Задание
Read the text and choose the headings for each paragraph.
- Объекты 1
- The green ocean sparkles in the sunshine and tall palm trees wave gently in the wind. Young women roller-skate along the pavement, a young sun-tanned lifeguard walks along the beach. This is Huntingdon Beach, just south of Los Angeles, where everyone seems to be young and beautiful.
- It is also the home of a successful surgeon, Dr. Stephen Marquardt, who believes that he has discovered a scientific formula for measuring beauty. And in a city like Los Angeles, where being attractive means everything, this kind of knowledge could be worth a fortune.
- He is by no means the first person to try to discover exactly what makes people attractive. The ancient Greeks were among the first to look into the question. Plato believed that it should be possible to define a beautiful face in terms of mathematics. Over the centuries, others continued the hunt for the formula, but without any real success.
- Dr. Marquardt, however, says he has now found the answer. He has developed a practical way of measuring beauty, which he calls “the mask”. This is the series of lines and shapes making up a face. There are specific, set distances between all the features and the outside shape, and it shows the exact proportions that the ideally beautiful face should have.
- By laying the mask over a photograph of a face, it is possible to see how attractive someone is – the more a face fits the mask, the more beautiful it is said to be. The fact that the mask can measure the beauty of men, women and people, of different races makes it a particularly useful instrument.
- It is alarming to think that, if we all start changing the way we look, there may soon be thousands of individuals wandering the streets of Los Angeles looking exactly the same. But it is even more alarming that people may begin to think they are unattractive if their face does not have the proportions of Dr. Markquardt's mask.
- This would be a great mistake, because there are two sorts of beauty – one is the beauty of the mask, the measurable beauty of the face. The other sort is the kind that we see when we love someone, a much more powerful, enduring beauty that comes from the heart. This is the beauty expressed by poets, the beauty that does not fade, and it is something that no plastic surgeon on earth can give you.
- Объекты 2
- Land of youth and beauty
- The latest solution
- An unsuccessful search
- An important discovery
- An adaptable tool
- Worrying thoughts
- Forever beautiful