新视界大学英语4 Unit3

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➌ Match the pictures with the extracts from the passage.
(a) Power dressing was characterized by smart executive suits and, for the newlyempowered women, shoulder pads and knee-length skirts. (b) Perhaps the most important development in fashion in the 1960s was the miniskirt ... (c) So the late 1980s in the US saw the rise of the more
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➋ Choose the best answer to the questions.
1 What happened on the fashion scene in the 1950s? (a) (a) Blue jeans arrived in Europe and Asia. (b) American youth started wearing jeans. (c) The French started to manufacture jeans. (d) American women started to wear trousers.
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➊ Look at the title of the passage and answer the
questions.
1 Which fashion items do you think the passage will
focus on?
☐ bikinis ☐ hats ☐ jackets
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Answer: 1 (d) 2 (e) 3(a) 4(b) 5(c)
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Now number the pictures in chronological order.
Answer: The pictures are in the chronological order of 4, 1, 3, 5, 2
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4 Perhaps the most important development in fashion in the 1960s was the miniskirt, invented by the British designer Mary Quant. Because Quant worked in the heart of Swinging London, the miniskirt developed into a major international fashion. It attracted greater respect when the great French designer, Courrèges, imported it into his range of clothes and developed it into an item of high fashion. But it would not have achieved such international currency without the development of tights, instead of stockings, because the rise in hemlines meant the stocking tops would be visible.
☐ jeans ☐ shoes ☐ skirts
☐ socks ☐ ties
2 Which aspects of the items do you expect the
descriptions to concentrate on?
☐ appearance ☐ colour
☐ comfort
☐ cost
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When Levi Strauss & Co began to export blue jeans to Europe and Asia in the late 1950s, they were bought and worn with huge enthusiasm by a large proportion of young people and recognized as a symbol of the young, informal American way of life.
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I suspect she was inspired by pictures of the French court in the 16th century – there’s certainly something very, how can I put it, historical about the design. But those glasses bring her right into the 21st century. I really like what she’s done.
2 What do women want to do during an economic boom?
(a) Show less of their legs.
(b) Show more of their legs.
(b)
(c) Buy short skirts.
(d) Sell their shares.
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Now listen again and correct the information.
Answer:
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2 Denim, the textile which jeans are made of, was known in France in the late 16th century, but it was Levi Strauss who saw that mine workers in the Californian gold rush in the mid-19th century needed strong trousers, which he reinforced with metal pins. Blue denim jeans remained popular in the US as work clothes until the 1950s, but then became associated with youth, new ideas, resistance to authority and independent thinking.
6 What happened in the fall of 2007? (a) (a) Hemlines anticipated a global crisis. (b) Women’s skirts got shorter. (c) There was a Βιβλιοθήκη Baidurisis on the stock market. (d) Designers began to lose touch with reality.
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Fifty years of fashion
1 No history of fashion in the years 1960 to 2010 can overlook or underestimate two constant factors: jeans and the rise and fall of hemlines for women’s skirts and dresses.
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5 What was fashionable in the 1990s? (b) (a) Designer jeans. (b) Dyed hair and trainers. (c) Tight jeans and short hair. (d) Clothes with bright colours.
☐ length
☐ material
Now read the passage and check your answers.
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Task
◇Browse the passage within 8 minutes to get a rough idea about it.
◇Answer the questions of Activity 2 and 3 on page 49.
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3 What did tights help to promote in the 1960s? (c) (a) The French fashion industry. (b) Stockings. (c) The miniskirt. (d) The Beatles.
4 What was popular in the mid-1980s? (c) (a) Clean shaven faces. (b) Long hair. (c) Denim jeans and jackets. (d) Short skirts.
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3 Hemlines have a more peculiar significance during this period. There is consensus among fashion editors that there is a precise relation, with only a few exceptions, between the length of women’s skirts and the economy. As the stock market rises, so do hemlines, and conversely, when it falls, so do they. Exactly why women should want to expose or conceal bare legs during periods of economic boom and bust remains a mystery. But the general trend is clear. Whenever the economic outlook is troublesome, the convention is for both men and women to wear more conservative clothes.
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➊ Listen and underline any words or expressions which are different from what you hear.
Our next model is coming down the catwalk now. Now you have to remember that all of the models designed their own clothes, they are all first-year students of the college, all of them are doing the course in fashion design, and they come from all over the world. This is Margot Manfort, who’s 21 years old and comes from Belgium. As you can see, Margot is wearing a long light green dress, which contrasts neatly with the red bag and her blonde hair. It’s a strong, sensuous design.
➋ Work in pairs. Look at the photos and discuss the questions.
1 Which style do you like most, and why? 2 Which style do you like least, and why? 3 Would you like to be a fashion model? Why / Why not?
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Watch a video clip about the tailor of the film Coco Before Chanel.