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1Sometime in the past 10 years, with collagen injections and the Fraxel laser, it became not only accepted but expected that celebrities would plot — and implement — 5 their expensive antiaging strategies well before the first sign of a line. While the gossip on awards show night used to be, "Did you see Meg Ryan's hair?" it became, "Did you see Meg Ryan's face?" (We doubt 10 her plasticsurgeon is experiencing the same surge in demand as Sally Hershberger, architect of her famous shag.)

Not that there's anything wrong with a little upkeep — most women today have 15 moderate views on cosmetic surgery. In 2006, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) revealed that 63 percent of women in this country approve of it, though just 34 percent wouldconsider it 20 for themselves. But Hollywood, never known for its self-control, is riding a new wave of cosmetic procedures — surgical and non — to an unrecognizable extreme. Sure, this has had some perfectly attractive, 25 rejuvenating effects on some stars, but many have been semi-shocking (Melanie Griffith).

One has to wonder: Are they — are we — really this uncomfortable with gettingolder, 30 or have cosmetic procedures become an obsession? After all: Jenna Jameson! Priscilla Presley! Courtney Love! Do they think we don't notice? Do they think they look good? And worse: Are they rubbing off 35 on the rest of us?

Plastic surgeons and dermatologists, a.k.a. the enablers, are the first to admit we've gone a little overboard. "You get to be 30 now, and you're old!" says Dr.Thomas 40 Romo III, director of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. "For [the entertainment] industry, the culture of youth is their job. And what is a youthful 45 face? Full, fat, smooth. But that doesn't look right on a 40-year-old." (Lisa Rinna, anyone?)
"A lot of people come in these days wanting more, and you have to say, 'No, yourlips 50 are big enough — and, in fact, would you mind going out my back door?'" says Dr. Steven H. Dayan, a Chicago facial plastic surgeon. "I probably dissuade 40 or 50 percent of those who come in."

55 Dr. Patricia Wexler, a prominent Manhattan dermatologist, says that some women who land in her waiting room are victims of the rubber-mask effect. "Their skin has no texture whatsoever; it'sbeen 60 peeled and lasered so much that it's lineless and has no pores. They ask for filling to augment a nose that's been reduced four times; they ask to fill cheeks that are already too big." …

1.-What is the main idea?
a) People who end look like Meg Ryan before the surgery.
b) The percentage of women who approve plastic surgery.
c) The lies about plastic surgery
d) Whathappen when a cosmetic procedures become an obsession

2.- In the line 6, the word “line” means:
a) Row
b) Wrinkle
c) Crease
d) Age


3.- What the author meant with “ Is riding a new wave” in line 21?
a) They are surfing
b) The women are using extremely aggressive products and procedures.
c) A new type of cosmetics and procedures
d) The women faces willbecome unrecognizable whit the surgeries.

4.- The acronym “a.k.a” in the line 36 means:
a) As know as
b) As keen as
c) As keep as
d) As kind as

5.- What the author meant whit the expression “rubber-mask”?
a) Women’s skin became softer.
b) It is a special cosmetic procedure.
c) Women´s faces have plastic texture.
d) A cosmetic procedure with plastic masks1 Humor writer David Sedaris was going for the laugh when he dubbed his aggressively sun-kissed sister a "tanorexic" in his 2000 memoir, Me Talk Pretty One Day, as if her 5 greatest afflictions were vanity. Now part of the modern lexicon, the term clearly and aptly evokes "anorexia" — which is no laughing matter. Undeterred by skyrocketing skin cancer statistics (the most 10 common cancer...