D

[解析] 1-3
M: Have you seen my glasses? I can't find them anywhere.
W: Go into the bathroom and look in the mirror.
M: You mean I've got them on. How about that?
W: You're the most absent-minded person I've ever known.
M: I can't deny it. I'd lose my head if it weren't attached to my shoulders.
W: I'll never forget the time you went fishing and forgot to take your rod and reel.
M: I won't forget it either, but that's not the most memorable example of my forgetfulness.
W: How about the time you started to leave without having any pants on?
M: No, that's not it.
W: It couldn't be forgetting your wallet. You've done that a hundred times. I'm tired of guessing, tell me.
M: You never would have guessed. I don't believe I've ever told you about it though you were indirectly affect ed by the incident. I almost married my college sweetheart.
W: You're right. You've never told me about her.
M: Well, anyway, the day we were supposed to get married was such a beautiful day that I forgot all about the wedding and went fishing instead. The girl never forgave me.
W: I hardly blame her, though I'm glad things turned out differently.

D

B

A

[解析] 4-7
W: Tom, do you know why Britain is separated from the continent?
M: No. But I guess millions of years ago Britain was also a part of the Continent.
W: You are right. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at the end of the Ice Age, a great flood washed over a wide, low plain, and created the English Channel. From then on, the island of Britain was isolated from the rest of Europe.
M: I know there have been many people who have wanted to swim across the Channel, and some of them have succeeded.
W: What's more, quite a lot of people have thought of building a channel tunnel since the 18th century, but no one thought this dream would come true. Now, however, the channel tunnel, the longest underwater pas- sage on the earth, has been built.
M: When was it built?
W: A British team started to drill southeast from Dover and a French team started to drill northwest from San gatte in 1987. The two teams met under the channel in December 1990, and they celebrated the completion of the 23-mile shaft.
M: Was it opened to the public immediately?
W: No. The tunnel was opened to the public in 1993 and now it is able to carry up to 30 million passengers a year.

C

B

D

D

[解析] 8-10
W: Have you ever looked really closely at the snowflake?
M: Sure. But they usually melt too fast for me to get a close look. Why do you ask?
W: I'm just curious. I was reading an article about the formation of snowflakes and I realized that I had never paid much attention to them before.
M: Well, there's a big variety, isn't there?
W: Yeah. But they all have one of three basic forms, hexagonal columns, hexagonal plates, and branching star-shaped form.
M: I wonder why the forms are different. Maybe because ice starts to form on dust particles with different shapes.
W: Well, I thought it might have something to do with the Water saturation of the air, but we were both wrong. The author of this article did extensive research and concluded that the shape of snow crystals is largely controlled by the temperature of the air. For example, the feathery star-shaped snowflake that everyone thinks is typical occurs only at a specific temperature.
M: Doesn't the relative humidity have anything to do with the shapes?
W: Apparently not. The effective super-saturation is simply to alter growth rate. The greater use the saturation, the faster the snowflakes form.
M: Mm. next time it snows, I'll make a point of taking a closer look.

C

C

B

[解析] 11-13
   The Stone Age was a period of history which began in approximately 2 million B.C. and lasted until 3000 B, C. Its name was derived from the atone tools and weapons that modern scientists found. This period was divided into Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Ages. During the first period (2 million to 8000 B. C. ), the first hatchet and use of fire for heating and cooking were developed. As a result of the Ice Age, which evolved about 1 million years into the Paleolithic Age, people were forced to seek shelter in caves, wear clothing and developed new tools.
   During the Mesolithic Age (8000 to 6000 B. C. ) people made crude pottery and the first fish hooks, took dogs hunting, and developed a bow and arrow which was used until the fourteenth century A. D.
   The Neolithic Age (6000 to 3000 B. C. ) saw humankind domesticating sheep, goats, pigs, ,and cattle, being less nomadic than in: previous eras. establishing permanent settlements and creating government.

