[单项选择]Browse through the racks of dresses, skirts, and tops in almost any trendy clothing store in fashion-savvy Argentina, and whether you find something that fits depends on your size. But shops carry few -- if any -- options for curvaceous women. When you go into a store and find an extra large, you know that it is really the equivalent of a medium or even a small based on American standards. You feel frustrated because you start to think that everybody is like this, and that you are big. But that’s not true.
In this beauty-conscious nation, which has the world’s second-highest rate of anorexia, many are partially blaming the country’s clothing industry for offering only tiny sizes of the latest fashions. The result is a dangerous paradox of girls and women adapting to the clothes rather than clothes adapting to them. The Argentine legislature is considering whether to force clothing manufacturers to cover "all the anthropometric measurements of the Argentine woman" up to extra large
A. disbelieves the statistics of aesthetic surgery.
B. thinks the proposed law will work over time.
C. regards the legal remedies as inadvisable.
D. has developed good and balanced eating habits.

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Browse through the racks of dresses, skirts, and tops in almost any trendy clothing store in fashion-savvy Argentina, and whether you find something that fits depends on your size. But shops carry few -- if any -- options for curvaceous women. When you go into a store and find an extra large, you know that it is really the equivalent of a medium or even a small based on American standards. You feel frustrated because you start to think that everybody is like this, and that you are big. But that’s not true.
In this beauty-conscious nation, which has the world’s second-highest rate of anorexia, many are partially blaming the country’s clothing industry for offering only tiny sizes of the latest fashions. The result is a dangerous paradox of girls and women adapting to the clothes rather than clothes adapting to them. The Argentine legislature is considering whether to force clothing manufacturers to cover "all the anthropometric measurements of the Ar
A. Well-proportioned and full-figured.
B. Beautiful and charming.
C. Slender and tall.
D. Full-grown and healthy.

[单项选择]These three skirts have little in common in style except for the colors and patterns of the cloth（）
A. 除了布的颜色和图案相同外，这三条裙子的式样没什么相同之处。
B. 这三条裙子款式上很少相同，除了布的颜色和图案。
C. 这三条裙子除了布的颜色和图案相同之外，没什么相同。
D. 除了布的颜色和图案不同之外，这三条裙子式样也很不同。

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British women are happy nowadays to wear mini-skirts up until the age of 40, according to research by Debenhams.
Just 20 years ago, few women would dare to wear a mini-skirt after the age of 33, the store said. "It shows that women now have an increasing confidence in their bodies and are happy to dress accordingly," it added in a statement. "If this trend continues, there’s no doubt that, within the next decade, women in their mid 40s and early 50s will rightly regard a mini-skirt as an essential part of their everyday wardrobe."
The figures emerged when the store examined the latest age profile of women buying short, 36-cm skirts over the past six months. Their results show that it has jumped from an average age of 36-years-old at the start of millennium to 40 today. Figures from 1980 showed that on average women stopped buying minis when they reached 33 years old, a figure unchanged fro
A. a lot of women dared to wear mini-skirts at the age of 40
B. most women between 33 and 36 were still happy to wear mini-skirts
C. even women in their early 50s rightly regarded a mini-skirt as an essential part of their everyday wardrobe
D. most women no longer wore mini-skirts when they reach the age of 33