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Browse through the racks of dresses, skirts, and tops in almost any trendy clothing store in fashion-savvy Argentina, and whethe

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问题     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 size. The bill also addresses the related problem of so-called "tricky" labeling in which S, M, and L designations vary by brand and are smaller than international standards.
    The proposal has raised eyebrows in a historically flirtatious society skeptical of government and well known for its obsession with beauty. "Argentina has the world’s highest rates of aesthetic surgery", says Mabel Bello, founder of the Association for the Fight against Anorexia. "When you are talking about how preoccupied with beauty our society is, that is the most telling statistic".
    For experts such statistics spell futility for legal remedies. "These types of laws are not going to cause lasting changes", says Susana Saulquin, a sociologist of fashion. "A better way to address the problem is through public education that emphasizes balanced eating habits over an unrealistic ideal of beauty". Currently, companies try to preserve brand image by catering to young and extremely thin customers, but over time, she believes, a more balanced view of beauty will emerge.
    For their part, industry groups condemn the hill as overreaching state intervening. They say their business decisions are guided by consumer demand. "We are not in favor of anything that regulates the market", says Laura Codda, a representative of major clothing manufacturers. "Every clothing company has the right to make anything they can sell—any color, any sizes". She says her group is not opposed to measures that would standardize sizing, but she notes that many, if not most, clothes in Argentine stores already carry the numerical designations called for in the bill.
    If history is a guide, the fate of the proposed law is somewhat bleak. However, in 2005, the provincial government of Buenos Aires managed to pass a similar law—although the governor failed to sign it.
选项 A、Well-proportioned and full-figured.
B、Beautiful and charming.
C、Slender and tall.
D、Full-grown and healthy.
答案A
解析 本题问"curvaceous women"指哪种女人。首段第二句提到"But shops carry few—if any—options for curvaceous women"，随后谈到"go into a store and find an extra large"，而且谈到"you start to think…that you are big"，可以看出这里"curvaceous women"是指那些在人们看来稍胖，即丰满的女人。再联系curvaceous一词应该是"curve"的衍生词，可以猜出，它是指那种线条优美的女人，即身材比例匀称的女人。故"体型匀称丰满"正确。选项中"fun-figured"是体型丰满的婉转说法。美丽迷人：文中谈论的是衣服的尺码，因此这里并不涉及美丑的问题，而是胖瘦的问题。又瘦又高：文中指的是稍丰满一点的女人，而不是苗条女人。成熟健康：文中此处仅讨论女人的胖瘦与衣服尺码的关系，与成熟或者健康无关。
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