Style goes way beyond fashion: It is the distinctive way we put ourselves together. It is a unique blend of spirit and substance-personal identity imposed oil and created through the world of things. __________（1）It is what people really want when they aspire to be fashionable.（if they aren't just adorning themselves in status symbols）.

Through clothes, we reinvent ourselves every time we get dressed. Our wardrobe is our visual vocabulary. Style is our distinctive pattern of speech, our individual poetry.

Fashion is the least of it. Style is, for starters, one part identity: self-awareness and self-knowledge. __________（2）And style requires security-feeling at home in your body, physically and mentally. Of course, like all knowledge, self-knowledge must be updated as you grow evolve; style takes ongoing self-assessment.

Style is also one part personality: spirit: verve, attitude, wit, inventiveness. It demands the desire and confidence to express whatever mood one wishes. Such variability is not only necessary but a reflection of a person's unique complexity as a human being. __________（3）In order to work, style must reflect the real self, the character and personality of the individual; anything less appears to be a costume?

Lastly, style is one part fashion. It's possible to have lots of clothes and not an ounce of style. But it's also possible to have very few clothes and lots of style. Yes, fashion is the means through which we express style, but it takes fewer clothes to be stylish than you might imagine.

Whatever else it is, style is optimism made visible. Style presumes that you are a person of interest: that the world is a place of interest that life is worth making the effort for. It also shows that you are morally responsible. It shows that you don't buy things at the whim of the marketplace or the urging of marketers. __________（4）Style exposes people's ambivalence over good looks. It always demonstrates that appearances do count. Deep down we suspect this, since we ourselves make judgments about others from how they look.

No one should be penalized for not having style, of course, but those who have it are distinctive and thus more memorable. __________（5）They announce to the world that they are in command of themselves.

【练习】

A. It is a way of capturing something vibrant, making a statement about ourselves in clothes.

B. Fashion is part of style.

C. Rather, you focus on what is personally suitable and expressive.

D. You can't have style until you have a sense of who you are.

E. They create a unique identity for themselves and express it through grooming and a few well-chosen clothes.

F. People want to be themselves and to be seen as themselves.

【答案与题解】

1. A 第一段都在解释什么是风格，六个选项中A、B、D三项都涉及风格，根据文章内容和句式的排比可以看出答案是选项A。

2. D 本段的主旨句是第二句话，本句是对主旨句的阐释，讲风格与自我认知的关系。只有选项D符合。

3. F 本段的主旨句是第一句话，全段在解释风格与个性的关系。所以，只有选项F符合。

4. C 前一句在讲有风格的人不是心血来潮，可以推测此处应该讲有风格的人应该是如何的。只有选项C的句意与其对照，且符合整个段意。所以，正确答案是选项C。

5. E 前一句讲有风格的人是独特的，因此也更容易被人记住，选项E在解释他们是通过什么方式做到这一点的。所以，选项E符合本段段意。

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