If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion. When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she has nothing to wear.
Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste. Many women spend vast sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women who cannot afford to throw away clothing in this way, waste hours of their time altering the dresses they have. Skirts are lengthened or shortened; neck-lines are lowered or raised, and so on.
No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to
A. cost
B. appearance
C. comfort
D. suitability
Year after year a dedicated Swedish chemist worked to find a substance which, when (1) nitroglyoerine (硝化甘油), would make explosives safer to handle (2) weakening their force. He had a personal (3) scientific reason to pursue his search, because his (4) brother had been killed when a can of nitroglycerine (5) exploded. The oily liquid had been (6) for so many disasters that its (7) had finally been outlawed by many countries.
While (8) a new formula one morning, the doctor broke a test tube and gashed (划开) his finger. He was daubing (涂搽) the (9) with collodion (火棉胶), a coating solution of gun -cotton dissolved in ether- alcohol (乙醚), (10) the idea struck him - mix collodion with the nitroglycerine! (11) . was the answer. The new mixture, (12) blasting gelatine (爆胶), was not only (13) safe to handle as dynamite, but it was also one - and - a - half times more powerful! In fact, so po
A. called
B. known
C. by name
D. named
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