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Online HomeWork_U8B4 I. Reading Comprehension Section A Fast Reading 1 When I casually mentioned to a colleague that I was looking into skin cream that claimed to beat back the destruction that comes with age, her worries poured out. A month ago, she told me, she had suddenly noticed wrinkles all over her face. Fingering her beautiful but finely lined features, she explained that, although she knew that her discovery had more to do with the shock resulting from the sudden end of a six-year relationship than early ageing, she just had to do something about it. 2 Giving her the painful facts concerning her chance to renew herself, I told her I thought the claims of such miracle cures were ridiculous. Despite my remarks, however, she begged to know where she could get the treatments I had mentioned. When it comes to beauty, who wants to know the truth? 3 Our ability to believe what we want to has, in the past, made life easy for the beauty industry. Fuelled by the immense value attached to youth, it has made millions out of vacant promises of renewing faces and bodies. To give skin-care scientific authority, beauty counters have now stolen a thin covering of respectability from the hospital clinic. Sales staff in white coats “diagnose skin types on computers and blind customers with the science of damaged molecules and DNA repair. Providing the drugs for this game, the industry has created new skin therapies, which, they say, dont just sit on the surface but actually interact with the cells. 4 Is this really just a harmless game, though? The increasingly exaggerated claims made by manufacturers about their products ability to get rid of wrinkles have worried doctors. The advertisements declare that active ingredients stimulate cells deep in the skins layers to divide, so replacing old cells and effectively renewing the skin. 5 If these claims are true, could the effects be harmful? If normal cells can be stimulated to divide, then abnormal one