Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. depression；B. ignore；C. popularity；D. fashionable；E. unwise；F. establish G. constantly；H. residence；I. embarrassment       ；J. carefully；K. latest

How we look and how we appear to others probably worry us more when we are in our teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life. Few of us are content to accept ourselves as we are, and few are brave enough to 【小题1】 the trends of fashion.

Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us that we should dress in a certain way or behave in a certain manner. If we do, they tell us, we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation without 【小题2】. Changing fashion, of course, does not apply just to dress. A barber today does not cut a boy’s hair in the same way as he used to, and girls do not make up in the same way as their mothers and grandmothers did. The advertisers show us the latest 【小题3】 styles and we are 【小题4】 under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or dull.

What causes fashions to change?   Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can 【小题5】 a fashion. Take hats, for example. In cold climates, early buildings were cold inside, so people wore hats indoors as well as outside. In recent times, the late President Kennedy caused a(n) 【小题6】 in the American hat industry by not wearing hats: more American men followed his example.

Today, society is much freer and easier than it used to be. It is no longer necessary to dress like everyone else. Within reason, you can dress as you like or do your hair the way you like in stead of the way you should because it is the fashion. The 【小题7】 of jeans and the “untidy” look seems to be a reaction against the increasingly expensive fashions of the top fashion houses.

At the same time, appearance is still important in certain circumstances and then we must choose our clothes 【小题8】. It would be foolish to go to an interview for a job in a law firm wearing jeans and a sweater; and it would be 【小题9】 to visit some distinguished scholar looking as if we were going to the beach or a night club. However, you need never feel depressed if you don’t look like the 【小题10】fashion photo. Look around you and you’ll see that no one else does either!