1 . Li Meixi is a 12-year-old girl from Chengdu, Sichuan. When she sees fashionable people on the street, she tries to keep away from them. “I am afraid that they think I’m out of fashion,” said Li. This is called fashion anxiety（焦虑）. It is a hot topic online. These days, many people feel worried about their clothes.
In fact, behind fashion anxiety is fashion bullying（霸凌）. Fashion magazines and advertisements（广告）sell the “newest and greatest” trends（趋势）. They tell us what to wear. If we don’t follow the trends, we may worry that people think we’re unfashionable. Also, fashion anxiety comes because we are not confident（自信的）enough.
Ideas about fashion anxiety
Do you have fashion anxiety? What do you think about it? Let’s look at how some teenagers feel.
Liu Jiawei, 14, Songyuan, Jilin
I have fashion anxiety. When I see some people wearing trendy clothes, I dare（敢）not look at them. But this doesn’t bring me much trouble. I still want to buy good-value（性价比高的）clothes. Being suitable is of great importance.
Yin Peixin, 11, Wuhan, Hubei
I love fashion. But my fashion taste is a little more traditional, such as long dresses and skirts. I don’t like fashion trends like green hair and ripped（破洞的）jeans. It’s just so strange to me! I don’t think I have fashion anxiety. But I feel bad for people with fashion anxiety. They shouldn’t be ashamed（羞愧的）of their clothes, because everyone is different—they are special in their own way.
What is fashion?
Fashion is about comfort and feeling good. —Max Azria, US fashion designer
Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion. —Jean Cocteau, French designer
Fashion is not something that is only in dresses. Fashion is in the sky, in the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. —Coco Chanel, French fashion desigher
In fact, fashion changes every season. Anyone can make it. If you can wear something with confidence, you will be the one starting a trend. Clothes just show what you look like, not who you are. What matters in inner（内心的）beauty.
All about fashion | |
| Introduction to the fashion anxiety | Seeing fashionable people on the street, Li Meixi |
| Fashion bullying | Fashion bullying comes because of the two reasons. We are really We don’t have |
| Ideas about fashion anxiety | Liu Jiawei has fashion anxiety, but he doesn’t feel worried because it’s Yin Peixin doesn’t have fashion anxiety. She finds it |
| Famous | Fashion is about comfort and feeling good. Fashion |
| Conclusion | Fashion is always |
2 . COVID-19 (新冠肺炎) has made our life very different. Some of us improved our hygiene habits (卫生习惯). Others learned how to cook. And more people fell in love with biking.
Yang Xiaomeng lives 11km away from her workplace in Beijing. The 26-year-old girl has been riding to work for the last three months. “I used to take the underground. But now riding a bike seems to be a safer choice,” she said.
Yang finds that biking is more relaxing and enjoyable than taking the crowded underground. “There is more fresh air on the road. It’s also a good way to stay fit. I’ll keep biking as my new habit,” she said.
According to Xinhua, many people turned from the bus or the underground to biking. The number of people on bikes on Beijing’s bike only lane (车道) goes up by 17.6%, for example.
In other cities around the world, biking is also becoming more popular. London closed large parts of city to cars so that people can ride bikes safely. New York, Berlin and Montreal created new, wider bike lanes for people to ride. These cities believe that if there are safer and more comfortable places for biking, more people will ride hikes in the future. This will make the cities greener and cleaner, and their people happier and healthier.
1. Yang Xiaomeng went to work by ________ before COVID-19.| A．bike | B．bus | C．car | D．underground |
| A．is more dangerous than walking | B．is a good way to stay fit |
| C．is faster than taking an underground | D．makes the cities greener and cleaner |
| A．created new, wider bike lanes | B．put more shared bikes on the roads |
| C．closed large parts of the city to cars | D．stopped buses going on the roads |
| A．notice | B．newspaper | C．novel | D．letter |
3 . Is it a celebrity’s （名人）job to be a good role model? Please read the following students’ debate.
Pros（正方） | Cons（反方） |
It’s a celebrity’s job to be a good role model because people usually look up to stars. If a celebrity drinks and smokes, his fans will follow him because they look up to the celebrity so much. If a celebrity’s lifestyle is improper for kids, then their parents should be more careful about what they let their kids see. | A celebrity doesn’t have to try to be a good role model. They are famous because they worked hard at what they love for a living. They should try to make good choices for themselves, not their fans. Lots of stars have to post apology（道歉）letters after being caught doing bad things. It’s good, but if the only reason is to win back their fans, it’s not good. |
I think everyone should try to be a good role model, even if you are not a celebrity! You can still be a role model to your sisters and brothers, a younger neighbor, or anyone. But I think celebrities should be very good, because they are role models for so many people! | Although it is a wonderful thing to be a good role model, that’s not what the celebrities must do. They are famous because they love what they do and are good at it. Being a role model is never in the job. If the celebrity knows they are affecting the young people, they should try hard to set a good example. |
| A．People look up to the celebrities. | B．Everyone should try to be a good role model. |
| C．Celebrities get much love and support from fans. | D．Celebrities are models for many people. |
| A．By working hard at what they love. | B．By setting a good example to others. |
| C．By affecting the young people. | D．By making good choices for themselves. |
| A．It is easy for stars to win back fans. |
| B．Stars may sometimes do something wrong. |
| C．Family members should encourage kids to be stars. |
| D．Even though a celebrity makes mistakes, young people should follow him. |