A

D

B

[解析] 14-17
   At the beginning of the twentieth century, many people thought that the American family was falling apart--in other words, they thought it was dying. A century later, we know that this was not the case. However. although the family is still alive in the United States, its size and shape are very different from 100 years ago.
   In the late 1800s and early 1900s there were mainly two types of families in the United States: the extended and the nuclear. The extended family usually includes grandparents, parents, and children living under the same roof. The nuclear family consists of only parents and children. As people began to move to other parts of the country to find better jobs, the nuclear family became the most common family structure, or unit.
   Today there are many different kinds of families. Some people live in "traditional" families, that is, a stay home mother, a working father, and their own biological children. Others tire in two-paycheck families (where both parents work outside the home), single-parent families (a mother or father living with the children), adoptive or foster families (where adults take care of children that are not biologically theirs), blended families (where men and women who were married before marry again and combine the children from previous marriages into new families), childless families, and so on.

B

B

D

D

[解析] 18-20
   An election year is one in which all four numbers are evenly divided by four (1944, 1940, etc. ),. Since 1840, American presidents elected in years ending in zero have been destined to die in office. William H. Harrison, the man who served the shortest term, died of pneumonia several weeks after his inauguration. Abraham Lincoln was one of the four presidents who were assassinated. He was elected in t860, and ?!is untimely death came just five years later. James A. Garfield, a former Union Army general from Ohio, was shot during his first year in office (1881) by a man to whom he wouldn't give a job. While in his second term of office (1901), William Mckinley, another Ohioan, attended the Pan-American Exposition at Baffalo, New York. During the reception, he was assassinated while shaking hands with some of the guests. Three years later after his election in 1920, Warren G. Harding died in office. Although it was never proved, many believe he was poisoned. Franklin D. Roosevelt had been elected four times (1912, 1936, 1940 and 1944), the only man to serve so long a term. He had contracted polio in 1921 and died of the illness in 1945. John F. Kennedy, the last of the line, was assassinated in 1963, only three years after his election.

D

A

D

[解析] 21-23
   Four people were killed and more than 50 injured when fans rushed to get into a stadium in Chicago yester day where the British pop group Fantasy were giving a concert. The incident occurred when gates were opened to admit a huge crowd of young people waiting outside the stadium for the sale of tickets unreserved. People were knocked over in the rush and trampled underfoot as the crowd surged forward. The concert later went a head as planned with Fantasy unaware of the accident. A police spokesman said that they had decided to allow the concert to proceed in order to avoid further trouble.

B

A

C

[解析] 24-25
   The Western Europe Union, the defense organization linking most countries of the European Community, is meeting in Luxemburg to discuss ways to reinforce economic sanctions against the Serbs by tightening controls on the River Danube. It is expected to approve of a proposal to send patrol boats manned by armed police and customs officers with power to search and turn back ships suspected of breaking the sanctions. International efforts to isolate Serbia have been undermined by ships carrying oil and other illegal supplies from the Black Sea region along the Danube into former Yugoslavia after ignoring attempts by the local authorities to stop them.

A

A

[解析] 27-29
   One of the main complaints of city residents, surprisingly, is the number of stray dogs and cats roaming the streets. It has been estimated by Friends of Animals, Inc. , a nationwide agency, that over 30 million dogs and cats are wandering through the streets and alleyways of the nation's cities. Each year, approximately a fifth of these animals are destroyed.
   A survey of 41 cities by Friends of Animals reports that as much as 15 million dollar is spent annually to capture and kill strays. One city alone, Chicago, spends $1 million a year to control its animal population.
   New York, on the other hand, which spends large amounts of money in other programs, does not give appropriate tax money to animal control. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a non-governmental agency, deals wit the problem in New York.

D

B

B

此题考查动词的用法。该句的意思是“做梦也没有想到自己13岁的儿子在吸毒”。表达“从来就没有想像过”，英文可以用动词dream，也可以用think。但是用后者时，要使用完成形式，例如：I have never thought that I would be a teacher．所以，这里只能选B项dreamed。

C

此题考查介词短语的用法。be on drugs是固定说法，意思是use illegal drugs regularly。其中的介词只能用on。而且也请大家注意，其中的名词也一定要用复数drugs。故C项符合题意。

A

此题考查短语动词的用法。这句话的意思是“一周用完3到4瓶空气清新剂”。所以，就可以排除 buying和purchasing的可能性。汉语中我们说“一周买3到4瓶”，有时候大概指“用完”之义，但英文 buy和purchase没有这个含义。动词experience常常和war，fast economic growth，a difficult period等搭配，表示“经历”之义。而go through虽然也有“经历(痛苦/灾难)”之义，但却还有“用光”的意思，例如：We went through all our money in a week．所以，只有A项符合题意。

