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It is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past. "Old ladies" are already becoming rare. In a few years, we may well believe, they will be extinctive．Ugliness is one of the symptoms of disease.(1)____ In so far as the campaign for more beauty is also a campaign for more health, it is admirable but genuinely successful.(2)____ Beauty that is merely the artificial shadow of these symptoms of health is intrinsically poorer quality than the genuine article.(3)____ The apparatus for mimicking the symptoms of health is now within the reach of every moderately prosperity person; the knowledge of the way in which real health can be achieved is growing, and will in time, no doubt, universally acted upon.(4)____(5)____ When that happy moment comes, will every woman be beautiful-as beautiful, at any rate, as the natural shape of his features, with or without surgical and chemical aid permits?(6)____
The answer is obvious: No. For real beauty is as much an
affair of the inner as the outer self.(7)____ The beauty of a porcelain jar is the matter of shape, of colour, of surface texture.(8)____ The jar may be empty or tenanted by spiders, full of honey or stinking slime-itmakes no difference as to its beauty or ugliness. But a woman is lively, and her beauty is therefore not skin deep.(9)____(10)____ The surface of the human vessel is affected by the nature of its spiritual contents.

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文章大意
本文讨论的是外在美与内在美。越来越多的女性能够更长久地保持青春的容貌，这是成功的一面。美丽意味着健康，从某种程度上说，追求美丽也是追求健康，可是模仿健康的外表，制造人为的假象，这样的美丽本质上要稍逊一筹。真正的美丽关乎外在的自我，也关乎内在的自我。女性是活生生的，因此她的美丽不仅仅是外表的，更是受到精神内涵的影响。
答案详解
1．extinctive→extinct词汇错误。extinctive表示“使消减的；消灭的”，这里是说“老太太”现在很少见了，在几年后可能彻底地销声匿迹，extinct本身就是形容词，表示“灭绝的，消逝的”，放在这里符合语义。
2．but→and语篇错误。本句前半部分是说“追求美丽也是追求健康，这种努力是值得赞许的”，接下来提到“也真的获得了成功”，从语义逻辑上判断是一致的，并没有转折的意味，所以用and连接，表示并列关系。
3．∧poorer→of语法错误。本句主语是Beauty，后面是that引导的定语从句，主句则是beauty…is intrinsically poorer quality，此处表示的意思是“这种美丽是品质低劣的”，intrinsically足副词，这里应该用来修饰形容词，所以用“of+名词”的结构，相当于形容词。
4．prosperity→prosperous语法错误。prosperity是名词，表示“兴旺，繁荣”，不能直接搭配名词person，也不能被副词moderately修饰，所以应改为形容词形式prosperous。本句意为“如今每个中等富裕的人都买得起相关装备以装扮出健康模样”。
5．∧universally→be语法错误。本句的意思是“如何真正获得健康的知识在日益增长，且无疑会得到适时而普遍的推广”，主语是the knowledge，谓语是act upon（推广），两者是被动关系，因此要加be动词形成被动语态，由于前面有will，直接用be即可。
6．his→her词汇错误。此处不是用his作人称代词指代every person，而是前文提到的every woman，因此要改为her。
7．as∧→of语法错误。此处是内在美与外在美的比较，as... as...结构，第二个a的对象是an affair of the outer self，为了避免重复，an affair可以省略，但of不能省略，否则就成了an affair of the inner和the outer self的对比了，形式不对称，故要在as后加of。
8．the(matter)→a词汇错误。这里首次提到瓷瓶，强调它的美丽是取决于它的形状、颜色和表面质地，并未特指某个瓷瓶及其形状，仅仅是泛指，用来与人的美丽进行比较，所以将定冠词改成不定冠词。
9．as→as语法错误。此处不是词组a to“关于”，而是固定搭配make no difference to“对……没有影响”，故删掉as。本句意为“瓶子可以是空的，可以由蜘蛛入住，可以装满蜂蜜，也可以装满发恶臭的烂泥，这一切都影响不到瓷瓶的美或丑”。
10. lively→alive词汇错误。lively和alive都是形容词，但表示的含义有所不同。lively表示“充满活力的，活泼的”，在此处与上下文不符。前文将瓷瓶的美与人的美作比较，强调人是活的，因此要用alive。