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It wasn't always this way in Britain. Once, beauty queens dated footballers, traveled the world and were guaranteed fame, fortune and fun. Now, they open new supermarkets, are sponsored by dry-cleaning companies and, if they're lucky, they get free clothes from supermarkets.
When Francesca Marchant was crowned Miss Sussex in 1969, it was something to be extremely proud of. "I came from a small town, and all my friends were green with envy when they found out I'd won. My boyfriends at the time thought it was terrific and boasted to everyone that he was going out with a beauty queen."
But the good times couldn't last. The feminist movement gathered momentum. Some women were determined to bring an end to these "cattle shows". Nowadays, saying that you were a beauty queen just doesn't sound good.
Miss World organizers claim that contestants are judged on qualities other than just their physical appearance. But, Jacqueline Gold, England's representative at this year's contest, was not chosen because of her academic record. The Miss World Website states that she "left school having gained many computer qualifications, and certificates in First Aid and Life Saving", meaning, not much of an education.
The only time the contests attract attraction now is because of the protesters. At the 1999 Miss World in Britain, around 60 demonstrators hurled flour bombs and fought with the police. They denounced the beauty contest as a "sexist cattle market". They waved banners saying "fat girls are cool" and "women's bodies are not for sale".
Beauty contests in Britain are now ______
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Section B
Directions: In this section, you will read 5 short conversations between a man and a woman. At the end of each conversation there is a question followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to the question from the 4 choices by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
Woman: You were late again this morning.
Man: So what？
Question: How does the man react to the woman's blame？
The process of gaining or losing weight can be explained by comparing your body to your car. Both run 【B1】______ fuel, food for your body and gasoline for your car. Both 【B2】______ that fuel, first into heat, then energy, some of 【B3】______ is used to do work, and some emitted as waste. And 【B4】______ your car uses more energy when the engine is racing than when it is idling, 【B5】______ does your body use more energy when you are working hard than 【B6】______ you are resting.
For the purpose of this comparison, 【B7】______ , there is one significant difference between them. Your car cannot store fuel by turning it into 【B8】______ else; all gasoline not 【B9】______ remains as gasoline. But your body stores 【B10】______ energy as fat. When the gas tank is 【B11】______ empty, the car won't run; but your body can burn fat to provide more energy.
Therefore, if you want to gain weight, you must do 【B12】______ of two things: eat more calories (units of heat, therefore energy), or use less through 【B13】______ . If you want to lose weight, you do the 【B14】______ , decrease your intake of calories or increase the amount of energy you spend. There is 【B15】______ way. Gaining or losing weight is always a relation between intake and output of potential energy.
【B1】______
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will read 5 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the answer that best suits the situation to complete the dialogue by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
A: How about having lunch with me today, Paul？ B: ______
听力原文： Police in London now say that more than 50 people died in yesterday's terrorist bombings and warn that the death toll could rise. Police also said that there were no more than four explosive devices involved, three on underground trains and one on a bus, and they estimated that all the bombs were relatively small containing about 10 pounds of high explosive. Commissioner Blair also denied there was any evidence to suggest that the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers but said the possibility could not be ruled out. Police said they received no warning about the attacks and would not speculate on a claim by a group calling itself "The Secret Organization of A1-Qaida in Europe" that it was behind the bombings.
We know for sure that _______.
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