Like it or hate it, when Kim Kardashian wears something, people take notice. With the reality TV star wearing secondhand Azzedine Alaïa to Paris fashion week, secondhand Jean Paul Gaultier to a party and a secondhand 1990s Thierry Mugler gown to an award ceremony, it __________ change is happening. Who would have thought that Kardashian – a woman worth $350m (£270m)– would be making a case for sustainable fashion?
As consumers become increasingly aware of the _____________ impact of fashion, they are looking for a more sustainable way to shop. Could ____________ secondhand be the answer?
Vintage(经典复古风格), it seems, is increasingly ____________. High-end boutique Browns has also just launched the label One Vintage, which uses antique textiles to create new clothes. Octavia Bradford, the womenswear buyer for Browns, says: “____________ is the loudest conversation in fashion right now.”
A study shows that, last year, 64% of women were willing to buy pre-owned pieces compared with 45% in 2016 – and ____________, by 2028 13% of the clothes in women’s wardrobes will be secondhand. Fashion circularity, a new term referring to the recycled life of clothes, is __________ to reach $51bn in five years, up from the current $24bn, according to ThredUp’s annual resale report.
Stella McClure, the founder of the online shop The Stellar Boutique, has noticed a __________. When she opened 20 years ago “there was still a __________ attached. But now (thankfully) The Stellar Boutique is not just acceptable – it’s cool and has completely __________ the fashion trends,” she says.
Aside from an increased __________ of sustainability, vintage fashion fits neatly into the wider mood of the Instagram age, where authenticity and originality – not being seen in the same outfit as anyone else – are __________. What better ways to stand out than to wear clothes few others are likely to own?
Not __________ to sit back and watch others profit from their vintage items, some luxury labels are relaunching decades-old designs from their own archives. Last year, ___________, Dior brought back its saddle bag because of the attention it was getting in the vintage fashion market. However, for some, buying vintage will never feel quite right. “It’s really not my bag,” says Bates.
There are obvious ____________ – sizing isn’t uniform, and, she says: “You have to be so careful to look for holes and rips.”
1.A.suggests B.maintains C.calculates D.advocates
2.A.cultural B.historical C.environmental D.emotional
3.A.distributing B.buying C.controlling D.decreasing
4.A.in fashion B.in effect C.out of date D.under control
5.A.Originality B.Technology C.Profit D.Sustainability
6.A.legally B.appropriately C.likely D.luckily
7.A.required B.projected C.guaranteed D.warned
8.A.symptom B.field C.tradition D.shift
9.A.right B.label C.shame D.price
10.A.broken B.defined C.captured D.challenged
11.A.potential B.awareness C.lack D.power
12.A.reversed B.questioned C.ensured D.valued
13.A.considerate B.content C.stressful D.adventurous
14.A.for instance B.as a result C.by contrast D.in addition
15.A.expectations B.policies C.traps D.reminders
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
About 100 years ago, one of the founders of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure, wrote that the relationship 1. the sounds we make and the concepts they express are arbitrary(任意的，随意的). Many have long agreed. But now the inherent(内在的) randomness of human language 2.(challenge) by a large new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 3. analyzed 100 basic words in 3,700 languages around the world. In short: Certain words tend to contain or omit certain sounds in a significant number of these languages, and the consistency is “stronger than we’d expect by chance.” The team of physicists, linguists, and computer scientists from the US, Argentina and Europe took a “big data approach” to sixty two percent of the world’s languages. And one of 4. tells the Washington Post.
Among their many findings is 5. the word for nose contains the sound “n” in more than 1,400 languages, 6. (range) from “nev” in Icelandic and “hana” in Japanese to “kon” in Sar and “naris” in Spanish. Ditto(同上，同前) the sound “s” in sand. The researchers don’t yet know why, although they’ve ruled out the idea of there 7.(be) one original language. It’s not the first study 8.(suggest) a biological basis for the sounds we appoint to objects ---- something 9.(call) the “bouba/kiki” effect dates back to 1929, suggesting that most humans think the fake word “bouba” sounds like a rounded shape while the fake word “kiki” sounds spiky(带尖刺的). A separate researcher tells the Telegraph that some words may date back from 10. babies can first say, such as “mama”, but says the study “looked at too few words to make any firm conclusions.”
假定你是李华，你校外教Smith非常喜欢中国绘画，请你根据以下信息，给他写封信，告诉他近期将要举办的一个画展，并建议他去参观。
1. 时间：2月1日到15日；
2. 地点；八大山人美术馆；
3. 地址；南昌市青云谱路269号；
4. 内容：八大山人100多幅绘画作品；
5. 画家简介：中国17世纪伟大艺术家，擅长绘画，书法，尤其在山水画方面卓有成就。其作品个性鲜明，并对后世画家有深远影响。
注意：1. 词数：100左右。
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3. 参考词汇：展览：exhibition；美术馆：gallery；山水画：landscape painting；书法：calligraphy
Dear Smith,
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Yours
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2）只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
It was raining light when I got up yesterday. After a quick breakfast, I took a umbrella with me and went to school in a hurry. It was fifteen minutes after school began. I was running quickly when I see an old man walking slowly in the rain. I stopped, wondered whether to help him or not, as I might be late for school. Then I made a decision walk him home. About ten minutes late, we arrived at his house. He thanked for me again and again. I smiled and said it was nothing. I was late when I got to school. Hearing my story, the head teacher, that was giving his lecture, praised me before all the student.
根据句子意思和所给单词，在横线上写出英语单词的完整、正确形式，使句意通顺。
The computer began as a calculating machine in France in 1642. But it developed very slowly and it took nearly 200 years 1. it was built as an analytical machine that could think 2.(logical) and produce an answer quicker than any person, 3. at that time was considered a technological revolution. Later, the universal machine was built to solve mathematical problems. Over time the computer 4.(make) smaller, quicker and cleverer. In the early 1960s, computers were connected by the network and brought into ordinary people’s homes to deal 5. information and help communication between people around the world. Since the 1970s, many new 6.(apply) have been found for the computer. It has even been put into space rockets and sent 7.(explore) the moon and Mars. 8., its goal is to provide humans with a life of high quality.
Since 9. birth, the computer has always been designed to be a 10. (devote) friend and helper of the human race.
The _____ flight CA9525 for 11:30 am is to be put off due to the stormy weather.
A.regular B.formal C.common D.usual
