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  3. Over the last decade, demand for the most common cosmetic surgery procedures, like breast enlargements and nose jobs, has increa

Over the last decade, demand for the most common cosmetic surgery procedures, like breast enlargements and nose jobs, has increa

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问题     Over the last decade, demand for the most common cosmetic surgery procedures, like breast enlargements and nose jobs, has increased by mom than 400 per cent. According to Dr Dai Davies, of the Plastic Surgery Partnership in Hammersmith, the majority of cosmetic surgery fantastic lengths to improve their appearance fly a desire to look normal. "What we all crave is to look normal, and normal is what is prescribed by advertising media and other external pressures. They give us a perception of what is physically acceptable and we feel we must look like that."
    In America, the debate is no longer about whether surgery is normal; rather, it canters on what age people should be before going under the knife. New York surgeon Dr Gerard Imber recommends "maintenance" work for people in their thirties. "The idea of waiting until one needs a heroic transformation is silly," he says. "By then, you’ve wasted 20 great years of your life and allowed things to get out of hand." Dr Imber draws the line at operating on people who are under 18, however. "It seems that someone we don’t consider old enough to order a drink shouldn’t be considering plastic surgery."
    In the UK cosmetic surgery has long been seen as the exclusive domain of the very rich and famous. But the proportionate cost of treatment has fallen substantially, bringing all but the most advanced laser technology within the reach of most people. Dr Davies, Who claims to "cater for the average person", agrees. He says, "I treat a few of the rich and famous and an awful lot of secretaries. Of course, ￡3,000 for an operation is a lot of money. But it is also an investment for life which costs about half the price of a good family holiday."
    Dr Davies suspects that the increasing sophistication of the fat injecting and removal techniques that allow patients to go treated with a local anesthetic in an afternoon has also helped promote the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Yet, as one woman who recently paid ￡2,500 for liposuction (吸脂) to remove cellulite (脂肪团) from her thighs admitted, the slope to becoming a cosmetic surgery veteran is a deceptively gentle one." I had my legs done because they’d been bugging me for years. But going into the clinic was so low key (低调的,不声张的) and effective it whetted my appetite. Now I don’t think there’s any operation that I would rule out having in could afford it."
All of the following is true of cosmetic surgery EXCEPT______.
选项 A、it should be done hi one’s thirties rather than fiftieth
B、its cost has fallen considerably
C、it is available to most people including the most advanced laser technology
D、it has become more and more convenient
答案C
解析 判断题。根据第三段第二句，But the proportionate cost of treatment has fallen substantially, bringing all but the most advanced laser technology within the reach of most people(整容手术费用的大幅下降，使大多数人能够享受除了最先进的激光技术以外的其他整容手术)，C项与原文的不符合，故是正确的答案。其余句子可以在文章里找到。根据第二段第二、第三句，Dr．Derard Imber建议人们在30多岁时进行面容的“维护工作”，那种等着做一次大手术的想法是愚蠢的，因为这会浪费20年的时光，而且手术会无法进行。根据第三段第二句可以得出B项的陈述。根据第四段第—句，整容技术的不断提高使患者能够在一个下午局部麻醉来接受手术治疗，可以得出D项的陈述。
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