As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But Venezuela, whose beauty

As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But Venezuela, whose beauty queens have won Miss Universe and Miss World over six times, doesn’t leave it to chance. In Venezuela, girls as young as four can be found attending beauty schools, where they can learn a range of skills from how to walk to the correct way to hold a wine glass.
“Hair must always be pletely clean, make-up should look natural, and you should always, always wear high-heels,” advises Andrea Reyes, a teacher in a school of Caracas with 160 students.
Beauty contests are treated in Venezuela much as sporting petitions are elsewhere. Many Venezuelan parents believe that if their daughters can succeed and get the beauty crown, their future as famous and public persons is sure to e. As a result, the girls are trained to pete at a young age.
Among former beauty queens are Irene Saez, who went on to pete for the country’s president, and Eva Ekvall, whose battle with cancer helped to make more people know about the illness in Venezuela.
However, voices against the trend can be heard all over the country. At one time, a feminist (男女平等主义者) group tried to stop the Miss Venezuela broadcast. President Hugo Chavez has spoken out against the culture of plastic surgery(整形手术)in Venezuela, calling it a “frightening thing”.
The BBC reporter Sarah Grainger says that acceptance of the contests is partly a result of the country’s “machista” (大男子主义的) view of the different roles that men and women should play, “Men are supposed to be strong and brave and women to be gentle and beautiful”.
Miss Universe 1996, Alicia Machado, knows the price to be paid when you’re no longer seen as attractive. After winning the beauty contest, she said all she wanted to do was “eat, eat and eat”. Her weight gain later and warning by the organizers of the contest to replace her as queen with the runner-up was among the hottest topics in the country, especially in Latin America.
【小题1】What’s the advice given by a teacher in Caracas to her students?A．Attending beauty schools as early as possible.B．Wearing high-heels at times.C．Washing your hair quite often. D．Fighting against cancer bravely.【小题2】Girls try to win in the beauty contest to    .A．try plastic surgeryB．practice the country’s “machista” viewC．earn a good futureD．eat as much as one pleases【小题3】We can learn from the passage that    .A．Venezuela girls have won Miss Universe and Miss World over six times by chanceB．In Venezuela, people judge men and women in quite different waysC．Eva Ekvall once peted for the country’s presidentD．Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has spoken out against beauty contests【小题4】What does the underlined word “runner-up” in the last paragraph mean?A．the news reporter covering the beauty contestB．the organizer of the beauty contestC．the girl who is slimD．the person who es in the second placeC