Barbie(芭比娃娃),believe it or not,is 50 this year and she's still as popular as ever.A doll is a doll,but Barbie illustrates how,over the last five decades,women have become a standard for judging what freedom really means. How women are treated in different countries tells you a lot about the politics and culture of where they live.

The doll that every little girl wants enables young children to test their possibilities in role playing,giving them a glimpse of what they might be when they grow up,whether to be frivolous or serious (or both).

But in many countries that's not an option. In Saudi Arabia,where woman can't drive or go out publicly unless covered,Barbie is banned. They think Barbie dolls are offensive to Islam(伊斯蘭教) and a threat to morality.

In America,she represents the swiftly changing roles of women. Barbie is fun to tease but she's as American as miniskirts_and_pantsuits in her flexible identities and her “growth” from model to astronaut.

Barbie inspired a doll­revolution movement. When a Teen Talk Barbie was programmed electronically to say “Math class is tough”,she was criticized by a national women's group and was regarded as a bad stereotype. Some of her critics also say she's a bad influence because she's too thin and encourages anorexia,that she has run through too many stereotypes(固定模式),and that she lends too much significance to the fantasy stages of child's play.

In some Muslim countries, substitute Barbie dolls have been developed that promote traditional values,with their modest clothing and pro­family backgrounds. They are widely seen as an effort to resist the American dolls that have flooded the market.

Toy seller Masoumeh Rahimi welcomed the dolls,saying Barbie was “foreign to Muslim culture” because some of the dolls have little clothing. She said young girls who play with Barbie,could grow into women who reject Muslim values. “I think every Barbie doll is more harmful than an American missile,”Ms. Rahimi said.

1.The writer mentioned “miniskirts and pantsuits”(in Paragraph 4) to imply that ________.

A.these are the only clothes a doll should wear

B.these are very traditional American clothes for women

C.there are a range of different life options available for women

D.readers should wear these clothes more often

2.The underlined word “anorexia” (in Paragraph 5) most probably means“________”.

A.a(chǎn)n illness of refusing to eat

B.giving up math study

C.the wearing of inappropriate clothes

D.a(chǎn) decrease in people's imagination

3.It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A.children who like Barbie dolls won't be so serious when they grow up

B.Muslim Barbies are the same as American Barbies

C.Muslim societies are generally more conservative than western societies

D.Americans have no worry about Barbie's influence on children

 

【答案】

 

1.C

2.A

3.D

【解析】

語篇解讀:芭比娃娃自誕生以來一直受世界各地兒童的喜歡,在這過去的五十年里婦女亦成為評判自由的標準。

1.詞義猜測題。迷你裙和(女士)褲套裝都是婦女的服裝,作者用此暗指美國女性生活方式多種多樣,所以C項正確。

2.詞義猜測題。根據(jù)該詞所在的語境:一些對她提出批評的人士指出她太瘦,愛美的女士為了擁有她那樣的體形而不吃飯,所以anorexia意思接近于“不愿吃飯而想瘦身的病癥”。

3.考查推斷理解。從文章第一段第一句可知小孩聞到魚腥味,應(yīng)該不想吃魚,故A項錯誤;根據(jù)文章可知不是所有的魚不能食用,因此少吃魚并不就意味著你就更環(huán)保,故B項錯誤;根據(jù)文章第三段“PCBs...can also be found in some fish.These dangerous man­made chemicals were used in many industries until 1977”可知C項錯誤;根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第三段“...advises that kids younger than 15 years old avoid fish that contains high levels of mercury and PCBs”可推測成年人食用含有化學物質(zhì)的魚,影響也許會小些,故D項正確。

 

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