2016年考研英语一真题及答案.pdf
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2016 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语(一)
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France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its
fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for woman. Its
lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to
employ ultra-thin models on runways.
The parliament also agreed to ban websites that incite excessive thinness by
promoting extreme dieting.
Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives. They suggest beauty should
not be defined by looks that end up with impinging on health. Thats a start. And the ban
on ultra-thin models seems to go beyond protecting models from starring themselves to
health -as some have done. It tells the fashion industry that it move take responsibility for
the signal it sends women, especially teenage girls, about the social tape -measure they
must use to determine their individual worth.
The bans, if fully enforced ,would suggest to woman (and many men )that they
should not let others be orbiters of their beauty .And perhaps faintly, they hint that people
should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way
to sine zero or wasp-waist physiques .
The French measures, however, rely too much on severe punishment to change
a culture that still regards beauty as skin-deep-and bone-showing. Under the law, using a
fashion model that does not meet a government-defined index of body mess could result
in a $85,000 fine and six months in prison.
The fashion industry knows it has an inherent problem in focusing on material
adornment and idealized body types. In Denmark, the United States, and a few other
countries, it is trying t
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