下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文，并根据短文回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 第一篇 Women’s fashion If women are
mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame.
Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are
out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big
stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside
because of the change of fashion. When you come to think of it, only a woman is
capable of standing in front of a wardrobe packed full of clothes and announcing
sadly that she has nothing to wear. Changing fashions are
nothing more than the intentional creation of waste. Many women spend vast sums
of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women who
cannot afford to throw away clothing in this way, waste hours of their time
altering the dresses they have. Skirts are lengthened or shortened, neck-lines
are lowered or raised, and so on. No one can claim that the
fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashion
designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comport and
durability. They are only interested in outward appearance and they take
advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, as
long as they look right. There can hardly be a man who hasn’t at some time in
his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin dress on a winter day,
or delicately picking her way through deep snow in high-heeled shoes.
When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion, the conclusions to
be drawn are obvious. Do the constantly changing fashions of women’s clothes,
one wonders, reflect basic qualities of inconstancy and instability Men are too
clever to let themselves be cheated by fashion designers. Do their unchanging
styles of dress reflect basic qualities of stability and reliability That is
for you to decide. According to the author, the constantly changing fashions of women’s clothes reflect that women lack ______.