C

此题考查同义词用法辨析。A项as，B项being和C项like在语法上看，都可以用在这个位置上。但是，as和being的意思是“是什么”，指客观事实，例如：As/Being a student，you have to do the assignments．但是，like则指的是“像”，是比喻性用法，不指客观事实。这里，男孩子的母亲显然是在说自己“像一个傻瓜”，绝对不会承认自己“就是一个傻瓜”。故C项符合题意。

D

此题考查名词词义辨析。孩子使用空气清新剂，母亲不会觉得这和personal development(个人发展)， personal character(个人性格)，personal belongings(个人用品)有关。所以，很自然的想法是孩子现在注意“个人卫生”(personal hygiene)了。所以，只有D项符合题意。

A

此题考查名词用法。这四个词中solution(溶液)虽然看似正确答案，但其真正含义却是a liquid mixed with a solid or gas，所以不可以用在这里。D项solvent是“溶剂”，用于稀释其他液体或固体，C项liquor则是alcoholic drink，两者均不合题意。A项contents指的是某物中盛装的东西，所以为正确答案。

C

此题考查名词用法。从这里所谈的内容可以看出，到妈妈发现孩子吸毒的时候，问题已经很严重了： smoking pot，using acid and crystal met amphetamine，drinking alcohol，and snorting cocaine。所以这里应该选择表示一段时间的状语by the time。

C

此题考查动词搭配。首先，“吸毒”英文不可以说breathe drugs。其他三个选项abuse，try和use都可以和drugs搭配。但是，考虑到这个结构是warn sb. not to do sth，选项C最合适，即“警告某人不要去尝试毒品”或者“远离毒品”。

B

此题考查名词用法。很显然，这里说的就是“新闻调查”。但其英文对应词是investigation，poll，statistics，还是announcement?具体的搭配是poll。不知道这个搭配其实也不要紧，在这篇文章最后，我们看到有这样的说法：vote of confidence from 63 percent of the teens polled by U．S．News。由此就可以看出要选B项poll了。所以，作完形填空的时候，我们要常常联系前后文，这一点很重要。

D

此题考查形容词用法。这个题要从语义上去推断，经常跟孩子谈论毒品危害性的父母会怎么样呢?看看下面一句中的不少父母都认为他们talk about drugs“a lot”。所以，家长不会是right或wrong，更不能是sure，而是can be mistaken(搞错)：误以为经常跟孩子谈论该话题孩子就不会去吸毒。故D项符合题意。

D

此题考查数词的表达法。这里显然是一个比例数字，即三分之一。英文中表示比例的说法介词可以用in和out of。例如“三分之二”就是two in three或者two out of three。当然，也可以按传统说two thirds。所以，只有D项符合题意。

A

此题考查名词用法。这里的含义应该是一个中性的名词，即“(毒品这个)话题”，因为在发现孩子吸毒之前或者对大部分不吸毒的孩子来说，这不会是problem或者question。当然，对政府和社会来讲，吸毒现在已经是一个很严重的problem或者有待解决的question或者issue。由此可见，A项符合题意。

B

此题考查形容词用法。家长和孩子之间的交流不畅，会有什么样的后果呢?这就是我们这里需要填入的形容词的含义。当然，direct consequence，immediate consequence，甚至natural consequence都是合理的英文搭配。但是，稍加分析我们就可以看到，这一句应该是这一个段落的topic sentence。这样我们就有必要再去看看其后面的supporting sentences的内容。结果发现下面的主要内容是在说家庭毒品教育的重要性。那么，交流不畅就会有很“严重的”后果，这就是dire一词的含义。

A

此题考查介词的用法。这句话的含义是：the Partnership for a Drug-Free America作了一个调查(survey)。所以说介词应该选A项by。

B

此题考查动词的用法。这个题比较简单，我们只要看到四个选项中只有B项receive可以和messages搭配，就可以判断出正确答案应该是B。我们只能receive a message，不可能accept a message。C项。 inform后面要用人作宾语：inform sb of/about sth。D项learn sth的意思是“听说”，但在家中谈论毒品话题是关注其内容，而不是“听说”有某事。故B项符合题意。

