题目内容
Complete the following passage by using the words in the box.Each word can only be used once.Note that there is one word more than you need.
How we look and how we appear to others probably worry 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 1 the trends of fashion.
Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us that we should dress in a 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 without 2 .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 us the latest 3 styles and we are 4 under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or dull.
What causes fashions to change?Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can 5 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, the late President Kennedy caused a(n) 6 in the American hat industry by not wearing hats:more American men followed his example.
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 7 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 8 .It would be foolish to go to an interview for a job in a law firm wearing jeans and a sweater; and it would be 9 to visit some distinguished scholar looking as if we were going to the beach or a night club.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!
Consult the page adapted from an English dictionary and do Questions 65~68.![]()
【小题1】 What does the phrase “green shoots” mean in “Green shoots have begun to appear in different markets”?
| A.Signs of recovery. | B.High prices. |
| C.Environmental protection. | D.Change in policy. |
| A.shot out | B.shot through | C.shot up | D.shot down |
| A.shooting yourself in the foot | B.shooting the breeze |
| C.shooting your mouth off | D.shooting questions at somebody |
| A.shooter | B.shoot | C.shot | D.shooting |