英语四级阅读理解的精炼50篇020: 芭比—不仅是玩具(含答案)_大学英语阅读

英语四级阅读理解的精炼50篇020: 芭比—不仅是玩具(含答案)

　　英语四级阅读理解精炼第020篇，练习关于芭比不仅是玩具的阅读理解，含有四级阅读练习题，参考译文，答案等内容。

　　created Barbie in 1959 was　inspired1 by this desire amongst girls for a confident female role model. Handler probably didn t expect the hostile reaction her doll initially received from the American public. Because Barbie had breasts she was accused of giving young girls a negative body image and making them obsessed2 with their looks.

　　Those in the anti-Barbie camp say that if Barbie were human, she would be 1 .68m tall, weigh 54kg and measure an impossible 38 - 18 - 34. Young girls, who play with Barbie, according to her critics, will grow up wanting to have big breasts and slim waists.

　　They will grow up starving themselves so as to achieve that perfect, but impossible , figure.

　　In my post-Barbie teen years, as I was trying to develop my own personality and find my place in the world, I started to believe such pseudo -feminist arguments. I started to distance myself from my Barbie -playing childhood, and would look down upon anything that was colored pink like Barbie s clothes. Pink was evil, I thought. It signified silly and pretty things of little consequence it signified Barbie.

　　Luckily enough, this crazy phrase didn t last long. Feminism3 goes much deeper than hating Barbie, I quickly realize. I have long reclaimed4 the color pink for myself. I declare proudly that I love Barbie and all she represents.