D

此题考查副词的用法。只要看到这里存在一个比较的问题，即把在家中接受反毒品教育舶孩子和没有在家中接受教育的孩子作比较，就可以断定这里要用D项less likely，因此其他三个选项都不是比较级。另外该句的主语teens who received anti-drug messages at home也告诉我们这里不可能使用B项likely。C项dislikely是一个生造词，根本不存在。所以，只有D项符合题意。

B

此题考查形容词的用法。作完形填空题，我们要经常联系前后文，因为很多时候答案就隐藏在上下文中。在这个题中，我们很难说出建议家长在家中进行反毒品教育的做法“看上去”是一个good advice还是一个bad advice。但看到后面句子中的hard numbers一个搭配，再加上表示“其实不然”的sound like，就可以断定这里应该选hard的反义词，即B项soft。当然，别人(譬如反毒品组织)的建议不会是 parental advice。

A

该题考查的是形容词最高级的修饰语。我们知道，far和much常用来修饰形容词比较级，例如： much/far more important。C项by far是可以用来修饰最高级的，但其位置要放在the的前面，例如： This is by far the most common snake．由此可见，这里应该选用A项single。single常常用来修饰形容词最高级。例如：Cigarette smoking is the single most important cause of lung cancer．故A项符合题意。

C

该题考查的是名词的修饰语。vote常常用一个数字表示，所以这里应该用the highest来修饰。当然，我们同时要注意到，这里的vote用的是单数；如果用了复数，就表示投出的“票”，那这里就可以使用B项the most了。

B

该题考查的是非谓语动词的用法。这里说到是投票的人数多少，应该选用B项outnumbering(在人数上超出)。A项outrank一般指在级别、地位或者重要性上“超出”，而D项outperform指在性能上“超出”，C项outweigh指在重要性或者价值上“超出”。故B项符合题意。

D

细节理解题。本题询问的是在人才市场，为什么一些求职者会被拒绝。文章第一句是全文的中心句，提醒人们能够并且应该注意细节尤其是在竞争激烈的人才市场。第一和第二段中人才资源专家告诉我们“It’s amazing how many candidates eliminate themselves...Resumes arrive with stains．Some candidates don't bother to spell the company's name correctly．Once l see a mistake，I eliminate the candidate...if they cannot take care of these details，why should we trust them with a job．”，这就说明由于求职者马马虎虎，不拘小节，简历上墨迹斑斑，或把求职单位的名字拼错，使得他们不能被用人单位录用。故选项D“因为他们马马虎虎，连一张简历表的表面都不能保持整洁”为正确答案。文章第一段最后一句话尽管提到“many candidates eliminate themselves”，但并不是说他们自己从求职者的名单上把自己的名字抹去，而是说由于他们不拘细节，马马虎虎，使得自己失去了求职的机会，所以选项 A不是正确答案。文章第二段虽然提到他们把用人单位的名字拼错，并不是说他们所受的教育不够以至于不能把名字拼对，而是因为这些人不拘小节，他们“怕麻烦，不愿费心去正确地拼出公司的名称”，故选项B也不是正确答案。选项C“因为他们未能在求职表中详细地介绍自己的经历和背景”在本文中并未涉及到。

A

词汇猜测题。本题需要从perfectionists一词所出现的上下文中推断出它的意思。文章第三段开始一句就指出“Can we pay too much attention to details? Absolutely．”然后作者举例指出perfectionists是那些为小事操劳，但却以牺牲工作中重要事情为代价的人。意思即perfectionists是那些过分注意细节而丢失了大目标的人，故选项A为正确答案。选项B不是正确答案是因为“知道怎样根据环境变化调整自己目标的人”正好与第三段内容相反。选项C“要求他人把每件事都做得完美无缺的人”和D“无论做什么都能达到完美结果的人”都是基于perfectionists一词的基本意义，只是脱离文章内容的凭空猜测，故选项C和D都不是正确答案。

D

主旨判断题。本题需要根据文章内容判断推理出作者通过本文要向读者传递什么信息。在文章的第一和第二段作者引用人才资源专家的话说明了小事的重要性。然后，又在文章的第三和第四段通过科学家的话说明注重小事并不能以牺牲大目标为代价，同时，为了使小事能适合于全局或大目标，我们还要不时地做些调整。最后一段中作者又再次强调了小事的重要性：只有做好小事，你才能得到颇丰的收获。由此可见，作者要告诉读者的是，虽然注意小事可能要付出代价，但小事不可忽视，所以选项D为正确答案。选项A“粗心大意的求职者不可用”是第一和第二段中的具体事例。选项B“画画时不要忘了细节”是对文章的误解，因为文章第三段Garfield谈到的“... we're working on fit into the larger picture”中的“larger picture”意为“更大的画面”，即指“全局”，并不是指实际的“画”，所以选项B不是正确答案。选项C“做事前注意到所做的每件事的重要性”在文中并未提及。

