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France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to d

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问题     France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for women. Its lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways. The parliament also agreed to ban websites that "incite excessive thinness" by promoting extreme dieting.
    Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives. They suggest beauty should not be defined by looks that end up impinging on health. That’s a start. And the ban on ultra-thin models seems to go beyond protecting models from starving themselves to death—as some have done. It tells the fashion industry that it must take responsibility for the signal it sends women, especially teenage girls, about the social tape-measure they must use to determine their individual worth.
    The bans, if fully enforced, would suggest to women (and many men) that they should not let others be arbiters of their beauty. And perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.
    The French measures, however, rely too much on severe punishment to change a culture that still regards beauty as skin-deep—and bone-showing. Under the law, using a fashion model that does not meet a government-defined index of body mass could result in a $85,000 fine and six months in prison.
    The fashion industry knows it has an inherent problem in focusing on material adornment and idealized body types. In Denmark, the United States, and a few other countries, it is trying to set voluntary standards for models and fashion images that rely more on peer pressure for enforcement.
    In contrast to France’ s actions, Denmark’ s fashion industry agreed last month on rules and sanctions regarding the age, health, and other characteristics of models. The newly revised Danish Fashion Ethical Charter clearly states: "We are aware of and take responsibility for the impact the fashion industry has on body ideals, especially on young people." The charter’s main tool of enforcement is to deny access for designers and modeling agencies to Copenhagen Fashion Week (CFW), which is run by the Danish Fashion Institute. But in general it relies on a name-and-shame method of compliance.
    Relying on ethical persuasion rather than law to address the misuse of body ideals may be the best step. Even better would be to help elevate notions of beauty beyond the material standards of a particular industry.
The phrase "impinging on" (Line 2, Para. 2) is closest in meaning to
选项 A、heightening the value of.
B、indicating the state of.
C、losing faith in.
D、doing harm to.
答案D
解析 含义题。根据关键词“impinging on”定位到第二段。第四句开头的And是逻辑关系词，表示前后并列。And之后指出“对过于瘦弱的模特的禁令，似乎保护的不仅仅是模特免于被饿死”，再结合本段第二句推断出，划线词组所在的句子也是积极正面的作用。再结合第二句的not可知，impinging on对health是“有害的，不利的”，故选D项doing harm to“损害；伤害；对…有害”为正确答案。A项“增加…的价值”、B项“揭示…的状态”和C项“失去信心”均不能解释impinging on。
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