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【題目】Throughout the world, clothing has many uses. It is used to provide protection from cold. It is also worn to prevent others from seeing specific parts of one’s body. However, the parts of the body that must be covered vary widely throughout the world. Some clothing is worn to provide supernatural protection. Wearing a lucky shirt to take an exam is calling for supernatural assistance.

People in all cultures use clothing and other forms of bodily decoration to communicate status(身份), intentions and other messages. In North America, we dress differently for business and various leisure activities. North American women usually are much more knowledgeable of little difference in messages communicated by clothes than men. At times, this leads to silly mistakes of understanding of female intentions on the part of men. Of course, clothing styles also are intended to communicate messages to members of the same gender（性別）.

Long before we are near enough to talk to someone, their appearance tells their gender, age, economic class, and often even intentions. We begin to recognize the important cultural clues at an early age. The vocabulary of dress that we learn includes not only items of clothing but also hairstyles, jewelry, and other body decoration. In most cultures, however, the same style of dress communicates different messages depending on the age, gender, and physical appearance of the individual wearing it.

Putting on certain types of clothing can change your behavior and the behavior of others towards you. This can be the case with a doctor’s white lab coat, or an army uniform. Most uniforms are clearly symbolic so that they can rapidly and unmistakably communicate status. For instance, the strange hairstyle and clothing of the English “punks” are essential aspects of their uniforms.

There are many forms of body decoration other than clothes that are used around the world to send messages. These include body and hair paint, and even body deformation. When doctors put braces on teeth, they are actually doing the same thing – deforming or reforming a part of the body to make it more attractive.

【1】Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A. Clothing and Culture

B. Ways of Sending Message

C. Clothing and Social Behavior

D. Communication through Clothing

【2】Some people wear lucky shirts to take an exam because they believe .

A. clothes can hide their fear for the exam

B. clothes have extraordinary power

C. shirts can make them more comfortable

D. shirts provide protection against bad weather

【3】From the passage, it can be inferred that .

A. clothing plays an important role in social activities

B. words of dress are unable to communicate different messages

C. dress is better than language in communicating messages

D. messages communicated by clothes are the same in different cultures

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】A

【解析】

試題分析:衣服有很多作用，本文作者主要講述衣服和許多身體的裝飾物傳達(dá)人的地位，性別，年齡，意圖或者其他信息，衣服也可以改變?nèi)说男袨榛蛘咧車(chē)�人的行為舉止。

【1】主旨分析題。從文中第二段People in all cultures use clothing and other forms of bodily decoration to communicate status(身份), intentions and other messages在所有文化中，人用服裝和其他形式的身體裝飾傳達(dá)身份、 意圖和其他消息，從全文看，可知作者多次提出衣服communicate messages to members of the same gender傳達(dá)同一性別成員的信息等，故選D。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從文中第一段Some clothing is worn to provide supernatural protection. Wearing a lucky shirt to take an exam is calling for supernatural assistance. 穿一些衣服是為了提供超自然的保護(hù)。穿著一件幸運(yùn)衫去參加一門(mén)考試是在呼吁超自然的幫助。故他們相信衣服有非同一般的力量。故選B。

【3】推斷分析題。排除法。從文中第二段In North America, we dress differently for business and various leisure activities.在北美，我們穿著不同的衣服參加商業(yè)和各種各樣的活動(dòng)，故可以推斷出A選項(xiàng)，衣服在社交活動(dòng)中扮演重要角色；而選項(xiàng)B，從文中第三段The vocabulary of dress that we learn includes not only items of clothing but also hairstyles, jewelry, and other body decoration. 我們學(xué)到的禮服的詞匯不只包括衣服的商品還有發(fā)型、 首飾和其他身體裝飾。故不能推斷出禮服的詞匯不能傳達(dá)不同的信息，故B不正確。而選項(xiàng)C，文中并未將衣服與語(yǔ)言作對(duì)比，故無(wú)從推斷，故C不正確；而選項(xiàng)D，從文中第二段，單獨(dú)列舉北美人的文化，不能推斷出不同文化中衣服傳達(dá)的信息是一樣的，或者根據(jù)常識(shí)判斷此選項(xiàng)也可以，可知D不正確。故選A。