四级练习2016.01.21
[audio]http://sound.yywz123.com/tingbbs/cet4/cet420160121.mp3[/audio]Nature has supplied every animal except man with some covering for his body such as fur, feathers, hair, or a thick hide.(1)_______________________ —though the earliest men may perhaps have been hairier than modern man.It is only when we begin to think about it a little that we realize that clothes are worn for a great many reasons that have nothing to do with the climate,or with our need for warmth.For instance, we wear clothes to some extent in order to decorate ourselves—to make ourselves, if possible, look more graceful than we are.(2)_____________________,collars and so forth arranged in such a way that they form a kind of decoration,and the material itself is of a kind and color that we think suits us,and is cut or arranged in a way that we think looks nice—though ideas about what looks nice change very much from time to time.Besides decorating us our clothes have to link us up with the people amongst whom we live. We feel uncomfortable if they do not “look right”—if they are not similar to those which other people of our age, sex, country and period are wearing.(3)______________________________. These are because they believe that it will bring them luck or protect them from evil or illness or because it is connected with their religious beliefs.
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