Wholly aside from aesthetic and moral considerations, fashion is an economic absurdity, and there is little to be said in its favor. Nevertheless, we can appreciate the wisdom in Gina Lombroso’s belief that the enormous stress which women lay on everything pertaining to clothes and the art of personal adornment is connected with the tendency to crystallize sentiment into an object. Woman symbolizes every important event in her life by a special dress; and a jewel or a beautiful gown means to a woman what an official decoration means to a man. "The temptation of dress is the last step in the ceremony to which the novice has to submit before entering the cloister. The memory of the gown which she too might have worn was the strongest temptation that assailed St. Catherine before she took her solemn vows—a gown, embroidered with gold and stars, like those her sister had worn, which her grandchildren would have gazed at with eyes filled with wonder and admiration… If a woman’s clothes cost the family and society a little time, money, and activity, they allow woman, independent of lies and calumnies, to triumph and come to the fore outside of man’s world and competition. They allow woman to satisfy her desire to be the first in the most varied fields by giving her the illusion that she is first, and at the same time enabling her rival to have the same illusion. Clothes absorb some of woman’s activity which might otherwise be diverted to more or less worth-while ends; they give woman real satisfaction—a satisfaction complete in itself, and independent of others, and… they constitute a safety valve which saves society from much greater and more dangerous evils than those which they cause. " The aptness of these observations lies in the emphasis on clothes which are really beautiful and distinctive. But fashion is not primarily concerned with beauty; and fashion connotes conformity, not the individuality so cherished by our society and so artfully suggested by the copywriters. Many people who rigorously follow fashions believe they are following their own inclinations; they are unaware of the primitive, tribal impulsion; and this is true of fashions in manners, morals, and literature, as well as in clothes. Gina Lombroso believes that with regard to clothes and the art of personal adornment, women______.
A. are individualistic
B. tend to crystallize sentiment into an object
C. are not sentimental
D. are really not fashion conscious
尽管是航空业萧条的时期,各家航空公司也没有节省广告宣传的开支。翻开许多城市的晚报,最近一直都在连续刊登如下广告:飞机远比汽车安全!你不要被空难的夸张报道吓破了胆,根据航空业协会的统计,飞机每飞行1亿千米死1人,而汽车每走5000万千米死1人。汽车工业协会对这个广告大为恼火,他们通过电视公布了另外一个数字:飞机每20万飞行小时死1人,而汽车每200万行驶小时死1人。 如果以上资料均为真,则以下哪项最能解释上述这种看起来矛盾的结论( )
A. 安全性只是人们在进行交通工具选择时所考虑问题的一个方面,便利性、舒适感以及某种特殊的体验都会影响消费者的选择
B. 尽管飞机的驾驶员所受的专业训练远远超过汽车司机,但是,因为飞行高度的原因,飞机失事的生还率低于车祸
C. 飞机的确比汽车安全,但是,空难事故所造成的新闻轰动要远远超过车祸,所以,给人们留下的印象也格外深刻
D. 两种速度完全不同的交通工具,用运行的距离做单位来比较安全性是不全面的,用运行的时间来比较也会出偏差