It's the week before school starts. Alice is shopping for clothes with two friends, Nina and Vicki. Alice puts on a black jacket, turns to her friends, and says, “Hey, what do you think?”
The girls look at her and both start laughing. “No way, Alice!”
Nina laughs. “That's a man's jacket.”
Alice feels a little angry. “Yeah, well…I like it”:
“Yeah,” says Vicki, “but what will people at school say?”
Alice thinks for a moment. Then she takes off the jacket. “Yeah, you're right.”
We all know about it. Your friends wear certain clothes or listen to certain music. You don't want to be different. So you do those things too.
Fifteen minutes later. Alice is still thinking about the black jacket. “Yeah, there's peer pressure to follow others.” She explains. “If your clothes or hair are different, people make fun of you. You know, they laugh and point.”
Vicki agrees. “It's true .You even have a certain kind of boyfriend or girlfriend! I think these 'rules' are childish (幼稚的). But when you're different, you feel like an outsider. And that's hard.”
Alice walks away.
“Hey Alice,” calls Nina. “Where are you going?”
“To get the black jacket. I don't care what others think. I like it, and I'm buying it.”
1. Why does Alice take off the jacket?
A. It's too expensive.
B. She doesn't take enough money with her.
C. She doesn't like the color.
D. She's worried about her friends' opinions.
2. What is the meaning of peer pressure in this passage?
A. You want to be like your friends. So you do what they do.
B. You want to be different from your friends and classmates.
C. You want to give your clothes to your friends to wear.
D. You want to buy as many clothes as your classmates do.
3. What happens in the end?
A. Alice goes to buy the jacket.
B. Alice gets angry and goes home alone.
C. Alice doesn't buy the jacket.
D. Alice doesn't go shopping with her friends.
4. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Young people should follow others.
B. Girls have different ideas about the jacket.
C. Girls like wearing different kinds of clothes.
D. Young people care much about what others think.
