Question

They wear the latest fashions with the most up-to-date accessorise(配飾)。Yet these are ginrls in their teens or twenties but  women in their sixties and seventies.A gengration which would once only wear old-fashioned clothes is now faouring the same high street looks worn by those half their age.

Professor Julia Twigg, a social policy expert , said ,“Wimen over 75 are now shopping for clothes more frequently than they old when they were young in the 1960s .In the 1960s buying a coat for a woman was a serious matter . It was an expensive item that they would puechase only every three or four years — now you can pick one up at the supernnackrt  whosever you wish to .Fashion is a lot cheaper and peope fet tired of things more quickiy . ”

Fashion designer Angela Barnard ,who runs own fashion business in London ,said older women were much more affected celebrity(名流) style than in previous years .

She said ,“When people see stars such as Judi Dench and Helen Mirren looking attractive and fashionable in their sixties ,they want to follow them . Older women are much more aware of celebrities .There’s also the boom in TV programmes showing people how they can change theiy look,and many of my older customers do roga to stay in shape well in their fifties . When I started my business a fen years ago .my older customers wended to be very rich, but now they are what I would call ordinary women .My own mother is 61 and she wears the latest fashions in a way she would caill ordinsry women .My own mother is 61 and she wears the latest fashions in a way she would never have done ten yeare ago.”

59. Professor Twigg found that ,compared with the 1960s,_______.

A. the price of clothes has generally fallen by 70%

B. the spending on clothes has increased by 5% or 6%

C. people spend 30% less than they did on cotothes

D. the amount of chothes bought has risen by 5% or 6%

60. What can we learn about old women in terms of fashion？

A.They are often ignored by fashion designers .

B. They are now more easily influenced by stars .

C. They are regarded as pioneers in the latest fashion .

D. They are more interested in clothes because of their old age .

61. It can be concluded that old women tend to wear the latest fashions today mainly because.

A. they get tired of things more quickly

B.TV shows teach them how to change look

C. they are in much better shape now

D. clothes are much cheaper than before

62. Which is the best possible title of the passage ?

A. Age Is No Barrier for Fashion Fans

B.The More Fashionable ,the Less Expensive

C.Unexpected Changes in Fashion

D.Boom of the British Fashion Industry

Answer 1

【小題1】A

【小題2】 B

【小題3】D

【小題4】A

解析:

【語篇解讀】本篇文章為說明文。街上奶奶輩兒的婦女們穿的越來越靚了。60年代買一件衣服是一件不小的事，也許三四年才能買一件外套。現(xiàn)在卻不一樣了，她們不僅穿著時尚，而且講究品牌�，F(xiàn)在的衣服價格比以前低多了，電視里的老年婦女時裝秀也推動了老年婦女的時尚運動。

【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第四段Clothes are now 70 per cent cheaper than they were in the 1960s可知。文中沒有談到衣服的銷售量的增長比例，只是在第三段說the amount of clothes bought had risen sharply，5% 或6%是指人們先前和現(xiàn)在在總支出中花在買衣服方面的錢的比例，而不是購買衣服的增長比，故排除B項，C項和D項。

【小題2】推理判斷題。從文章的最后一段可知，現(xiàn)在的老年婦女越來越注意自己的外表了，當(dāng)看到60幾歲的女明星穿著時尚時，她們就爭相模仿，她們甚至練瑜伽保持體形，因此看出她們是收到了明星的影響。

【小題3】推理判斷題�？v觀全文，老年婦女買新款衣服越來越多有兩個原因：一是時裝越來越便宜了，這一點可從第二段Fashion is a lot cheaper and people get tired of things more quickly.和第三段Clothes are now 70 per cent cheaper than they were in the 1960s可知，二是影視明星的示范起到了推波助瀾的作用。因此D項clothes are much cheaper than before是老年婦女追逐時尚的主因。

【小題4】主旨大意題。本文雖然是在談關(guān)于時尚的問題，但文章從頭至尾反復(fù)出現(xiàn)women in their sixties and seventies, women over 75, older women, older customers, own mother等表達，也就是說本文更多的談到是關(guān)于老年人追求時尚的話題，文中最突出的字眼是“老年婦女”時尚起來，四個選項中只有A項Age Is No Barrier for Fashion Fans（年齡不是時裝愛好者的障礙）提到了年齡，因此正確答案為D。