2019-2020年高考英语四月阅读理解和完形填空自练(9)

2019-2020年高考英语四月阅读理解和完形填空自练（9）

【xx高考复习】阅读理解

For anyone who is determined to be a fashion designer，it is not enough to have succeeded in college.The real test is whether they can survive，and bee established during their early 20s，making a name for themselves in the real world where business skills can be as important as talent and creativity.

Fashion is a hard business.There is a continuous amount of stress because work is at a constant and extremely fast speed to prepare for the next season’s collections.It is extremely petitive and there is the constant need to make attractive advertisements of the latest fashion in newspapers and magazines.It also requires continual freshness because the appetite for new ideas is hard to satisfy.“We try to warn people befo re they e to us about how tough it is.” says Lydia Kemeny，Head of Fashion at St.Martin’s School of Art in London.“And we point out that drive and determination are absolutely necessary.”This may seem far removed from the popular opinions of fashionable young people spending their time designing pretty dresses.That may well be what they do in their first year of study but a good college won’t be slow in introducing students to mercial realities，“We don’t walk our foot on the blossoming flower of creativity but in the second year we start introducing the restrictions of price，producing ability，marketing and so on.”

Almost all fashion design is done to a brief.It is not a form of self-expression as such，although there is certainly room for imagination and creativity.Most young designers are going to end up as employees of a producer or a fashion house and they still need to be able to work within the characteristic style of their employer.Even those students who are most modern in their own taste of clothes may need to adapt to produce designs which are right for the mainstream of the market.They also have to be able to work at both the expensive and the cheap end of the market and the challenge to produce good design inexpensively may well be demanding.

【语篇解读】成为时尚设计师并不是件容易的事。仅仅在大学校园里获取学业的成功是不够的，时尚在不断变化，商业技巧和天赋、创造性同样重要。

5．Which of the following is mainly discussed in the passage?

A．Talent in fashion.

B．Good marks at college.

C．Ability to create new designs.

D．Business skills in fashion industry.

解析主旨大意题。第一段是文章的主题段，通读全文可知整篇文章介绍的是在时尚业应该掌握怎样的商业技巧才能立足。

答案D

6．What can we learn from the second paragraph?

A．Fashion designers are highly motivated and really detemined.

B．Good preparations for the next season can reduce stress.

C．Consumers’ appetite for new ideas keep s changing.