For most people, the word “fashion” means “clothes”. But people ask the question, “What clothes are fashion?” And they use the adjective “fashionable” in the same way: “she was wearing a fashionable coat.” “His shirt was really a fashionable color.”
But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs and in languages.
Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will feel that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1950 was different from one of 1508. A fashionable man in 1920 looked very different from his grandson in 2000.
Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspapers, radios, telephones and televisions send information from one country to another in a few hours.
New fashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion.
24. From this passage we know that “fashion” means _______.
A. clothes B. most of the popular things
C. many things D. everything
25. Which of the following things is fashionable today?
A. Surfing on different cell-phones.
B. Radios send information from one country to another.
C. People read newspapers every day.
D. Playing games at school.
26. “There is money in fashion” in the last sentence means _______.
A. clothes are expensive
B. fashions can help people make big money
C. fashionable things are all expensive
D. if you are in fashion, you will have money
27. Which one is Not Right in the following statements?
A. As time goes, fashions can be different from what they are now.
B. In the modern world, fashions change very quickly.
C. The word “fashions” doesn’t only mean “clothes”.
D. Fashions are in many things, but there aren’t fashions in school subjects.