Passage 4  (2008•湖南D篇)  阅读理解

Celebrity(名人) has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture.Fans used to be crazy about a specific film,but now the public tends to base its consumption(消费) on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product.Besides,fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover because they don’t sell nearly as well as famous faces.As a result,celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential, moving from advertising for others’ products to developing their own.

Celebrity clothing lines aren’t a completely new phenomenon,but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers,and limited to a few TV actresses.Today  they’re started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands.The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style.As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market,they expand their production scale rapidly,covering almost all the poducts of daily life.

However,for every success story,there’s a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer appeal.No matter how famous the product’s origin is,if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing.And once the initial(最初的) attention dies down,consumer interest might fade,loyalty(忠诚) returning to tried-and-true labels.

Today,celebrities face even more severe embarrassment.The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever,but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well.Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebrity’s shelf life,and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears.Still,the ego’s(自我的) potential for expansion is limitless.Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition,many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered.As the saying goes,success and failure always go hand in hand.Their success as designers might last only a short time,but fashion—like celebrity—has always been temporary.

69.Fashion magazines today         .
put models on the cover
longer put models on the cover
not worry about celebrities’market potential
the market potential of every celebrity correctly

70.A change in the consumer market can be found today that         .
rather than brand name is more concerned
ers prefer models to celebrities for advertisements
ers prefer TV actresses to film stars for advertisements
y rather than the outside of products is more concerned

71.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly         .
se the popularity of a celebrity and the sales of his products
the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general public
short the artistic career of a celebrity in show business
nce the price of a celebrity’s products

72.The passage is mainly about         .
ity and personal style
ity and market potential
ity and fashion design
ity and clothing industry

答案  69.A  70.D  71.A  72.B