Celebrity(名人) has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption(消費) 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(忠誠) 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.
小題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
小題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
小題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
小題4:The passage is mainly about         .
A．celebrity and personal styleB．celebrity and market potential
C．celebrity and fashion designD．celebrity and clothing industry

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:A
小題4:B

試題分析:本文是一篇說明文，說明了名人已成為流行文化的重要代表，但是今天，名人面臨更加嚴峻的尷尬。流行文化圈比以往大，其周轉(zhuǎn)速度也加快，名人每一次的失誤都會減少他們的知名度，和他們產(chǎn)品的銷售
小題1:細節(jié)題，由第一段第三行fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover…可以知道答案，故選A。
小題2:推理題，由第二段第三行they’re started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands.可以推出答案，所以選D。
小題3:推理題，由最后一段倒數(shù)第四行Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered可以推出答案，所以選A
小題4:推理題，由本文的主要意思“名人已成為流行文化的重要代表，但是今天，名人面臨更加嚴峻的尷尬。流行文化圈比以往大，其周轉(zhuǎn)速度也加快，名人每一次的失誤都會減少他們的知名度，和他們產(chǎn)品的銷售”可以推出答案，所以選B
點評：這篇文章比較抽象，關鍵在于正確理解，理解了文章主旨后，再關注細節(jié)，所有的問題迎刃而解
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