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Fashion is something popular among people during certain time, but it is always fun and interesting to see how style, trends and fads change our lives over the years and how they even try to make a comeback in our society. Everyone remembers a favorite toy or something popular that he or she grew up with, but they have moved out of life with the passing of time.
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Look at the pictures below, and discuss with your classmates: how has people’s life changed in China during the past 60 years?
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1. What is your idea of fashion? How does it change with time?
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2. What are the typical fashionable items among college students today?
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Would you feel kind of shy showing your friends pictures of yourself from several years ago? Why? We all have pictures we’d rather forget because we look “funny”—our hair, our clothes— what we thought was “cool” then is almost certainly silly to look at now.
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When it comes to the typical fashionable Items possessed by the college students today, so far as I know, the following things are worth mentioning. They are computer (both for learning and games), Mobile phone (for communication) and MP3 (both for learning and entertaining).
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粮票
grain coupons
搪瓷杯
an enamelled cup
雪花膏
face cream
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serial pictures
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water pistols
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a slingshot; a catapult
one-piece dress Chinese tunic suit liberation shoes overalls; dungarees; jeans the flared trousers; the bell-bottoms a sailor’s striped shirt goggles
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Fashion changes so fast in this world; who can keep up, really? In fact, what you’re wearing right this very minute will probably be quite out of style in five minutes or so! What’s a person to do?
Year in, year out, we find something coming in and out of fashion in every aspect of life, from hairstyle to food, music to language, and even 1) __w_h_e_r_e_t_o__e_x_er_c_i_se___.
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NEW HORIZON ENGLISH COURSES
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Our Changing Lifestyle: Trends and Fads
These days, lifestyles have a tendency to change so fast. It is more than just clothing and hairstyles that are in style one year and out of date the next; it’s a whole way of living.
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To follow the fashions seems to have Become the general trend among young people in the modern society. But if we analyze the reasons, the following points should be taken into account. Firstly, they don’t want to be considered out-of-date. Secondly, they have a strong desire to show they are different from others . Last but Not the least, they are curious about and interested in anything that is new.
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Fashions may be of two kinds: 3) t_r_e_n_d_s_a_n_d__f_a_d_s. A trend lasts longer than a fad and becomes a true part of 4)_m__o_d_e_r_n_c_u_l_tu__re_.
Some of these changes in our lifestyle may be explained by 2) __d_e_s_ir_e_f_o_r_m__o_n_e_y___, but certainly not all of these.
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