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What do you think being beauty really means? All answers to that question are correct, because there are no right or wrong replies. Despite(不管) what society tries to make us believe, there is no “ideal” beauty. There are exact standards—hair colour, or eye colour—that make someone beautiful. Think about it: did you consider someone to be really beautiful, but your friend didn’t see it? That’s because what’s attractive to one person isn’t necessarily going to be attractive to another. So how can we believe that there’s a standard for beauty? It makes no sense.
Weight-loss companies and clothing industries seem to have made it their goal to get us believe that we are not enough and that we need all kinds of things to be prettier. It’s not true! Companies sell us this ideas for their products to make money. I’m not saying that buying beauty products is bad, but what would be bad is using them because you feel like you have to look a certain way in order to be “beautiful”.
Remember, the people wear tons of make-up and are photoshopped in order to look perfect. When you see a girl who society considers as a “great body”, you have to remember that people have different body types and everyone’s body is different. We’re all beautiful, whether we’re slim, thickset or anywhere in between. If you want to lose weight, go ahead, but do it in a healthy way and do it for the right reason—not because you want to fit in. Being comfortable with yourself is really important, and being with others who accept you as you are and don’t ask you to change to look a specific(特定的) way is important too.
Beauty standards | |
What being beautiful means | ●It’s not 1. to give an answer to the question. ●One’s beauty cannot be decided by exact standards. ●People have 2. ideas about beauty. |
Social factors | ●Weight-loss companies and clothing industries 3. our ideas about beauty for the sales of their products. ●It’s bad to use products in order to fit in with a certain standard. |
4. | ●People have different body types and each of us has our own beauty. ●It’s OK to lose weight but remember to do it 5.. ●It’s important for you to accept the way you are and spend time with people who don’t ask you to change the way you look. |
During the Reading Week, we are asked to read ____________ (章节).
Many tourists were ___________ (迫使) to stop over in that town because of the flood.
I don't think we can complete the task ____________ (顺利地) without your support.
Though it is _________ (令人疲倦的) to prepare for the High School Entrance Examination, we will “keep calm and carry on”.
Spring is here, the colourful flowers are seen everywhere but it is a pity that many of us are not able to smell them while enjoying the colourful flowers.
Growing levels of air pollution from the factories and cars have reduced flower fragrances(芳香) by up to 90 percent in the US, compared with pre-industrial levels 100 years ago.
But if the trend is simply unpleasant for human noses, it may be life-dangerous for bees and butterflies.
Many insects find flowers by following the scent produced by those flowers.
The increasing pollution makes it difficult for them to find the flowers and feed on their nectar (花蜜).
Scientists have already found that flowers produce scent molecules (气味分子) that mix with polluted things, which breaks down the plants’ sweet smell.
With more pollution in the air, the scent molecules don’t remain powerful as long and travel shorter distances on the wind. In the mid-19th century, when pollution levels were first recorded, scent molecules would have been able to travel some 1,000 to 1,200 meters. Today, in the polluted air of large cities, scents may only make it some 200 to 300 meters.
Also, pollution from polluted air may fool the bee’s “nose”, making their search for flowers all the more difficult.
In a paper published recently in Scientific Reports, scientists said that the nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in polluted air could change many chemicals that work together to give a flower its special smell.
“This”, researchers said, “could prevent honeybees from reaching their flowers and prevent the pollination (授粉) of some of the world’s food crops.” Or, this could put in danger agricultural harvests worldwide.
But the bees seem to have learned to get used to the changing world. “In nature honeybees use their special eyes and flower smell to find out where a flower is for the first time,” the researchers said.
1.According to the article, researchers have recently found that ________.
A.reduced flower fragrances have resulted in the dying out of many bees and butterflies
B.reduced flower fragrances are connected to growing levels of air pollution
C.polluted things in the air prevent flowers from producing scent molecules
D.flowers today can’t produce enough nectar because of air pollution
2.What do the underlined words “the trend” in Paragraph 3 refer to (指的是)?
A.Increasing air pollution.
B.Reduce flower fragrances.
C.Human beings’ worse sense of smell.
D.A growing number of power plants and cars.
3.The scent molecules a plant produces are mainly to ________.
A.help flowers to produce nectar B.prevent insects from eating the plant
C.draw attention from bees and butterflies D.clear up polluted things in the air
4.We can infer (推断) from the article that ________.
A.future food crops won’t depend on bees to complete their pollination
B.bees have great advantages in their senses compared to humans
C.world food crop production is likely to fall greatly in the near future
D.some bees have successfully get over the challenge of reduced flowers fragrance
