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It was once considered extreme, but cosmetic surgery has become normalised. But is a more perfect self always a happier one?

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问题    It was once considered extreme, but cosmetic surgery has become normalised. But is a more perfect self always a happier one?
   "I think people chase compliments and once we start getting those, we want more," says Dr Frances Prenna Jones, a London-based cosmetic doctor who counts a plenty of magazine beauty editors and celebrities including Davina McCall and Louise Redknapp as clients. "Most women come to me and their concern is that they look ’tired’. They might not feel tired on the inside but they want the outside to reflect how they feel. Increasingly, I am using vitamin injections to give a natural, fresh-faced radiant appearance. Volume replacement is popular, too, but you need to take into account the naturally changing proportions of the face. If what you see is markedly different to what you expect, then it jars."
   "Over a very short period of time, what is considered normal and required practice in terms of ’routine maintenance’ has changed dramatically," says ethicist Professor Heather Widdows at Birmingham University, who is researching her book Perfect Me! "The assumption that a beautiful, more perfect self is a happier, more successful self is deep-rooted in popular discourse and the language used is exceptionally value loaded: we are urged to be ’the best we can be’ and to strive for our ’best selves’. We should do this because we’re ’worth it’—the implication being that if we don’t, we are responsible and blameworthy for ’letting ourselves go’," she says.
   Polly Vernon, author of Hot Feminist, believes that women have the right to choose and take ownership of their appearance. "But I would say that at this point in time women are surrendering to cosmetic surgery because they feel a pressure to," she says. "When we inject our faces with stuff, that doesn’t come from the same place as putting on a colourful lipstick. We are navigating a new world, where we are much more conscious of our image, and we must own it and delight in it, rather than do things because of social pressure. Appearance should be an extension of who you are, not about trying to be someone you think society wants you to be."
   "I do hear women talking about the pressure to look good," says Susan Harmsworth, founder and chairman of beauty company ESPA, who recently celebrated her 70th birthday and proudly claims she is regularly mistaken for a woman in her 50s—without having done anything other than led a healthy lifestyle with regular facial massages and skincare regime. "I know lots of high-profile, successful, intelligent women who have had work done, especially in the City, in banking and law, because they feel they need to look a certain way in the workplace, but once you start messing with your face, you start to look strange."
   Psychologist Ros Taylor, author of Confidence at Work, says: "The availability and accessibility of cosmetic procedures, the lack of stigma about having work done and the rise in women’s disposable income has meant the gateway is clear for this to become normalised. And it is only going to increase. I feel a little like King Canute seeing this wave coming and being unable to stop it."
   [A] holds a relatively negative attitude towards cosmetic surgery.
   [B] criticises those successful women for having cosmetic surgery.
   [C] thinks that appearance is not supposed to be decided by society but by oneself.
   [D] reminds people to consider natural changes of the face before having volume replacement
   [E] reveals that most women feel tired both physically and mentally.
   [F] explains that women’s increasing income promotes the normalization of cosmetic surgery.
   [G] indicates that our concept about routine maintenance has undergone huge changes.
Polly Vernon
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答案C
解析 Polly Vernon出现在第四段，在该段中，她表示：“我们正在一个新的世界里摸索，我们更注重形象。必须引以为豪，掌握对外貌的自主权，而不是仅仅屈服于社会压力。外貌是你这个人的延伸部分，而不是社会认为你应该有的形象。”意思就是说，我们的外貌应该由自己决定，而不该由社会来决定，不用由于社会压力而去整容。C表达的正是这个意思，故为本题答案。
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