For most people, the word “fashion” means “clothes”. But people may ask the question, “What clothes are in fashion?” And they use the word “fashionable” in the same way: “She was wearing a fashionable coat. His shirt was really a fashionable colour.”
But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs… and in languages.
Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.
Today fashions change quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspapers, radios, telephones and televisions send information from one country to another in a few hours.
New fashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion.
1.Most people think that “fashion” means ________.
A. books B. clothes C. holidays
2.By _______ we can see that fashions change as time goes.
A. wearing a fashionable coat B. eating in a new restaurant
C. looking at pictures of people
3.In the 4th paragraph the writer mentions _______ kinds of ways to send information.
A. three B. four C. five
4.“There is money in fashion.” means ______.
A. people like fashion and money
B. fashionable things are expensive
C. one can make money through fashion
5.The passage is mainly about _____.
A. the changes of fashion B. the kinds of fashions C. the money in fashion
1.B 2.C 3.B 4.C 5.A 【解析】试题这篇短文主要告诉我们时尚一直在变化，分析了时尚的变化，指出对于某些人来说，时尚就意味着花钱。 1.题意：大多数人认为“时尚”是指“ ”。考查细节理解题。根据For most people, the word "fashion" means "clothes".，可知大部分人认为时尚就意味着穿衣。故选B。 ...
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1.A. weeks B. months C. years
2.A. old B. new C. open
3.A. because B. before C. after
4.A. couldn’t B. mustn’t C. needn’t
5.A. talk to B. ask for C. worry about
6.A. happily B. unhappily C. loudly
7.A. a girl B. a boy C. a friend
8.A. into B. like C. at
9.A. family B. class C. city
10.A. sadness B. life C. smile
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A. I hope not B. That’s OK C. It doesn’t matter
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1.A. her B. my C. your D. his
2.A. harder B. easier C. better D. later
3.A. slowly B. quickly C. sadly D. happily
4.A. answer B. subject C. problem D. question
5.A. except B. beside C. from D. with
6.A. listening B. speaking C. reading D. singing
7.A. mouths B. eyes C. minds D. hearts
8.A. But B. So C. And D. Or
9.A. play B. practice C. write D. watch
10.A. reports B. keeps C. hears D. makes
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When a language dies, a lot of knowledge dies with it. To begin with, language is a huge part of the culture of the people who speak it. Language allows speakers to say certain things: words that describe a cultural idea may not translate exactly into another language. Furthermore, many endangered languages have rich spoken cultures, Stories, songs and histories are passed on from older people to younger generations(一代), Elizabeth Lindsey, an expert in languages, emphasizes(强调) this. “When an elder dies, a library is burned,” she says.
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1.How many reasons are mentioned for endangered languages in Paragraph 1?
A. 2 B. 3. C. 4 D. 5.
2.In Paragraph 2, the writer mainly tells us_____.
A. how cultures are passed on B. how cultures are discovered
C. why languages are written down D. why languages are important to cultures
3.The underlined word "affects" in the passage means “_______”.
A. waits for B. depends on
C. is different from D. has an influence on
4.Which of the following is the writer's opinion?
A. People need to use common languages more often.
B. The spoken word is more important than the written word.
C. Children are the hope to stop the local language from dying.
D. Many animals and plants are in danger because of dying languages.
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