Man: Can you give any other examples of this kind?
Woman: Yes. I think people who are sociable and outgoing tend to dress in an extravert way, preferring brighter or more dazzling colors-yellows, bright reds and so on. In the same way, aggressive clothes might indicate an aggressive personality or attitude to life.
Man: Do you think the care or lack-advert over the way we actually wear our clothes has anything to tell us?
Woman: Yes, indeed. The length, for example, of a man’s trousers speaks volumes about his awareness of his own image, or if his trousers are half messed, or sort of hanging down, this probably means he is absorbed by other things.
Man: Really?
Woman: Or, to give you other examples, often minority groups who have perhaps failed to persuade with words, tend to express themselves by wearing unconventional, or what some might consider outrageous clothing as a way of showing their thoughts and feelings are different from others, and so they find an outlet in this way.
Man: That surely spills over into other things as well.
Woman: Oh, yes, indeed. Haircuts, music and songs can all be a form of rebellion. But to get back to clothes, I would add that a whole lot about our personality is conveyed in our clothes and the way we look. Aggressiveness, rebelliousness, happiness, sadness and so on, these can all be interpreted. Think of the ageing pop star, who may be pushing middle age, he’ll keep on dressing up like a rebel to try to prove that he is with it still and in touch with his young fans and current trends.
Question 11. About which of the following topics is the woman being interviewed?
Question 12. What does it probably show if an individual overdresses in warmer clothes than are necessary?
Question 13. According to the interview, what kind of people tend to dress in an extravert manner?
Question 14. According to the interview, what speaks a lot about a man’s awareness of his own image?
Question 15. According to the interview, who tend to wear unconventional clothing?
Spot dictation:
When Americans think about hunger, we usually think in terms of mass starvation in far away countries. But hunger, too, often lurks in our own backyard. In 2006, 35.1 million people, including 12.4 million children in the United States didn’t not have access to enough food for an active healthy life. Some of these individuals relied on emergency food sources and some experienced hunger. Although most people think of hungry people and homeless people as the same, the problem of hunger reaches far beyond homelessness. While the number of people being hungry or at the risk of hunger maybe surprising. It is the faces of those hungry individuals that would probably most shock you. The face of hunger is the older couple, who has worked hard for their entire lives, only to find their savings wiped out by unavoidable medical bills. Or a single mother who has to choose whether the salary from her minimum wage job will go to buy food or pay rent. Or a child, who struggles to concentrate on his school work, because his family couldn’t afford dinner the night before. A December 2007 survey estimated that 48 % of those requesting emergency food assistance were either children or their parents. Children are twice as likely to live in households where someone experiences hunger and food insecurity than adults. One in ten adults compared to one in five children live in households where someone suffers from hunger or food insecurity. Child poverty is more widespread in the United States than in any other industrialized country. At the same time, the U.S. government spends less than any industrialized country to pull its children out of poverty. We have long known that the minds and bodies of small children need adequate food to develop properly. But science is just beginning to understand the full extent of this relationship. As late as the 1980s, conventional wisdom held that only the most severe forms of malnutrition actually alter brain development. The latest empirical evidence, however, shows that even relatively mild under-malnutrition produces cognitive impairments in children which can last a life time.
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