17．Beauty is only skin deep．This expression means that beauty is only a surface quality．And some beauty products can cause lasting damage that goes far below the surface of the skin．But people，especially women，will risk a lot for beauty．
In the United States，many people use sunlight or non-natural light to darken their skin．But in the African country of Senegal（塞內加爾），lots of women take health risks trying to do the opposite．
The World Health Organization says that 25percent of Senegalese women use skin-lightening products on a usual basis．These products can have chemicals which can burn the eyes and skin and possibly cause cancers．
A beauty supply shop in Dakar has many kinds of skin-lightening products．The shop worker Adama Diagne advises her visitors to avoid the stronger products that promise fast results but bring more damage．She says that some women want to lighten their skin every day．But for her，she likes to be a shade of brown．
Women in Senegal say they lighten their skin for the same reasons women all over the world make changes to their appearance．They want to look beautiful，to find a husband，to stand out in a crowd or to simply look great for a special event．
This thinking troubles Senegalese filmmaker Khardiata Pouye Sall．So she made This Color That Bothers Me，a film about the subject of skin lightening．"I used the most shocking images so that women would see the dangers．It is hard to understand why a woman would tell herself that dark skin is not beautiful．"Ms．Sall says the government needs to better control the marketing and sale of skin lighteners．But she adds education is the best way to persuade people against using them．
55．The underlined part"the opposite"in Para.2refers to the fact thatD．
A．some women pay more attention to skin cancers
B．some women think the black skin beautiful
C．some women want to get lasting beauty
D．some women use products to lighten their skin
56、Which of the following does Adama Diagne probably agree with？B
A．Chemicals should not be used in beauty products．
B．The stronger the products are，the more damage they do．
C．Beauty products can really improve women's skin quality．
D．No effort could be too much for women to become beautiful．
57、Ms．Sall made the film This Color That Bothers Me toB．
A．show the true meaning of beauty
B．educate people on the dangers of beauty products
C．tell people how to use beauty products properly
D．explain how beauty products damage the skin．
分析 本文屬于說明文閱讀，作者通過這篇文章向我們介紹了在美國許多人利用陽光和非自然光線使皮膚變黑，而在非洲塞加內爾的婦女不認為黑皮膚是美麗的，因此她們過度的使用美白產(chǎn)品使自己變白，然而這些美白產(chǎn)品會含有某些致癌的化學成分，Sall女士建議婦女們考慮自己的健康，不要使用這些產(chǎn)品．
解答 55．D 推理判斷題，根據(jù)第二段In the United States，many people use sunlight and non-natural light to darken their skin．Health experts advise against what is called"tanning"because of its links to skin cancer．In the African country of Senegal（塞內加爾），some women take health risks trying to do just the opposite．可知在美國，許多人利用陽光和非自然光線使皮膚變暗，而在非洲國家塞內加爾，一些婦女冒著生命危險做著與之相反的事，由此推知這些婦女會使用一些產(chǎn)品來使她們的膚色變白，所以D選項是正確的．
56．B 細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第四段The shop worker Adama Diagne advises her visitors to avoid the stronger products that promise fast results but bring more damage．店員Adama Diagne建議她的游客避開較強的產(chǎn)品，保證快速的結果卻帶來更大的傷害．故選B．
57．B 細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)最后一段"I used the most shocking images so that women would see the dangers．我用最震撼的畫面，讓女人看到的危險，可知Ms．Sall 通過電影教育人們關于美容產(chǎn)品的危險．故選B．
點評 本文是一個社會文化類閱讀理解，題目涉及多道細節(jié)理解題，做題時結合原文和題目有針對性的找出相關語句進行仔細分析，結合選項選出正確答案．推理判斷題也是要在抓住關鍵句子的基礎上合理的分析才能得出正確答案，切忌胡亂猜測，一定要做到有理有據(jù)．
