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Unit 2 Secrets to beauty

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Before learning this unit, read the following paragraph and think about the questions.

Since the beginning of time, beauty has been a highly valued part of life in every culture. While a love of beauty in life is universal, each culture has defined beauty in its own unique way. In modern times, with instant access to media like television, magazines, and the Internet, our senses are filled with consistent images of idealized beauty. These images fuel a passionate desire to preserve youth and to achieve unreachable standards of beauty through makeup and other products. Yet, all who live will grow older, and outward beauty alone can never make a beautiful life. Do you think the constant force of the unattainable images of beauty presented in the media places too much stress on people today? How important is physical attractiveness to success? What do you believe are the main elements for a truly beautiful or a perfect life?

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Text A The confusing pursuit of beauty

1 If you're a man, at some point a woman will ask you how she looks.

2 You must be careful how you answer this question. The best technique is to form an honest yet sensitive response, then promptly excuse yourself for some kind of emergency. Trust me, this is the easiest way out. No amount of rehearsal will help you come up with the right answer.

3 The problem is that men do not think of their looks in the same way women do. Most men 内容过长，仅展示头部和尾部部分文字预览，全文请查看图片预览。 lying. She has spent countless hours worrying about the differences between her looks and Cindy Crawford's. Also, she suspects that you're not qualified to voice a subjective opinion on anybody's appearance. This may be because you have shaving cream in your hair and inside the folds of your ears.

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