In the latest beauty craze (狂热)     1     (sweep) social media in China, women and even some men are boasting (自夸) that they are paper thin, by posting photographs of their waists behind a piece of A4 paper. To qualify, the waist must     2     (hide) by the paper entirely. A piece of A4 paper is 8.3 by 11.7 inches, roughly     3     size of a sheet of American letter paper.

With the A4 waist, the trend is attracting hundreds of photographs and thousands of comments on Weibo and other social media networks like WeChat. Being     4     (normally) thin is a widespread standard of beauty for women,     5     has been criticized as an unhealthy ideal of female attractiveness.

Several commentators have found the A4 trend     6     (disturb). In a telephone interview, an expert said, “I find     7     completely stupid. Using a single size     8     (define) all human beings then thinking you have created new standards     9     (be) foolish.” The A4 waist challenge     10     (annoy) him, saying that it allows certain people to gain bragging (吹嘘的) rights, while leaving others in depression.