Plastic, it seems, is no longer fantastic. Even Hollywood, that factory of artifice (欺骗), is demanding areturn to reality when it comes to women’s bodies.

Disney Studio's recent casting call for female extras for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film included a surprise announcement: "Must have real breasts. Do not submit if you have implants (移植物)." Surgically enhanced breasts might still be considered sexy or essential by airhead starlets and models. but the new buzzword(时髦语) in America is"authenticity". That's why. for women in the public eye. having fake breasts is looking increasingly less like a career move and more like career suicide. Another indication thatfake breasts are going bust is the fact that television shows such as Extreme Makeover and The Swan (TV which promised to nip and tuck ordinary women into goddesses) have been cancelled. while statistics from theAmerican Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery show that the number of breast enlargements in America fellfrom 365,000 to 312,000 last year.

In many surveys. research has shown that the larger the breasts, the more stupid a woman is considered to be. Other women,meanwhile, consider women with large breasts as a threat-so having a surgical enhancement is a lose-lose situation. Chantelle Houghton (from Big Brother remember her?) almost immediately regrettedgelling implants to boost her chest and admits that they were "taking over her life". and she had io resort to physiotherapy to deal with the back pain they caused. Even Sharon Osbourne, voted the queen of nip and tuck(整容手术), said recently: "I wish I'd never had my breasts done. It's like having a waterbed on your chest I hate them. I want to have the bags taken out-then I'll put them on eBay."

The more stories we hear like this the better. because then perhaps young women will realize that large breasts aren’t che assets they think they are-or Hollywood has made them out to be.

1. What is the new trend in Hollywood as to women’s bodies?

2. For mindless starlets and models. plastic breasts might be___________________.

3. That surgically enhanced breasts are not popular is manifested by the______________ of some TV shows.

4. According to many surveys. if a woman has large breasts. she will be regarded as_______________by otherwomen.

5. The author hopes that through some real stories, young women can be aware that large breasts____________________as they think.

答案：

1.[A return to reality.]

[定位]根据题干中的Hollywood和women's bodies查找到第1段第2句。

解析：本段第1句中的no longer道出整形潮流的改变。第2句指出，好莱坞对女性身材也要求回归真实自然，题干中as towomen's bodies对应原文中的when it comes to women's bodies，答案可在该句主句中找到。英语六级总分

2.[sexy or essential]

[定位]根据题干中的starlets and models查找到第2段第2句。

解析：题干中的mindless和plastic breasts分别为原文中airhead和surgically enhanced breasts的同义替换，所以原文中considered后的sexy or essential为本题答案。

3.[cancellation]

[定位]根据题干中的TV shows查找到第2段第4句。

解析：根据空白处前后的冠词和介词，推断这里需要填入一个名词。该句提到，另一个隆胸潮流不再的迹象，就是有些节目被取消了(have been cancelled)，因此需将cancelled转化为其名词形式cancellation。

4.[a threat]

[定位]根据题干中的surveys, large breasts以及other women查找到第3段第2句。

解析：题干将原文主动句改成了被动句，原文中的consider... as 对应题干中的regarded as,故原文中的as的宾语a threat就是答案。

5.[aren't the assets]

[定位]根据题干中的young women，large breasts以及they think查找到第4段。

解析：原文最后一段说，这样的真实故事听得越多，也就越明白丰满的胸部并不像想象中的那样是一种优势，题干表达相同的意思，比较原文与题干，可知aren't the assets为答案。

(编辑实习：王晓晓)