Plastic, it seems, is no longer fantastic. Even Hollywood, that factory of artifice (欺騙 ), is demanding a return to reality when it comes to women’s bodies.

　　Disney Studio's recent casting call for female extras for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film included a surprise announcement: "Must have real breasts. Do not submit if you have implants (移植物 )." Surgically enhanced breasts might still be considered sexy or essential by airhead starlets and models. but the new buzzword(時髦語 ) in America is"authenticity". That's why. for women in the public eye. having fake breasts is looking increasingly less like a career move and more like career suicide. Another indication that fake breasts are going bust is the fact that television shows such as Extreme Makeover and The Swan (TV which promised to nip and tuck ordinary women into goddesses) have been cancelled. while statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery show that the number of breast enlargements in America fell from 365,000 to 312,000 last year.

　　In many surveys. research has shown that the larger the breasts, the more stupid a woman is considered to be. Other women,meanwhile, consider women with large breasts as a threat-so having a surgical enhancement is a lose-lose situation. Chantelle Houghton (from Big Brother remember her?) almost immediately regretted gelling implants to boost her chest and admits that they were "taking over her life". and she had io resort to physiotherapy to deal with the back pain they caused. Even Sharon Osbourne, voted the queen of nip and tuck(整容手術), said recently: "I wish I'd never had my breasts done. It's like having a waterbed on your chest I hate them. I want to have the bags taken out-then I'll put them on eBay."

　　The more stories we hear like this the better. because then perhaps young women will realize that large breasts aren’t che assets they think they are-or Hollywood has made them out to be.

　　測試題

　　1. What is the new trend in Hollywood as to women’s bodies?

　　2. For mindless starlets and models. plastic breasts might be___________________.

　　3. That surgically enhanced breasts are not popular is manifested by the______________ of some TV shows.

　　4. According to many surveys. if a woman has large breasts. she will be regarded as_______________by other women.

　　5. The author hopes that through some real stories, young women can be aware that large breasts____________________as they think.

　　答案詳解

　　1.[A return to reality.]

　　[定位]根據題干中的Hollywood和women's bodies查找到第1段第2句。

　　解析：本段第1句中的no longer道出整形潮流的改變。第2句指出，好萊塢對女性身材也要求回歸真實自然，題干中as to women's bodies對應原文中的when it comes to women's bodies，答案可在該句主句中找到。

　　2.[sexy or essential]

　　[定位]根據題干中的starlets and models查找到第2段第2句。

　　解析：題干中的mindless和plastic breasts分別為原文中airhead和surgically enhanced breasts的同義替換，所以原文中considered后的sexy or essential為本題答案。

　　3.[cancellation]

　　[定位]根據題干中的TV shows查找到第2段第4句。

　　解析：根據空白處前后的冠詞和介詞，推斷這里需要填入一個名詞。該句提到，另一個隆胸潮流不再的跡象，就是有些節目被取消了(have been cancelled)，因此需將cancelled轉化為其名詞形式cancellation。

　　4.[a threat]

　　[定位]根據題干中的surveys, large breasts以及other women查找到第3段第2句。

　　解析：題干將原文主動句改成了被動句，原文中的consider... as 對應題干中的regarded as,故原文中的as的賓語a threat就是答案。

　　5.[aren't the assets]

　　[定位]根據題干中的young women，large breasts以及they think查找到第4段。

　　解析：原文最后一段說，這樣的真實故事聽得越多，也就越明白豐滿的胸部并不像想象中的那樣是一種優勢，題干表達相同的意思，比較原文與題干，可知aren't the assets為答案。

　　參考譯文

　　整形不再讓人夢寐以求。[1]即使是在好萊塢這種充斥著虛假的地方，對女性身材的要求也開始向真實自然回歸。

　　迪士尼工作室目前正給《加勒比海盜4》選臨時女演員，有一條要求很讓人驚訝：胸部不能是隆過的。如果做過手術，那就不要來申請。[2]整形過的胸部，對于沒什么腦子的小明星和模特，可能還是挺有吸引力的。但目前在美國，最新潮流是“真實”。這就是為什么作為公眾人物的女性，隆過的胸部更多是意味著自毀前程，而非職業靈藥。[3]另一個隆胸潮流不再的跡象，就是像《改頭換面》、《丑小鴨變天鵝》(讓平凡女性變身大美人的電視節目)這樣的節目被取消了，美國整形手術協會的數據也表明，去年接受隆胸手術的人數從36.5萬減到了31.2萬。

　　很多調查都顯示，胸部越大的女人越沒腦子。[4]其他女人則認為胸大的女人對自己來說是個威脅：所以隆胸手術實在是既不利人也不利己。電視節目《老大哥》中的演員Chantelle Houghton表示她很后悔做了隆胸手術，稱增大的胸部“占據了她大部分的生活”，而且她必須接受物理治療以緩解胸部增大導致的后背疼痛。票選出來的人造美女王后Sharon Osbourne最近也提到：“真希望沒有做過手術。感覺胸上就像被放了一張水床。我討厭它們。我想把填充物拿出來，然后放到eBay上賣掉!”

　　[5]這種故事我們知道得越多越好，這樣年輕的女性們就會知道，豐滿的胸部不像她們原來以為的那樣是一種優勢——或者說是好萊塢讓這不再成為優勢。