【題目】Are you wearing old clothes?

Don’t worry if you are. Clothes bought at thrift shops are more popular than ever in the West nowadays.

A lot of young people have an interest in secondhand clothing.

Goodwill Industries, one of the most famous secondhand shopping companies in the US, said there had been an increase of 84 percent in money made from the sale of donated goods from 2007 to 2012, from $1.9 billion(about 13 billion yuan) to $3.5 billion.

Fanny Moizant, an online group that sells used clothes from luxury brands(奢侈品牌), agrees that “secondhand” is part of fashion now.

“Fashion has changed,” she told the Financial Times last month.” People need our service ----they need a place to let go and get rid of this excess(過(guò)剩).”

It wasn’t always this way. Secondhand clothes used to be much less popular.

Keren Charles, 37, from the US, remembers how embarrassed she was the first time she entered a thrift store more than 20 years ago.

“I didn’t want anyone to see me,” Charles told CNN. “In high school, people thought you were either poor or homeless.”

Now, the fashion fan says about 97 percent of her clothes are secondhand. Her favorite find is a $5 blue evening dress that could be worth hundreds of dollars.

So what is a thrift shop, exactly?

According to the US Association of Resale Professionals, a thrift shop is run by a not-for –profit（非盈利的）organization to get money to charitable causes.

The shops have become popular in recent times due to economic reasons.

More customers began coming to thrift shops in the US at the start of the recession(蕭條), according to CNN.

And now secondhand clothing and vintage items are showing up in Western high fashion and street wear.

Fashionable hip-hop artist Macklemore and Ryan Lewis even wore a 2013 Billboard Music Award for their hit song Thrift Shop. The song is about “l(fā)ooking for a come up”(search for cheap things in a thrift store.

However, thrift store culture may be great for new shoppers and for business but it’s not so great for shoppers like Charles who are still “l(fā)ooking for a come up.”

“The competition is tough now,” she told CNN. “You’re in the thrift stores, and you’re seeing so many other people, but it’s still better than shopping at a department store.”

【1】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?

A. Vintage items sell better than other used clothes.

B. Thrift shops are a new form of shops that have appeared in the last 10 years.

C. Thrift shops sell used clothes in order to help people in need.

D. Young people show less interest in secondhand clothing than older people.

【2】According to the article, secondhand clothes have become popular in the West because _______.

A. there are more thrift stores to shop in

B. people have to live on less money

C. artists and stars are often seen in secondhand clothes

D. people now care less about others’ opinions

【3】The underlined word “Vintage” in paragraph 15 probably means“_________”.

A. old but expensive??? B. large and very beautiful??? C. old but high quality??? D. popular and new

【4】What is the article mainly about?

A. The popularity of thrift store culture.

B. The importance of recycling secondhand clothes.

C. Different attitudes toward thrift shops.

D. The influence of the economy on fashion.

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】C

【4】A

【解析】解析：本文主要給我們介紹了西方二手市場(chǎng)的一些具體情況。因?yàn)榻?jīng)濟(jì)下滑，一些出售二手產(chǎn)品的商店變得更受歡迎。

【1】解析：題意：根據(jù)文章，下列哪一個(gè)陳述是正確的？A. 風(fēng)靡一時(shí)的物品比其他舊衣服賣得好。B. 二手店是過(guò)去10年中出現(xiàn)的一種新型商店。C. 二手店出售舊衣服以幫助有需要的人。D.年輕人對(duì)二手衣服的興趣不如老年人。通過(guò)對(duì)整篇文章的理解可知C選項(xiàng)符合題意，故答案選C。

【2】解析：題意：根據(jù)整篇文章，二手衣服在西方已經(jīng)很流行是因?yàn)槭裁矗?/span>A. 有更多的二手店可以去購(gòu)物。B. 人們不得不靠更少的錢生活。C. 藝術(shù)家和明星經(jīng)常穿著二手衣服。D.人們心中不太關(guān)心別人的意見(jiàn)。通過(guò)對(duì)整篇文章的理解可知D選項(xiàng)符合題意，故答案選D。

【3】解析：題意：在第15段中帶下劃線的單詞“vintage”可能是什么意思？A. old but expensive古老但是昂貴的；B. large and very beautiful大，而且很漂亮；C. old but high quality古老但是高質(zhì)量的；D. popular and new受歡迎而且是新的。根據(jù)句意：現(xiàn)在二手服裝和______服飾正出現(xiàn)在西方高級(jí)時(shí)裝和街頭服飾中，可知應(yīng)該是“古老但高質(zhì)量的”，故答案選C。

【4】解析：題意：這篇文章主要內(nèi)容是什么？A. The popularity of thrift store culture.二手商店文化的流行。B. The importance of recycling secondhand clothes.回收舊衣服的重要性。C. Different attitudes toward thrift shops.對(duì)二手店的不同態(tài)度。D. The influence of the economy on fashion.經(jīng)濟(jì)對(duì)時(shí)尚的影響。通過(guò)閱讀整篇文章可知全篇都是在圍繞二手商店的流行文化來(lái)寫，所以A選項(xiàng)符合題意，故答案選A。

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