Today women are seldom dressed by servants，but buttoning from the left is still the standard for them.Is it interesting？Actually，a standard，once set，resists change.At a time when all women’s shirts buttoned from the left，it would have been risky for any single manufacture to offer women’s shirts that buttoned from the right.After all，women had grown so used to shirts which buttoned from the left and would have to develop new habits and skills to switch.Besides，some women might have found it socially awkward to appear in public wearing shirts that buttoned from the right，since anyone who noticed that would believe they were wearing men’s shirts.

　　1.What is surprising about the standard of the clothing industry?

　　A.It has been followed by the industry for over 400 years.

　　B.It is different for men’s clothing and women’s.

　　C.It works better with men than with women.

　　D.It fails to consider right­handed people.

　　解析　细节理解题。由第一段第四句“Men’s clothes tend to button from the right，and women’s from the left.”可以得出答案。

　　2.What do we know about the rich men in the 17th century?

　　A.They tended to wear clothes without buttons.

　　B.They were interested in historical matters.

　　C.They were mostly dressed by servants.

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