Question

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(伊斯兰教) 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．an illness of refusing to eat

B．giving up math study

C．the wearing of inappropriate clothes

D．a 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

Answer

1.C

2.A

3.D

【解析】

语篇解读：芭比娃娃自诞生以来一直受世界各地儿童的喜欢，在这过去的五十年里妇女亦成为评判自由的标准。

1.词义猜测题。迷你裙和(女士)裤套装都是妇女的服装，作者用此暗指美国女性生活方式多种多样，所以C项正确。

2.词义猜测题。根据该词所在的语境：一些对她提出批评的人士指出她太瘦，爱美的女士为了拥有她那样的体形而不吃饭，所以anorexia意思接近于“不愿吃饭而想瘦身的病症”。

3.考查推断理解。从文章第一段第一句可知小孩闻到鱼腥味，应该不想吃鱼，故A项错误；根据文章可知不是所有的鱼不能食用，因此少吃鱼并不就意味着你就更环保，故B项错误；根据文章第三段“PCBs...can also be found in some fish.These dangerous man­made chemicals were used in many industries until 1977”可知C项错误；根据文章倒数第三段“...advises that kids younger than 15 years old avoid fish that contains high levels of mercury and PCBs”可推测成年人食用含有化学物质的鱼，影响也许会小些，故D项正确。