Unit 1 Cultural Relics课时作业

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Ⅰ.阅读理解

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　　"Beauty is only skin deep." This expression means that beauty is only a temporary surface quality. And some beauty products can cause lasting damage that goes far below the surface of the skin.

　　In the United States, many people use sunlight and non­natural light to darken their skin.Health experts advise against what is called "tanning" because of its links to skin cancer.In the African country of Senegal (塞内加尔), some women take health risks trying to do just

　　the_opposite.

　　An average beauty supply shop in Dakar has many kinds of skin­lightening creams and soaps.The World Health Organization says that 25 percent of Senegalese women use skin­lightening products on a usual basis.These products can contain chemicals such as mercury (汞), hydroquinone (对苯二酚), etc.These are dangerous ingredients that can cause cancer and possibly other physical damage to the skin.They can actually burn the eyes and skin.

　　Shop worker Adama Diagne advises her visitors to avoid the stronger products that promise fast results.She uses a cream that is made from carrots and not the strong chemical, hydroquinone.She says that it is a personal choice and that no one pressures her.Some women want to be black every day, but for her, she likes to be a shade of brown.

　　Women in Senegal say they lighten their skin for the same reason that women all over the world make changes to their appearance.They say they want to look beautiful, to find a husband, or to stand out in a crowd or simply to look great for a special event.

　　This thinking troubles Senegalese filmmaker Khardiata Pouye Sall.So, she made This Color That Bothers Me, a film about the subject of skin lightening.She said, "I used the most shocking images so that women would see the dangers.It is hard to understand why a woman says that dark skin is not beautiful.It is in their heads.They want to please a man, to be loved.Or they want to please society, to succeed."

　　Ms Sall says that the government needs to better control the marketing and sale of skin lightening products.But she adds that education is the best way to persuade people against using them.

　　语篇解读：本文是说明文。塞内加尔的女性为了美使用的一些化学产品给其带来了极大的危害。

1.The underlined parts "the opposite" in Paragraph 2 means some Senegalese women ________.