介绍:
As the saying goes, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Some mature3 women are just as _(1)_ as younger ladies. In Japanese, the word bimajo _(2)_ women over the age of 35 who look much younger. For the past seven years, a Japanese fashion magazine, Bist, has held the Bimajo Contest beauty pageant▼ to prove that it’s not only young women that meet society’s _(3)_ of beauty.
While it’s great to have a pageant _(4)_ women who are not in their teens or early twenties, some women are afraid of aging. For their whole lives, women have seen commercials4 for anti-aging products and are taught to _(5)_ looking young. Dr. Lorna Warren came to a _(6)_ to do something about this. She wanted women to believe that they could grow old _(7)_ and that aging could be a wonderful thing. Dr. Warren started the Look At Me! art project to challenge5 all the negative _(8)_ of aging.
In order to _(9)_ the lack of older women in media, she got together a bunch of mature women to pose6 for photographs and make art. Many participants7 had never even seen photographs of themselves, _(10)_ done any modeling sessions8. One woman, Hermie, posed while riding her mobility scooter▼ with her legs straddling▼ the handlebars▼. In the picture, Hermie is about as happy as she has ever been in her life because she is having fun being an older woman. Maybe she will try out for the Bimajo Contest next year.
(A) address (B) celebrating (C) gracefully (D) standards
(E) refers to (F) impulsive (G) let alone (H) decision
(I) cowardly (J) value (K) gorgeous (L) stereotypes
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