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(2025·安徽省临泉第二中学高三下期中考试)Adolescents' enthusiasm for beauty products is nothing new. Today, however, skin care is a far more serious business. Gone are the days of teens aimlessly browsing random drugstores by day and dirtying their pillows with bronzer by night. Now, kids don't just know how to get cleaned up properly, but also they've taken to beauty products with greater enthusiasm. Ridiculous as it sounds, that craze is sharply unpleasant.

The closer you look at the teen skin care craze, the more issues appear. Doctors report children as young as nine coming to their offices for cosmetic consultations.Teens are crazy about the so­called “preventative” anti­aging properties of a brand, and the Internet is filled with youngsters seeking solutions to their “wrinkles”. All this comes with harmful undercurrents less familiar to the adults who went before them.

Adult products boasting “anti­aging, tightening, wrinkle­reducing, brightening and firming” effects are likely to include ingredients unsuitable for kids' skin, which is yet to form the protective barriers necessary to handle them, and therefore teens may develop allergies to some ingredients.Moreover, their prices remain decidedly grown­up, and the potential cost overall is breathtaking. This might put economical pressure on kids and on the parents who often foot the bill.

“Preventative” anti­aging is a perfect trick for companies willing to take advantage of youthful insecurities. There's no way of knowing what you'd have looked like if you hadn't used the products, but you can certainly assume you'd look worse if you stopped. Once teens get a little older, an additional world of non­surgical procedures becomes available to them, the cost of which can run into the thousands.

Until just several years ago, parents' main beauty­related concern was that their kids might go out wearing “too much” makeup. When I was growing up, I experimented, with minimal investment, and then I moved on. That's how it should be. The most worrying thing about today's skin care craze isn't just that the financial and emotional buy­in are completely out of proportion to the

“need” being addressed. They may set kids up for lasting damage. So stay away from beauty products, young people!

篇章导读：本文是一篇议论文。文章主要讨论了青少年过度追求美容产品的现象，分析了该现象产生的原因及带来的问题，并呼吁青少年理性对待美容产品。

1．How does the author feel about teens' enthusiasm for beauty products?

A．Embarrassed.   B．Panicked.

C．Negative.   D．Confused.

答案：C

解析：推理判断题。根据第一段中的“Ridiculous as it sounds, that craze is sharply unpleasant.”可推知，作者对青少年热衷于美容产品持否定态度。故选C。

2．Why do teenagers have a passion for beauty products?

A．They tend to make comparisons with others.

B．They are uncertain about their physical changes.

C．They are influenced by online information about health.

D．They try to avoid high prices of non­surgical procedures.

答案：B

解析：细节理解题。根据第四段中的“‘Preventative’ anti­aging is a perfect trick ... youthful insecurities.(‘预防性’抗衰老对于那些愿意利用年轻人不安全感的公司来说是一个完美的噱头。)”可知，青少年对身体变化感到不确定，从而热衷于美容产品。故选B。

3．What does the author focus on in the last paragraph?

A．The right attitude to beauty products.

B．Teenagers' misuse of beauty products.

C．The solution to kids' beauty­related issues.

D．Parents' concern about kids' craze for makeup.

答案：A

解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段可知，作者先是对比了过去和现在关于青少年美容的情况，然后强调了如今护肤狂热的危害，最后直接呼吁年轻人远离美容产品，由此可推知，最后一段作者强调了青少年对美容产品应持有的正确态度。故选A。

4．Which can be the best title for the text?

A．How to get rid of annoying wrinkles

B．A new trend: “Preventative” anti­aging

C．What to blame for fake beauty products

D．A warning sign: Teens' craze for skin care

答案：D

解析：标题判断题。文章开篇指出青少年对美容产品的热情这一现象，接着分析了这一现象带来的问题，最后呼吁青少年远离美容产品。由此可知，文章主要是对青少年热衷护肤品这一现象发出警告。D项(一个警告信号：青少年对护肤品的狂热)适合作为文章的最佳标题。故选D。

词汇：①boast v. 自夸；拥有　②barrier n. 屏障,③handle v. 应对，处理　④breathtaking  adj. 惊人的　⑤foot the bill 支付账单

佳句：Gone are the days of teens aimlessly browsing random drugstores by day and dirtying their pillows with bronzer by night.

那些青少年白天漫无目的地闲逛药妆店，夜晚用古铜粉弄脏枕头的日子一去不复返了。

(2025·安徽省合肥市第九中学高三下限时训练)Women were less likely than men to support the Vietnam war, the Gulf war, or the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. They commit far fewer murders. They are less likely to favor strikes. For some scholars, these are grounds for thinking that a world run by women would be more peaceful.

But European history suggests otherwise, according to political scientists Oeindrila Dube and S．P. Harish. They studied how often European rulers went to war between 1480 and 1913, and found that states ruled by queens were 27% more likely to get involved in wars than those ruled by kings.

This was not all the queens' fault: men, seeing them as soft targets, tended to attack them. Frederick the Great of Prussia once declared: “No woman should ever be allowed to govern anything.” Shortly after becoming king, he attacked the newly crowned Archduchess of Austria, Maria Theresa, and seized Silesia province. Despite years of war, she never recovered it.