Why do people wear clothes? Your answer may be to keep w1. and to cover the body. That’s why people wear clothes, but people also want to look attractive and appear successful to others.

If people wear clothes only for warmth and to cover their bodies, most clothes would be simple and c2. . In many countries, however, clothes are sometimes very expensive. The main reason for this is not the cost of the materials or the cost of making clothes. The clothes are expensive because of fashion. Successful businessmen, for example, often wear very expensive suits, shirts and ties. So they p3. thousands of dollars for a suit and hundreds of dollars for a tie. It’s still just a suit and a tie, but they pay these prices because of the famous designs.

Fashion is constantly (持續(xù)不斷地) changing. It means that people who want to be fashionable have to buy new clothes every few months, even if last month’s clothes have only been worn once or t4.. Some people have boxes f5. of clothes, but some of these clothes have never been worn. These clothes are no longer in fashion though they are still new.

1.warm 2.cheap 3.pay 4.twice 5.full 【解析】這篇短文主要講述了衣服就是一種時尚，它在隨著社會的改變而改變。 1.句意：你的回答可能是保暖或遮蓋身體。Keep warm表示保暖。根據(jù)句意及首字提示，故填warm。 2.句意：大部分衣服會簡單和便宜。Cheap的意思是“便宜的”，根據(jù)句意及首字母提示，故填cheap。 ...
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