B

推理题。本题需要弄清作者引用Aopollo登月事例的目的。文章第四段Garfield说，90%的时间里Aopollo都微微偏离轨道，而最终仍可顺利到达月球，这是因为不断地根据目标做了必要的调整，是因为“Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake．”这说明做好小事，做好调整能促使大目标的实现。同时，也说明明确了大目标有助于判断我们所做的事情的重要性，因此选项B46明确了大目标有助于判断哪些细节可忽略”是正确答案。选项A“在实现大目标的过程中小错误可以忽略不计”违背了本文的主题思想，因此A不是正确答案。选项C提到“调整是胜利完成工作的关键”，这是脱离了全文内容孤立地看问题。Aopollo例子是用来说明文章中心“只有实现了调整，即做好了小事，才能保证大目标的实现”，故选项C只是片面的看法。选项D“失败乃成功之母”直接脱离了文章的内容与主题，也不是正确答案。

B

主旨判断题。本题要求根据文章内容给本文定一个题目，实际是在问文章的主题是什么。文章第一和第二段中作者引用了人才资源专家的话说明了小事的重要性。接着在第三和第四段作者又通过引用科学家的话说明小事与大事间相辅相成的辩证关系，最后在文章的结尾作者再一次强调了做好每一件小事的重要性。因此本文谈论的主要是小事与实现大目标的关系。故选项B为正确答案。文章第三段第三句“Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work to ward．”虽然对perfectionists以牺牲大事为代价注重小事的做法进行了否定，但作者提到此事的目的是为了说明注重小事要以实现大目标为依据，而不是仅就perfectionists一事发表议论，所以选项A不能概括文章主题，不是正确答案。文章尽管提到了adjustments的重要性，但整篇文章并不是泛泛而论“调整的重要性”，故选项C不是正确答案。选项D“努力工作加运气”是本文所未涉及到的内容，尽管文中最后一段提到lucky break(机遇)，但文中告诫大家的正是机遇并不能带来成功；做好小事，成功才会跟随而至，故选项D不是正确答案。

A

主旨判断题。本题询问的是文章的主题思想，即作者写这篇文章的目的。文章第一段指出，作者在鼓励一些想当作家的年轻人的同时也向他们指出当作家与从事写作间的天壤之别。第二段中作者首先指出“The reality is that writing is a lonely，private and poor paying affair”，然后作者以自己的亲身经历说明了写作的艰难与困苦。由此可见，作者写作本文的目的主要是“告诫年轻人一个成功的作家所要经历的艰难困苦”，故选项A为正确答案。选项B说“建议年轻人放弃成为一名职业作家的念头”，这不符合本文内容，因为文章第一段第二句话就指出“我总是鼓励这些人”故选项B不是正确答案。文章中说想成为作家的青年人是在梦想着财富与荣誉，但并没有提到作家追求名利是不现实的，所以选项C“向青年人说明作为一名作家去追求财富与荣誉是不现实的”是不正确的。虽然作者提到他总是鼓励那些想成为作家的年轻人，但文章的主旨并不是这种鼓励，而是让年轻人认识到从事写作的艰难和清贫，故选项D也不是正确答案。

D

推理题。本题要求根据文章内容判断四个选项中哪一个符合文章内容。文章中并没有提到“真正的作家经常发现自己的工作是有趣的、值得做的”，或“作家的成功依赖于运气而非努力”，所以选项A和 B均不是正确答案。文章第二段的第一句话中虽谈到了清贫和孤独，只是泛泛地说现实中的写作是孤独的、私人的及待遇微薄的事，并没有提到名作家通常过的是贫困和孤独的生活，故选项C也不是正确答案。文章第二段的第二句“For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded．”说明每一个幸运成功的作家背后还有千千万万个永远无法实现自己梦想的人，这与选项D“作家成功的机会是很少的”相符合，故选项D为正确答案。

