A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration(夸張) will do no harm when it shows the person’s unique qualities to their advantages. To show personal attractiveness in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of embellishment so that the person so packaged is not a commodity, but a human being, lively and lovely.
A young person, especially a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted. Youth however, comes and goes in a flash. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years. If you still enjoy life enough to keep self-confidence and work at pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your attractiveness and grace will remain. Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has been, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life, which now arrives at a self - satisfied stage of quietness and calmness with no interest in fame or wealth. There is no need to make use of hair dyeing. The snow-capped mountain itself is a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the company of the elderly is like reading a thick book of good edition, which attracts one so much that one is unwilling to part with it. As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity sets up its brand by the right packaging.
【小題1】The underlined word in the first paragraph is closest to the word ______ in meaning.

A．decoration B．clarification C．movement D．identification
【小題2】It can be concluded from the text that ______.
A．people should be packaged at all ages
B．people should be packaged in a special way
C．elderly people also care about packaging
D．proper packaging makes people attractive
【小題3】For the middle-aged, attractiveness ______ .
A．hardly exists B．is the strongest
C．comes from the inside D．comes from the appearance
【小題4】According to the author, if you want to keep in harmony with nature, you should ______.
A．dye your hair B．make up at a young age
C．follow the ageing process D．give up fame and wealth
【小題5】The underlined sentence means that elderly people ______.
A．a(chǎn)re usually packaged like a finely-made book
B．experience a lot and have rich knowledge of life
C．do a lot of traveling and can give you much information
D．enjoy reading thick books about beautiful nature and fairyland


【小題1】A
【小題2】D
【小題3】C
【小題4】C
【小題5】B

解析試題分析：人和商品一樣也需要包裝，適當(dāng)?shù)陌b會(huì)讓人更加有魅力，但是過(guò)度的包裝會(huì)適得其反，實(shí)際上每個(gè)年齡階段都有自己獨(dú)特的美，所以作者認(rèn)為我們要遵循變老的過(guò)程，和自然和諧。
【小題1】猜詞題：從第一段的句子：A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of 可知一個(gè)有技巧的包裝紙知道怎么增加自然的美不用裝飾，所以embellishment 相當(dāng)于decoration，選A
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第一段的句子：so that the person so packaged is not a commodity, but a human being, lively and lovely.可知適當(dāng)?shù)陌b使人們更加有吸引力，選D
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)題：從第二段的句子：Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years. If you still enjoy life enough to keep self-confidence and work at pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your attractiveness and grace will remain.可知對(duì)于中年人來(lái)說(shuō)：吸引力是來(lái)自于內(nèi)在的，選C
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)題：從第二段的句子：Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness.可知如果你要和自然保持和諧應(yīng)該遵循變老的過(guò)程，選C
【小題5】句意理解題：從第二段的句子：這句話將老人比喻成一本厚厚的書(shū)，可知這句話是說(shuō)老年人經(jīng)歷了很多，有豐富的人生知識(shí)，選B
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