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A body
image is the way a person views his or her body. It affects how a person “feels” about his or her body. For example, when
not looking in a mirror, people have a sense of what their bodies look like. A positive
body image is having a realistic and accepting view of your body. However, very
few women have a positive body image. Society, dieting, eating disorders, and overweight
are all related to a negative body image.
A century
ago, full and curvaceous (曲线美的) bodies were admired.
They were also more natural for women to keep. Nowadays, the best female body has
a tiny waist, flat stomach, thin legs, and is very slim. Women are told to weight
less than ever before. Supermodels are the new women's idols. However, most of them
are teenagers, and many of them have eating disorders or diet strictly. Trying to
follow these standards is hard to most women. As a result, they starve themselves,
or exercise—excessively (过度地), or
both.
Most women
who know the standard of beauty and body weight are dieting to reduce weight and
change their figures. Eating disorders are not simply unhealthy diet habits; they
are considered as mental illnesses and can sometimes end in death. Strict dieting
or food restriction combined with a negative body image can become an eating disorder.
A negative
body image can also lead to overweight. This is due to excessive eating to comfort
bad feelings about their bodies. In addition, yo-yo dieting, which often follows
a negative body image, leads to increasingly higher weights with each diet attempt.
A negative
body image is bad for women. I may help them to see an advisor who is good at treating
women with negative body images. Lastly, if society worked on encouraging healthy
lifestyles and healthy looking bodies for women, a lot of good would come from it.
(1)
When people happily accept their bodies no matter how they look like, they .
A . eat a very healthy diet
B . don't know what a body image is
C . have a positive body image
D . don't have a sense of beauty
(2)
It can be inferred that most supermodels .
A . might be unhealthy
B . know how to eat healthily
C . don't like physical exercise
D . set a good example to young girls
(3)
What's the best title of the text?
A . Dieting Counts in Body Image
B . Body Image—a Concern for Women
C . Positive Body Image, Healthy Life
D . Healthy Lifestyle, Healthy Body Image
答案: C
A
C