Unit 18 BeautyWhat is beauty in your mind?Everyone admires beauty. Everyone has his own standard about beauty.Nowadays some people tend to think that they own beauty if they have a good looking. They are not satisfied with their appearance. They spend much money taking a kind of operation. Can beauty really be manmade? If so, everybody can get beauty. As a result, there is no beauty at all.The appearance is given by our parents and is unique in the world. Everyone should value it. I prefer nature as the standard of beauty. Just accept yourself, accept everything the god gives to you, and create the beautiful life belonging to you.Many heroes don't have beautiful surface. However, their beautiful images often come to our minds. Their beauty comes from their contributions to the society.Don't be eager to judge whether a person is beautiful or not without a thorough understanding of him. A beautiful person is not the one with a good looking, but with a broad and kind heart.Good looking is pleasant while spiritual beauty is more important. As an old saying goes, “Virtue is fairer than beauty.” If you have a kind heart, you own real beauty.Section_ⅠWarm up _&_Lesson_1_—_Pre reading ,Beauty is in the eye of the beholderIn 1878, when Margaret Wolfe Hungerford① wrote “②Beauty is in the eye of③ the beholder④” ， she was stating that there was no consistent⑤ view on beauty. Standards of beauty change across time and cultural groups.Traditions and fashions, like society itself, change and adapt⑥ with time, so it is reasonable that our ideas of beauty change as well.⑦ In 19thcentury Europe, women used to wear⑧ corsets⑨ ⑩to achieve a body shape that is no longer considered healthy....
