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2015考研英语阅读理解精读P10—哲学 　Passage 10 　　Browse through the racks of dresses, skirts, and tops in almost any trendy clothing store in Argentina, and whether your find something that fits depends on your size, but shops carry few—if any – options for curvaceous women. When you go into a store and find an extra large, you know that it is really start to think that everybody is like this, and that you are big. But that’s not true. 　　In this beauty-conscious nation, which has the world’s second-highest rate of anorexia, many are particularly blaming the country’s clothing industry for offering only tiny sizes of the latest fashions. The result is a dangerous paradox of girls and women adapting to the clothes rather than clothes adapting to them. The Argentitine legislature is considering whether to force clothing manufacturers to cover “all the anthropometric measurements of the Argentine woman” up to extra large size, the bill also addresses the related problem of so-called “tricky” labeling in which S,M, and L designations vary by brand and are smaller than international standards. 　　The proposal has raised eyebrows in a historically flirtatious society skeptical of government and well known for its obsession with beauty. “Argentina has the worlds’ highest rates of aesthetic surgery,” says Mabel Bello, founder of the Association for the Fight Against Anorexia. “When you are talking about how preoccupied with beauty our society is, that is the most telling statistic.” 　　For experts such statistics spell futility for legal remedies. “These types of laws are not going to cause lasting changes,?says Susana Saulquin, a sociologist of fashion. ?A better way to address the problem is through public education that emphasizesr balanced eating habits over an unrealistic ideal of customers, but over time, she believes, amore balanced view of beauty will emerge” 　　For their part, industry groups condeme the bill as overreaching state intervening. They say their business decisions a