NEW YORK（Reuters）­—The Internet and advances in technology are transforming fashion, making it easier for designers to create collections and less expensive for them to show and sell their work, experts say．

Instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars on a runway（T形臺(tái)）show at New York Fashion Week, some designers presented collections for spring and summer 2010 online, while others are expanding the reach of their brand by making it easier for shoppers to buy their clothes online．

Designer Norma Kamali and Polo Ralph Lauren Corp both have applications for Apple Inc's iPhone that allows shoppers to buy clothes from their phone．"This is the technology that's changing our lives," said Kamali, who displayed her spring and summer 2010 collection as well as exclusive lines （專賣品） for eBay Inc and Walmart．com at the Apple store in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood．

Kamali's iPhone application has a "Try Before You Buy" option, which allows clothes to be sent overnight to a customer, who provides her credit card information, so she can try them on at home before deciding to buy．

Menswear designer Miguel Antoinne and womenswear designer Marc Bouwer both put on virtual fashion shows, while models at fashion designer Vivienne Tam's show carried a laptop computer adorned（裝飾）with a Tam design．

Mazdack Rassi, co-founder and creative director of Milk Studios, a downtown space that showed about 70 collections during New York Fashion Week, and was considering projecting shows on the side of a building so people at nearby park could watch．

With cable TV and the Internet, designers know that their shows can be seen by many more people than just the editors and media who attend．

Designers are finding that technology can also help the actual design work by allowing artists to explore new ideas and processes．

But Simon Collins, the dean of fashion at Parsons----the new school for design, said even though technology is helpful, there is still no substitute for talent and hard work．"Absolutely, there'll be people out there that have successful businesses that don't know the first thing about draping（剪裁） and construction, just think it up, put it on the computer, fire it off the factory and it works," Collins said．"But they're the exception, not the rule."

71. According to the passage, one advantage of the Internet is that it allows the designers to_________．

A. share their collections with other designers

B. receive information about the popular fashion trend

C. display their work at a lower cost

D. inform the editors and media of their collections

72. Which of the following is TRUE about Kamali?

A. She's against buying clothes online．

B. She's aware of the importance of the Internet．

C. She thinks New York Fashion Week will attract fewer and fewer people．

D. She's considering holding a show on the side of a building．

73. We can infer from the passage that ____________．

A. designers are finding various ways to make their shows known to the public

B. it's dangerous to do online shopping

C. few people pay attention to virtual fashion shows

D. it's difficult to become a well-known designer

74. According to the last paragraph, we know that Collins ____________．

A. is a successful businessman

B. does not agree that technology is helpful in designing works

C. does not understand the fashion of actual design work

D. pays more attention to people's natural gift and hard work

75. The purpose of the writing is to ____________．

A. stress the role of technology in fashion

B. celebrate the success of New York Fashion Week

C. introduce the activities in New York Fashion Week

D. advertise New York Fashion Week

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【小題1】 What does“dropouts”in Paragraph One mean?

A．Hardworking students.B．Very successful students.
C．Students failing to finish their school education.D．Students from poor families.
【小題2】Which of the following is right according to Paragraph One?
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1.The passage is most probably a ________.

A．news report                           B．research report

C．story for soccer players                   D．text for doctors

2. In which way can researchers find the structural changes in the brain?

A．Computerized test                       B．Questionnaire

C．Scanning                              D．M.R.I. technique

3. From the passage we can conclude that frequent heading may have ________.

A．significant effect on brain                 B．little effect on one’s brain

C．nothing to do with the brain injury           D．one’s memory improved

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A．Playing soccer frequently                 B．Tests of their memory

C．White matter loss                       D．Information processing

5.The underlined word “fumbling” is closest in meaning to ________?

A．remembering      B．misunderstanding   C．recalling          D．missing

 

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