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pervasive [pəˈveɪsɪv]
adj. 普遍的；到处渗透的；流行的
A sense of social change is pervasive in her novels.
她的小说里充斥着社会变化的意识。
A woman cries and a man loses his temper; that seems to be the pervasive theme in many conflicts.
女人哭了起来，男人就没了脾气；在许多的冲突中，这好像是一个普遍的现象。
2 Girls’ attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.
What’s more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses. When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength.
It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.
amplify [ˈæmplɪfaɪ] v. 放大，增强(声音等)
dominant [ˈdɒmɪnənt] adj. 首要的，主要的
strategy[ˈstrætədʒi] n. 策略，战略，计策
Come into one’s own 开始流行
inherently[ɪnˈhɪərəntli] adv. 天性的，固有的
critical [ˈkrɪtɪkl] adj. 极重要的，至关紧要的
It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.
本句的句子主干为It was not until the mid-1980s…that pink fully came into its own…，
其中使用了 it was not until…that的强调句型。
第一个When引导的定语从句when amplifying … marketing strategy修饰the mid-1980s；
第二个when引导的也是定语从句，在该从句中，inherently attractive to girls和part of what defined them as female为seem的并列表语，
其中what引导宾语从句，at least for the first few critical years为时间状语。
It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.
直到20世纪80年代中期，年龄增大和两性差别成为幼儿用品市场的主导销售战略时，粉色才开始流行并受到女孩的 青睐，成为定义女性特征的一部分，至少在起初的那几个关键年份是如此。
3 I had not realized how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kids, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Take the toddler. I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children’s behavior: wrong.
Turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularized as a marketing trick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s.
A. cannot explain girls’ lack of imagination
B. should not be associated with girls’ innocence
C. should not be the sole representation of girlhood
D. cannot influence girls’ lives and interests
参考答案：C
27、According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is true of colours？
A. Colors are encoded in girls’ DNA
B. Blue used to be regarded as the colour for girls
C. White is preferred by babies
D. Pink used to be a neutral colour in symbolizing genders
参考答案：B
28、The author suggests that our perception of children’s psychological development was much influenced by_ .
A. the observation of children’s nature
B. the marketing of products for children
C. researches into children’s behavior
D. studies of childhood consumption
参考答案：B
29、We may learn from Paragraph 4 that department stores were advised to_ .
A. classify consumers into smaller groups
B. attach equal importance to different genders
C. focus on infant wear and older kids’ clothes
D. create some common shoppers’ terms
参考答案：A
30、It can be concluded that girls’ attraction to pink seems to be_ .
A. fully understood by clothing manufacturers
B. clearly explained by their inborn tendency
C. mainly imposed by profit-driven businessmen
D. well interpreted by psychological experts
参考答案：C
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