Text 2 Pretty in pink:adult women do not

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问题 Text 2 Pretty in pink:adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour,yet it is pervasive in our young girls'lives.It is not that pink is intrinsically bad,but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and,though it may celebrate girlhood in one way,it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls'identity to appearance.Then it presents that connection,even among twoyearolds,between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence.Looking around,I despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls'lives and interests.Girls'attraction to pink may seem unavoidable,somehow encoded in their DNA,but according to Jo Paoletti,an associate professor of American Studies,it is not.Children were not colourcoded at all until the early 20th century:in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter,since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.What's more,both boys and girls wore what were thought of as genderneutral dresses.When nursery colours were introduced,pink was actually considered the more masculine colour,a pastel version of red,which was associated with strength.Blue,with its intimations of the Virgin Mary,constancy and faithfulness,symbolized femininity.It was not until the mid1980s，when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy,that pink fully came into its own,when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls,part of what defined them as female,at least for the first few critical years.I had not realized how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kids,including our core beliefs about their psychological development.Take the toddler.I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children's behavior:wrong.Turns out,according to Daniel Cook,a historian of childhood consumerism,it was popularized as a marketing trick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s.Trade publications counselled department stores that,in order to increase sales,they should create a“third stepping stone”between infant wear and older kids'clothes.It was only after“toddler”became a common shoppers'term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage.Splitting kids,or adults,into evertinier categories has proved a surefire way to boost profits.And one of the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences—or invent them where they did not previously exist.By saying“it is…the rainbow”（Line 2,Para.1）,the author means pink____A.should not be the sole representation of girlhoodB.should not be associated with girls'innocenceC.cannot explain girls'lack of imaginationD.cannot influence girls'lives and interests

选项 A.should not be the sole representation of girlhood
B.should not be associated with girls'innocence
C.cannot explain girls'lack of imagination
D.cannot influence girls'lives and interests

答案 A

解析含义题【命题思路】这是一道句意理解题，需要对该句所在处进行锁定，从而根据上下文线索理解字里行间的含义。【直击答案】画线句子之前的内容提到“成年女性记不得曾经如此痴迷于颜色”，接着yet进行转折再次强调“粉色充斥着女孩的生活”，画线句子暗示粉色只是女孩生活的一部分，不应该代表生活的所有方面；另外，句后并列的成分表达了粉色在某个方面可能衬托女孩的特质，暗示着衬托女孩特质的还有其他方面的内容，表明粉色并不是女孩颜色的唯一，故A项为正确选项。且“representation of girlhood”是原文句中“celebrated girlhood”的同义替换，“sole”是原文句中“in one way”的同义替换，进一步验证A项。【干扰排除】B项干扰来自原句“Then it presents…evidence of innocence”，谈及粉色被视为天真以及天真的证据，并非选项谈及的不应该有联系，故排除。对于C、D两项，原文谈及的是“Looking around,I…lives and interests.”，人们过分强调粉色从而缺乏对女孩生活兴趣的想象力，这两项均属于偷换概念。

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Text 2 Pretty in pink:adult women do not

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