二、阅读理解：
Celebrity(名人) has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about specific film，but now the public tends to base its consumption (消费)on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product. Besides，fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover because they don’t sell nearly as well as famous faces. As a result.celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential, moving from advertising for others’products to developing their own.
Celebrity clothing lines aren’t a completely new phenomenon，but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers，and limited to a few TV actresses. Today they’re started by first?class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands. The most successful start?ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market，they expand their production scale rapidly, covering almost all the products of daily life.
However，for every success story, there’s a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer appeal. No matter how famous the product’s origin is, if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self?promotional marketing. And once the initial (最初的) attention dies down, consumer interest might fade, loyalty (忠诚) returning to tried?and?true labels.
Today, celebrities face even more severe embarrassment. The pop?cultural circle might be bigger than ever, but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each_misstep_threatens_to_reduce_a_celebrity’s_shelf_life,_and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still，the ego’s (自我的)potential for expansion is limitless. Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition，many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered. As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only a short time, but fashion?like celebrity?has always been temporary.
1、 Fashion magazines today________.
A. seldom put models on the cover
B. no longer put models on the cover
C. need not worry about celebrities’market potential
D. judge the market potential of every celebrity correctly
【详解剖析】 细节理解题。由第一段“fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover”可知答案。
【最佳选项】 A
2、 A change in the consumer market can be found today that________.
A. price rather than brand name is more concerned
B. producers prefer models to celebrities for advertisements
C. producers prefer TV actresses to film stars for advertisements
D. quality rather than the outside of products is more concerned
【详解剖析】 推理判断题。文章第三段论述名人如果高估了自己的形象价值而忽视了质量问题，人们还是最终会失去兴趣而信任质量过硬的品牌。
【最佳选项】 D
3、 The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly________.
A. decrease the popularity of a celebrity and the sales of his products
B. damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general public
C. cut short the artistic career of a celebrity in show business
D. influence the price of a celebrity’s products
【详解剖析】 推理判断题。联系此句上下文：流行文化圈越来越大，但失败的风险也会越来越大，依靠名人效应的品牌一旦失足，影响的不只是名人自己的形象还有企业的效益。A项最全面，其他选项片面或偏离中心。
【最佳选项】 A
4、 The passage is mainly about________.
A. celebrity and personal style
B. celebrity and market potential
C. celebrity and fashion design
D. celebrity and clothing industry
【详解剖析】 主旨大意题。通过对文章的分析可以看出，文章讲的是名人和市场潜能的关系，而不是和个人风格、流行设计、服装工业的关系。
【最佳选项】 B
