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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.

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【答案】

【1】easy

【2】different

【3】influence

【4】Suggestions

【5】healthily

【解析】

本文是一篇議論文，主要談論美。首先，談論什么是美，美沒有統(tǒng)一的標準。其次，談論影響美的社會因素，第三，對于怎樣看待美，作者給出了建議。

【1】句意：回答這個問題不容易。根據(jù)第一段第一句What do you think being beauty really means? All answers to that question are correct, because there are no right or wrong replies.（你認為美到底是什么？這個問題的所有答案都是正確的，因為沒有正確或錯誤的答案。）可知“回答這個問題不容易�！苯Y(jié)合句意可知答案是easy 。

【2】句意：人們對美有不同的看法。根據(jù)第1段第5句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.（想一想：你認為某人真的很漂亮，但你的朋友沒有看到嗎？這是因為對一個人有吸引力的東西不一定對另一個人有吸引力。）可知“人們對美有不同的看法�！苯Y(jié)合句意可知答案是different 。

【3】句意：減肥公司和服裝行業(yè)會影響我們對的看法，目的是為了美容產(chǎn)品銷售。根據(jù)第2段第2句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.（減肥公司和服裝行業(yè)似乎已經(jīng)把讓我們相信我們不夠美麗定為他們的目標，我們需要各種各樣的東西變得更漂亮。）可知“減肥公司和服裝行業(yè)會影響我們對的看法，目的是為了美容產(chǎn)品銷售。” 結(jié)合句意可知答案是influence 。

【4】句意：建議。根據(jù)右邊表格“1.人有不同的體型，我們每個人都有自己的美。2.減肥沒關(guān)系，但記住要健康。3.你必須接受你現(xiàn)在的樣子，花時間和那些不要求你改變你外表的人在一起。”可知是“建議”�？蓴�(shù)名詞要使用復數(shù)，表示泛指，可數(shù)名詞單數(shù)不可單獨使用；結(jié)合句意可知答案是Suggestions 。

【5】句意：減肥沒關(guān)系，但記住要健康。根據(jù)第3段第4句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.（如果你想減肥，那就去做吧，但是要以健康的方式去做，而且要做的理由是正確的，而不是因為你隨波逐流。）可知“減肥沒關(guān)系，但記住要健康。” 本詞修飾動詞do可知填副詞。in a healthy way副詞短語，等于healthily。結(jié)合句意可知答案是healthily。

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