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There She Is - China's First Miss Plastic Surgery
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1. How old was the oldest contestant?
A. 17
B. 22
C. 49
D. 62

2. Who had had the most operations?
A. the winner
B. the first runner up
C. the second runner up
D. Miss World

3. Why do women in China have plastic surgery?
A. to get married
B. to work for television
C. to look like movie stars
D. almost 10,000 yearsto become movie stars

4. What does Feng Qian believe made her win?
A. confidence
B. connections
C. plastic surgery
D. sense of humour

5. Why did Feng Qian not participate in the Miss World Competition?
A. She is married.
B. She was too young.
C. She had to wait for the operation wounds to heal.
D. Contestants who had plastic surgery are usually banned from beauty pageants.


Synonyms: Which of the following words or phrases replace the ones from the passage best?
6. buoyant
A. cute
B. happy
C. beautiful
D. successful

7. stigma
  A. cost
B. shame
C. hardship
D. depression

8. pageant
A. win
B. topic
C. parade
D. profession

9. augmentation
A. reduction
B. smoothing
C. colouration
D. enlargement

10. dream up
A. invent
B. disqualify
C. search for
D. be afraid of


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