2015综合AB_完型填空_复习自测题-综合B-1【荐】.docVIP

综合B-1 Style, Not Fashion Style goes way beyond fashion; it is the distinctive way we put ourselves together. It is a unique blend of spirit and ___51___ —personal identity imposed on, and created through, the world of things. It is a way of capturing something vibrant, making a ___52___ about ourselves in clothes. It is what people really want when they aspire to be fashionable (if they are just adoring themselves in status___53___.) Through clothes, we reinvent ourselves every time we get dressed. Our wardrobe is our visual vocabulary. Style is our distinctive pattern of ___54___, our individual poetry. Fashion is the least of it. Style is, for starters, one part identity: self-awareness and self-knowledge. You can’t have style ___55___ you have a sense of who you are. And style requires security—feeling at home in your body, physically and ___56___. Of course, like all knowledge, self-knowledge must be updated as you grow and evolve: style ___57___ ongoing self assessment. Style is also one part personality: spirit, verve, attitude, wit, inventiveness. It demands the desire and confidence to ___58___ whatever mood one wishes. Such variability is not only necessary but a reflection of a person’s ___59___ complexity as a human being. People want to be themselves and to be seen as themselves. In order to work, style must reflect the real self, the character and personality of the individual; ___60___ 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 ___61___ 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 ___62___ 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 the life is worth ___63___ the effort for. It also shows that you are morally responsible. It shows t