Write one word in each gap.
anti-fashion by lisa wilkinson
if you ask me, it's high time they (1) "did" away with fashion. i've had enough of it. just when i think i've finally got it right, i pop (2) ……. a clothes shop to find that they've changed all the rules! one minute it's cool to wear brand new expensive stuff, and the next you have to take all that (3) ……. and wear clothes that look as if they've been handed (4) by your grandma. you can't win! well, i've torn (5) ……. my fashion magazines and adopted anti-fashion. it's an idea that has grown (6) ……. of frustration and, to be honest, a lack of money to spend on yet another dress that i only wear once.
i started by drawing (7) ……. a plan. i decided to line all my clothes (8) ……. together, try them all (9) ……. and give to charity anything that either didn't fit or suit me. then, i wouldn't buy any more new clothes until something wore (10) ……. i went (11) ……. my plan again, and knew that i would have to be tough with myself. after all, i'd spent a lot of money on some of that stuff. finally, i plucked up the courage to do it. it felt a little bit like being a child again, dressing (12) ……. in your mum's clothes, but i also felt a great sense of freedom.
that was a year ago and, although i occasionally see something and think, 'oh, that's gorgeous! ', i haven't bought any clothes. if you ever come over to my house and i (13) ……. you around my bedroom, youmight see last season's fashions, but you'll also see a woman who feels free. and that's anti-fashion. do you think it'll catch (14) …….?
This is a question I have been thinking about for some time now. I have also done a lot of reading to find out what other people think. It`s a huge issue out there and quite controversial. I have been amazed to read the things that people think about teens. How we are irresponsible and out of control, even how our brains are incapable of making distinction between spending real money and "plastic money".
Really? It makes me wonder how much of the trillion dollars in consumer debt now owed in this country is due to teenage spending on credit cards. Not to be rude but I`m pretty sure most of that is adult spending. Perhaps teenagers aren`t the only ones who can be irresponsible with money…
2 I got up, had breakfast and then started to do my homework.
3 Where did you go last summer? - I went to the Usa to visit my friends.
4 She didn't mean to hurt her friend.
5 My grandfather used to work a lot when he was only 15.
6 What she did, was just awful. I never expected her to behave like that.
7 The police arrested him, but then they let him go.
8 Why were you so cruel with your sister?
9 he arrived at the office, signed the papers and then left for the meeting.
She never told me the whole truth no matter how persistantly I asked her.