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  3. If women are mercilessly (无情地) exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the though

If women are mercilessly (无情地) exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the though

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问题     If women are mercilessly (无情地) 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 store.
    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 society. Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and durability. They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, as long as they look right. There can hardly be a man who hasn’t at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin dress on a winter day, or delicately picking her way through deep snow in high-heeled shoes.
    When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion, the conclusions to be drawn are obvious. Do the constantly changing fashions of women’s clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities of inconstancy (反复无常) and instability? Men are too clever to let themselves be cheated by fashion designers. Do their unchanging styles of dress reflect basic qualities of stability and reliability? That is for you to decide.
To the writer, the fact that women alter their old-fashioned dresses is seen as______.
选项 A、a waste of money
B、a wasted of time
C、an expression of taste
D、an expression of creativity
答案B
解析 第二段第一句是该段的主题句，表明：“妇女改换衣服只不过是一种浪费，……”。第二句和第三句介绍了两种浪费的情况即有钱者买新衣，无钱者花时间修改旧衣。B项与该内容相符。因此，B项是正确答案。
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