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If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselve

游客2023-09-10  18
问题     If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion. When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she has nothing to wear.
    Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste. Many women spend vast sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women who cannot afford to throw away clothing in this way, waste hours of their time altering the dresses they have. Skirts are lengthened or shortened; neck-lines are lowered or raised, and so on.
    No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and durability. They are only interested in outward appearance (外表) and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, as long as they look right. There can hardly be a man who hasn’t at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin dress on a winter day, or delicately picking her way through deep snow in high-heeled shoes.
    When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion, the conclusions to be drawn are obvious. Do the constantly changing fashions of women’s clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities of inconstancy (反复无常) and instability? Men are too clever to let themselves be cheated by fashion designers. Do their unchanging styles of dress reflect basic qualities of stability and reliability? That is for you to decide.  [br] Designers and big stores always make money ______.
选项 A、by mercilessly exploiting women workers in the clothing industry
B、because they are capable of predicting new fashions
C、by constantly changing the fashions in women s clothing
D、because they attach great importance to quality in women s clothing
答案 C
解析 本文是一篇关于女性与时尚的文章。在文中作者认为：女性往往被设计师和大的时装店利用，她们的衣服往往没有穿几次就因过时而被丢弃。很多女性往往为她们自己几乎不穿的衣服支出一大笔开销。本题是一个细节理解题，文中第1段中的第二句就告诉读者：由于女性往往因自己的服装过时而焦虑，因此，她们往往被设计师和大的时装店所利用。因此，这里C项符合原文。故选C项。
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