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To Design Perfect School
Uniforms 设计完美的校服
题材：文化教育 难度：＊＊＊＊ 词数：381标准时间：15分钟 完成时间：______ 正确数：______
Believe it or not, there are good reasons for wearing a
school uniform. It makes you 1__ proud
of your school. It builds a common spirit of unity (整体) among students and 2 them of the values and history of their
school. But for most students, school uniforms are not something to be proud of
3 .
“Why
4
the school uniform just
one day a week? Always wearing the same clothes makes me feel boring,” a senior
student from a high school complained (抱怨).
“I don’t like the big English letters of the name of our school on the back,”
said a junior student “They could be __5 .” The main student complaints about
school uniforms are: simple colors, boring designs and bad 6 . And a teacher at a middle school
in Guangzhou
said that 7
a teacher and a mother, she
eagerly 8
the quality of school
uniforms will be improved soon.
What has caused all
these problems? Chen Hong, a uniform designer in Shenzhen, pointed out that
problems 9 because the whole society doesn’t see the
10
of the school uniform.
“Most designers are 11
to stick to the same old
fashion, 12 _ there are no
professionals (专业人员) 13
work for students,” Chen
said.
His company 14
most of the awards in
the first national competition for school uniforms last month in Nanning, Guangxi.
“Besides,
high quality calls for a high price,” said Chen. “But in some schools, the
annual (一年一度) expense
for each student’s uniform is only 50 to 60 yuan. How
can we produce high quality clothes with so 15 money?”
Even
with these problems, efforts have been made 16
the situation, according
to Zhai Shiliang, 17 of the School Uniform Administration and Service Center
in Beijing. A
school clothes competition was held in April in Beijing. Thirty-seven uniforms, 18 in schools next spring, were selected
from 570. “We will offer the samples (样品) for
schools to choose,” Zhai said.
“The
perfect uniform should remind the students of the school’s honor and cause them
to be proud of it 19
they are,” Chen said. Zhai added, “During the 2008 Olympic Games, the whole world
will see the new appearance of our 20 century young generation with new school
uniforms.”
