Style goes way beyond fashion: It is the distinctive way we put ourselves together. It is a unique blend of spirit and substance-personal identity imposed oil and created through the world of things. __________（1）It is what people really want when they aspire to be fashionable.（if they aren't just adorning themselves in status symbols）.

Through clothes, we reinvent ourselves every time we get dressed. Our wardrobe is our visual vocabulary. Style is our distinctive pattern of speech, our individual poetry.

Fashion is the least of it. Style is, for starters, one part identity: self-awareness and self-knowledge. __________（2）And style requires security-feeling at home in your body, physically and mentally. Of course, like all knowledge, self-knowledge must be updated as you grow evolve; style takes ongoing self-assessment.

Style is also one part personality: spirit: verve, attitude, wit, inventiveness. It demands the desire and confidence to express whatever mood one wishes. Such variability is not only necessary but a reflection of a person's unique complexity as a human being. __________（3）In order to work, style must reflect the real self, the character and personality of the individual; anything less appears to be a costume?

Lastly, style is one part fashion. It's possible to have lots of clothes and not an ounce of style. But it's also possible to have very few clothes and lots of style. Yes, fashion is the means through which we express style, but it takes fewer clothes to be stylish than you might imagine.

Whatever else it is, style is optimism made visible. Style presumes that you are a person of interest: that the world is a place of interest that life is worth making the effort for. It also shows that you are morally responsible. It shows that you don't buy things at the whim of the marketplace or the urging of marketers. __________（4）Style exposes people's ambivalence over good looks. It always demonstrates that appearances do count. Deep down we suspect this, since we ourselves make judgments about others from how they look.

No one should be penalized for not having style, of course, but those who have it are distinctive and thus more memorable. __________（5）They announce to the world that they are in command of themselves.

【練習】

A. It is a way of capturing something vibrant, making a statement about ourselves in clothes.

B. Fashion is part of style.

C. Rather, you focus on what is personally suitable and expressive.

D. You can't have style until you have a sense of who you are.

E. They create a unique identity for themselves and express it through grooming and a few well-chosen clothes.

F. People want to be themselves and to be seen as themselves.

【答案與題解】

1. A 第一段都在解釋什么是風格，六個選項中A、B、D三項都涉及風格，根據文章內容和句式的排比可以看出答案是選項A。

2. D 本段的主旨句是第二句話，本句是對主旨句的闡釋，講風格與自我認知的關系。只有選項D符合。

3. F 本段的主旨句是第一句話，全段在解釋風格與個性的關系。所以，只有選項F符合。

4. C 前一句在講有風格的人不是心血來潮，可以推測此處應該講有風格的人應該是如何的。只有選項C的句意與其對照，且符合整個段意。所以，正確答案是選項C。

5. E 前一句講有風格的人是獨特的，因此也更容易被人記住，選項E在解釋他們是通過什么方式做到這一點的。所以，選項E符合本段段意。

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