首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
With increasing prosperity, Western European youth is having a fling that is creating distinctive consumer and cultural patterns
With increasing prosperity, Western European youth is having a fling that is creating distinctive consumer and cultural patterns
admin
2014-12-18
30
问题
With increasing prosperity, Western European youth is having a fling that is creating distinctive consumer and cultural patterns.
The result has been the increasing emergence in Europe of that phenomenon well known in America as the "youth market." This is a market in which enterprising businesses cater to the demands of teenagers and older youths in all their rock mania and pop-art forms.
In Western Europe, the youth market may appropriately be said to be in its infancy. In some countries such as Britain, West Germany and France, it is more advanced than in others. Some manifestations of the market, chiefly sociological, have been recorded, but it is only just beginning to be the subject of organized consumer research and promotion.
Characteristics of evolving European youth market indicate dissimilarities as well as similarities to the American youth market.
The similarities:
The market’s basis is essentially the same—more spending power and freedom to use it in the hands of teenagers and older youth Young consumers also make up an increasingly high proportion of the population.
As in the United States, youthful tastes in Europe extend over a similar range of products—records, leather jackets and "way-out", extravagantly styled clothing, cosmetics and soft drinks. Generally it now is difficult to tell in which direction trans-Atlantic teenage influences are flowing.
Also, a pattern of conformity dominates Europe youth as in this country, though in Britain the object is to wear clothes that "make the wearer stand out," but also make him "in," such as tight trousers and precisely tailored jackets.
Worship and emulation of "idols" in the entertainment field, especially the "pop" singers and other performers is pervasive. There’s also the same exuberance and unpredictability in sudden fad switches. In Paris, buyers of stores catering to the youth market carefully watch what dress is being worn by a popular television teenage singer to be ready for a sudden demand for copies. In Stockholm other followers of teenage fads call the youth market "attractive but irrational."
The most obvious differences between the youth market in Europe and that in the United States is in size. In terms of volume and variety sales, the market in Europe is only a shadow of its American counterpart, but it is a growing shadow.
The author mentions the Paris and the Stockholm examples to illustrate ______.
选项
A、the prosperity of the youth market
B、the craziness of the fashion followers
C、the unpredictable change of fashion
D、the popularity of the fashion idols
答案
C
解析
关于巴黎和斯德哥尔摩的句子出现在倒数第2段末,都是支持该段第2句观点的例子,C是对第2句后半部分的近义改写,因此是本题答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Ocm7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Atthebeginningofthe19thcentury.B、Atthelateof18thcentury.C、Atthebeginningofthe18thcentury.D、Inthemiddleo
Weallhaveregrets,butnewresearchsuggeststhemostcommonregretamongAmericanadultsinvolvesalostromanticopportunity
Inrecentyears,researcheshavesuggestedmorehealthvaluefromvitaminDthanhadoncebeenthought.VitaminDis【C1】____
Inrecentyears,researcheshavesuggestedmorehealthvaluefromvitaminDthanhadoncebeenthought.VitaminDis【C1】____
A、Functionalandbeautifulbuildings.B、Buildingsthatcanshelterfrombadweather.C、Buildingsthatcansatisfypeople’saesth
A、Itisoutofworkagain.B、It’saveryold-stylemobilephone.C、Itcoststhewoman$50.D、Itcan’ttellthecorrecttime.A推
A、Difficult.B、Easy.C、Sad.D、Worrying.A事实细节题。女士问男士就卡塔尔赢得世界杯主办权的看法时,男士回答说赢得世界杯主办权是一件很难的事情,因为美国是一个强劲的对手。
Go(围棋)isanancientAsiangame.Inrecentyears,computerexperts,particularlythose【C1】______inartificialintelligence,have
Themost【B1】______problemcreatedbytherapidincreaseinpopulationisa【B2】______offood.Moremouthshavetobe【B3】______eve
随机试题
Televisionhasopenedwindowsineverybody’slife.Youngmenwillneveragaingotowarastheydidin1914.Millionsofpeople
患者,男,42岁。中风后肢体活动不灵,饮水试验时30ml水分3次以上喝完,有呛咳,反复发热,患者发音不清,口语表达障碍,不能复述和书写,听理解较好。既可以训练吞咽又能有改善言语障碍的训练是
斯展综合征的临床特征为
如果两个变量之间的内在关系是非线性关系,我们可以把一个非线性关系转化为线性回归关系。()
基金上市期间出现下列()情形时,会导致基金终止上市。
正态均值μ的无偏估计有()。
①从现在数据看,煤在我国的可开采量及供应年限远远大于石油②随着我国经济的快速发展,国内能源消费需求量越来越大③基于这样一些认识,人们开始研究各种转化方式,间接液化技术就是其中较为有效的方法之一④我国对石油进口的依存度较大⑤国际油价上涨、中东政局变化
设总体X的概率密度为其中θ>0是未知参数.从总体X中抽取简单随机样本X1,X2,…,Xn,记=min(X1,X2,…,Xn).(1)求总体X的分布函数F(χ);(2)求统计量的分布函数(χ);(3)如果用作为θ的估
Americandoctorssaythatmotherssmokebeforetheir【S1】______babiesarebornmayslowthegrowthoftheirbabies
Ialwayspreferstartingearly,ratherthan(leave)______everythingtothelastminute.
最新回复
(
0
)