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LANGUAGE INSTITUTE

PASLE A2

Reading

Fill in the blanks by choosing the appropriate word. Then read the passage and be ready to ask and answer questions about its content. Please look up the meaning of new words.

Beauty and Body Image in the Media

Images of -------------bodies are everywhere. Women and their body parts sell everything from food to cars. Popular actresses are becoming younger, taller and thinner. Women’s magazines always tell their ------------------ that if they just lose those extra twenty pounds, they will have the perfect marriage, the perfect career and the perfect life. It’s not a secret that media portrays --------------- as beauty. Also, --------------tells people that age is a disaster and that they have to do everything to stay young. On the other hand, images of thin, young, air-brushed female bodies can ---------------- to depression, ------------- of self-esteem and the development of unhealthy eating -------------- in women and girls. In 2018, Teen magazine reported that 35 per cent of girls 6 to 12 years old are on at least one diet, and that 50 to 70 per cent of normal weight girls believe they are ------------------. Media activist Jean Kilbourne says that, "Women are sold to the diet industry by the magazines which make us feel anxious about our weight."

According to a recent research, one out of every four college girls uses ------------ methods of weight control such as ----------- skipping meals, excessive exercise, laxative abuse, and self-induced vomiting. Researchers report that women’s magazines have ten times more ---------- and articles promoting weight loss than men’s magazines do. Also, researchers say that threequarters of the covers of women’s magazines include at least one message about how to change a woman’s bodily appearance with diet, exercise or cosmetic surgery. Finally, researchers say that women who are insecure about their bodies are more --------------to buy beauty products, new clothes, and diet aids. It is estimated that the diet industry alone is --------------- $100 billion a year.

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