2016年12月大学英语四级阅读暑期练习及答案(三十八)

　　G. There have been efforts in the magazine industry to buck (抵制，反抗. the trend. For several years the Quebecmagazine Coup de Pouce hasconsistently included full-sized women in their fashion pages and Chatelainehaspledged not to touch up photos and not to include models less than 25 yearsof age. In Madrid, one of theworld's biggest fashion capitals, ultra-thinmodels were banned from the runway in 2006. Furthermore Spainhas recentlyundergone a project with the aim to standardize clothing sizes through using aunique process inwhich a laser beam is used to measure real life women's bodiesin order to find the most tree to lifemeasurement.

　　H. Another issue is the representation of ethnically diverse women inthe media. A 2008 study conducted byJuanita Covert and Travis Dixon titled"A Changing View: Representation and Effects of the Portrayal ofWomen ofColor in Mainstream Women's Magazines" found that although there was anincrease in therepresentation of women of c01our, overall white women wereoverrepresented in mainstream women'smagazines from 1999 to 2004.

　　I. The barrage of messagesabout thinness, dieting and beauty tells "ordinary" women that theyare always inneed of adjustment--and that the female body is an object to beperfected. Jean Kilboume argues that theoverwhelming presence of media imagesof painfully thin women means that real women's bodies have become invisible in the mass media。 The real tragedy, Kilbourne concludes, is that many womeninternalizethese stereotypes, and judge themselves by the beauty industry'sstandards. Women learn to comparethemselves to other women, and to compete withthem for male attention: This focus on beauty and desirability"effectivelydestroys any awareness and action that might help to change that climate."

　　根据以上内容，回答46-56题.

　　46、A report in Teen magazineshowed that 50% to 70% girls with normal weight think that they need to lose weight.

　　47、On the whole, for 6 yearswhite women had been occupying much more space in mainstream women's magazines since 1999.

　　48、Some negative effects suchas depression and unhealthy eating habits in females are related to their being exposed to images of thin and young femalebodies.

　　49、The mass media has helpedboost the cosmetic and the diet industries.

　　50、It is reported that thereis at least one message about the methods for women to change their bodilyappearance on more than three-quarters of the coversof women's magazines.

　　51、Some film and televisionactresses even faint on the scene due to eating too little.

　　52、Too much concern withappearance makes it impossible to change such abnormal trend.

　　53、Researchers found that areal woman with Barbie-doll proportions would eventually die from malnutrition.

　　54、The Quebec magazine Coup dePouce resists the trend by consistently including full-sized women in their fashion pages for several years.

　　55、According to some analysts,the fundamental reason of imposing standards of beauty on women is economic

　　答案解析:

　　46-55 DHCBF AIEBG

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