B

要点定位题。本题询问的是为什么作者在从事写作一年后开始怀疑自己。文章第三段的第一句"Alter a year or so，however, I still hadn't gotten a break and began to doubt myself．”指出作者因为没有成功的机会而开始怀疑自己，这与选项D6他没有看到进展的机会”，相吻合，故选项B是正确答案。文章第三段第二句提到“It was so hard to sell a story”，说明作家能写出东西，而问题在于很难使自己写出的东西得以发表，故选项A“作者写不出一本书”是不符合文章内容的。选项C“整整一年他都不能休息一下”和选项D“他发现自己的梦想难以成为现实”都是本文未涉及到的内容。

B

语义理解题。本题需要根据上下文确定“people who die wondering What If?”指的是一类什么样的人。文章第三段的第五和第六句“I wasn't going to be one of those people who die wondering，What It? I would keep putting my dream to the test-even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear failure．”指出作者不想成为在临死前还在想“假如我…”的人，而是要坚持自己的理想，把自己的梦想付诸于实践，即使这意味着难以预料的前途和失败的可能。这就说明临死前还在想“假如我…”的人是那些没能坚持自己的理想，没能把梦想付诸于实践的人，即半途放弃写作生涯的人。故选项B为正。确答案。而选项A4“对生活的阴暗面想得过多的人”选项C“只想不做决定的人”及选项D“使对死都充满了幻想的人”均脱离了此句出现的上下文内容，故都不是正确答案。

C

语义推断题。本题需要根据上下文推断出所代表的含义。本文的最后两句话“I would keep putting my dream to the test-even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure．This is the Shadowland of hope，and anyone with a dream must learn to live there．”指出作者会坚持把自己的梦想付诸于实践——即使这意味着要生活在对前途的难以预料及对失败的恐惧中，这是一种充满希望的 Shadowland。由此可见，句中this指代的是living with uncertainty and fear of failure，即成功前的未来总难以确定的状态，这也正是Shadowland的所指内容，故选项C为正确答案。选项A说“人们常幻想的奇妙之境”，选项B说“人们所期盼的辉煌的未来”，选项D说“人们想像中的世界”，这些解释都脱离了Shadowland一词的上下文内容，故均不是正确答案。

B

细节理解题。由第一段第二句“Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March，the price of crude oil has jumped to almost...”可知：世界原油价格的上涨是因为OPEC决定减少供应。

D

推断题。第三段第三句话“在欧洲，油税占了汽油零售价的五分之四。”因此可推知，如果油税上涨，汽油的零售价也会随之上涨。

D

细节理解题。第四段第一句话：“经济发达国家对石油的依赖性比过去低，对油价的浮动也不怎么敏感。”接着说“最近一期的《经济了望》杂志估计：和1998年的每桶13美元相比，如果油价持续一年在 22美元左右的话，石油进口支出也只占了发达国家国内生产总值(GDP)的0.25%～0.5%”。由此可见，油价的上涨对发达国家的影响甚微。故D项正确。

A

推断题。第三段至第五段的内容表明，这次油价的上涨对全球经济影响不大，不会像1973、1979和 1980年那样，引起全球恐慌。所以，A为正确答案。

A

作者观点态度题。综观全文，结合上两题的分析，可以看出作者对这次油价上涨的影响力抱有乐观的态度。

C

作者观点题。根据第一段中“...more when we are in our tens or early twenties than at any other time in our life...few of us are content to...，and few are brave enough to...”可见作者的观点“是我们在十几岁或二十出头的时候最关心自己在别人眼中的形象，我们都对自己不太满意，都赶时髦。”我们可以发现与ABD的内容正好与此相反，所以C为正确答案。

A

要点定位题。根据第二段中第二句“If we do (dress in a certain way or behave in a certain manner)， they tell us，we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confident ly and without embarrassment”，可见fashion可以使我们信心十足。

B

要点定位题。第三段第二句指出了时尚的三个原因：convenience，practical necessity和the fancy of an influential person，可见B为正确答案。

D

在第五段中，作者指出在今天的社会里，人们在着装、发型的选择方面可以随心所欲“you can dress as you like or do your hair the way you like instead of the way you should”，由此不难看出这是“个性”使然。

A

段落主旨概括题。根据最后一段的主题句“At the same time，appearance is still important in certain circumstances and then we must choose our clothes carefully”，就可知A为正确答案。