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.According to Paragraph 2,which of the following is true of colours?A.Colours are encoded in girls'DNA.B.Blue used to be regarded as the colour for girls.C.Pink used to be a neutral colour in symbolizing genders.D.White is preferred by babies.

选项 A.Colours are encoded in girls'DNA.
B.Blue used to be regarded as the colour for girls.
C.Pink used to be a neutral colour in symbolizing genders.
D.White is preferred by babies.

答案 B

解析推理题【命题思路】这是一道封闭式推理题，需要对第二段内容进行锁定，然后根据选项的关键词进行一一的判断从而得出答案。【直击答案】B项谈到“蓝色”，根据该关键词可以定位到本段信息“Blue,…symbolized femininity.”由此可知，蓝色曾经被认为是女孩的代表色，故为正确答案。【干扰排除】A项根据“DNA”定位到第二段的首句，该句后面出现了明显的转折，表明女孩对粉色喜爱并非蕴藏在基因中并不成立，故排除。C项可定位到本段第三、四句，第三句提及的中性化服装是指上句提到的白色并非粉色衣服，第四句谈到“粉色实际上是被认为更加男性化的颜色”，综合而知，白色曾是中性化的颜色，而粉色曾经代表了男性特质，故该项与原文意思相反。D项可以定位到第二段第二句，该句表示在洗衣机问世以前，为了实用的目的，婴儿都穿白色，并未提到婴儿对颜色有什么偏好。

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Text 2 Pretty in pink:adult women do not

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