2013年高考英语试题(模拟)(7)
You are a young adult. It is your life. No one can live it for you. The choices that you make from now on will be your choices. So making the right choices will be important to you. Life is for living. Enjoy your life wisely!
50. The best title for this passage would be _________.
A. The Choices in Life. B. The Key to Success.
C. Say Goodbye to the Past. D. Becoming a Young Adult.
51. Who do the underlined words “some people” (Para. 5) probably refer to?
A. Your parents. B. Your classmates. C. True friends. D. Your relatives.
52. The author thinks teenage years are _________.
A. a period of complete freedom
B. too hard for young to get through
C. an important time for the young to make right choices
D. a very important period for young students to leave their parents.
53. Who is the passage mainly written for?
A. Teenagers. B. Teachers. C. Young parents. D. Adults.
C
If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion.
Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste. Many women spend large sum of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women who cannot afford to throw away clothing in this way, waste hours of their time changing their old-fashioned dresses. Skirts are lengthened or shortened; neck-lines are lowered or raised, and so on.
No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashion designers are rarely connected with necessary things like warmth, comfort and durability（耐用年限）. They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, as long as they look right. There can hardly be a man who hasn’t at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin dress on a winter day, or picking her way through deep snow in high heeled shoes.
