful.

1. What is mainly talked about in paragraph one?

A. Women’s design. B. Beautiful body decoration.

C. Body decoration.D. Attractive decoration.

2. What does the underlined word “trolley” mean?

A. schoolbag B. luggage

C. basket D. shopping cart

3.On Bali, it is believed that _________.

A. a person with straight, flat teeth looks ugly

B. a person with sharp teeth looks ugly

C. a teenager’s teeth points must be filed off with anesthetic

D. no one will scream or cry when having his teeth points filed off

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Many people think that a woman with a ring through nose is neither attractive nor ugly.

B. Most African people think that a girl with shinny skin is beautiful.

C. It is thought that a beautiful woman should have straight, flat teeth on Bali.

D. Some people think it beautiful that a woman has a long neck in Myanmar.

 

1.C

2.D

3.B

4.A

【解析】

试题分析: 本文是一篇说明文，介绍了不同地方对美的不同看法。比如在非洲，人们认为漂亮的女孩得拥有光泽的皮肤。而在印度尼西亚的巴厘岛上，人们都认为扁平的牙齿好看的，认为尖尖的牙齿则看上去像动物。

1. decoration这一话题，故答案选C。

2.词意猜测题。根据上文a supermarket可知作者是描述在超市购物的妇女，由此推断她是把小孩放在购物车中，选D。

3.细节理解题。根据第二段The Balinese believe that teeth with pointed edges make you look like an ugly wild animal.可知他们认为牙齿尖的人难看，选B。

4.细节理解题。根据文章第二段内容可知BC选项正确，根据第三段内容可知D选项正确，而A选项内容没有提及，故答案选A。

考点：考查社会习俗类短文阅读

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