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Report: H
ow are people w
ith tattoos perceived by society?
1 I In
trod
uctio
n
[ 1] Th
e art of tattooing is becom
ing very popular in today‘s culture. F
ive hunclred local citizens were interview
ecl in orcl巴
rto cliscover their attitudes to people w
ith tattoos. This report aim
s to tïncl out whether latto05 negatively 01
positively affect peo
ple's general characterization o
f others
5 II
Fin
dil1gs
1 P
ositive reactions
1.1 Form
of arl
[2] Tattooing has been a w
orlclwide pructice for m
ore than 5,000 years‘
and in muny cullllres‘
it is consiclerecl to be an aft for
l11. ln S
amoa. the tradition o
f applying a tattoo by hand has been unbrok已n
for I110re than :2、000
years. The skill
10 is often passed from
a fath巴r
to his son
, who learns the craft over m
any years 01' serving as his father's apprenlice T
attooing is a way 10 honour the past, to explore one
‘s inner self and to preserve a cultur巴for
the futllre. In toclay‘s
society, peopl巴
stillconsicler tatloos to be a form
of self-expression ancl a statem
ent of indivicluality. M
oreovel
、
tattooing is recognized by gov巴rnmenl
agencies as bolh an日rt
fon11 ancl a profession. T
attoo-related artwork is tbe
subj巴ct
01' I1luseU
l11s. galleries and educational institutions‘art show
s. Tattoos are also the subjecl 01' reality T
V sho
\Vs 15
For e
xample
、LA
lllk is a popular show in the U
S about the art of tattooing ancl the lattoo incluslry
1.2 Sym
bolic significance
[3] There are m
any 1巴aso
nsw
hy a person might get a tattoo. ln som
e cases lhe taltoo is not simply a visually
appealing design‘
but also a symbolic im
age. Th
e survey inclicates that 1110re people are getting tattoos. ancl doing 50
because they want them
for mem
orial purposes一-
as sym
bols of m
emories that are perso
nal ancl important to them
20
Seventy-three per cent 01' respondents said they got tattoos to rem
ember tbeir loved ones or pay tribut巴
topeople w
ho had passed aw
ay. F
ive per cent of responclents stated that the tattoos carri
巴cl
a sacr巴d
or spiritual meaning. T
hey hacl
reqllestecl clesigns of spiritual im
ages such as crosses, portraits of C
hrist and other sym
bols as they pertain to theiI ow
n spirituality. People also get tattoos to m
ark important events that have happened in their lives. T
en per cent of the
people polled had important dates sllch as a w
ed cIing anniversary 01' the birthday o
f a chilcl tattooecl on
their boclies. For
25 m
any‘tattoos are a w
ay to tell a story about their Iives in a meaningful and sig
nitïcant way
2 N
egative reactions
2.1 T
attoos in the workplace
[4] There are com
panies ancl indllstries that位
.'estilJ opposecl to body art. T
hose
who have the pow
er to hir巴,pro
l11ote and fire staff in a company are less inclined
30 to accept tattoos. P
巴ople
who have tattoos are perceived to b
巴rebelliolls;
the tattoo is a visible sign that they m
ay not be a team player o
r m巴
cliffjcultto m
anag巴.
While this m
ay not be true in reality, it is the w
ay corporate cultures see it. People
have been 1吋ectecl
frol11 jo
bs because they have tattoos in visible places on their necks
‘faces and hancls that clothinσcannot conceal. Research has show
n that 8%
-35
of people w
ith tattoos report trollble at work
‘from being forcecl to hicle them
to being restricted from
perfor l11ing certain tasks. For巴xample
,a supermarket
employee w
ith a tattoo on their hand may be askecl to perform
tasks that ar它less
likely to bring thel11 in contact w
ith the pllblic, like stocking shelves instead of
working at the register. SO
l11e companies hav
巴askecl
employees to cover up their
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5
%
N。
15%
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Yes
、『可圓圓圓--
80% 。
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40 tattoos
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ne巴clto cove凹r
th唸巴mw
hen at woαrk 0αra削tan unpoαrt切an叫1t
巴V巴n叫.1t,w
ithollt anyone telling fhem to do it. E
ighty per cent o
f the people surveyecl believed that tattoos wO
llld create obstacles in people' s careers. They w
Olllcl not get a
tattoo for fear that they woulcllose a jo
b opportllnity
2.2 Associations w
ith crime ancl violence
的[5]
In some societies
‘tattoos are regarcled as
llnsavoury because they are associated with gangs
and criminals. F
or example
、gang
mem
bers use tattoos o
f clragons、tigers
ancl other symbols in orclel
to mak已
th巴mselves
and their loyalties identifiable 50
Cri l11inals have tattoos thal show
their skills. accom
plishments ancl convictions. F
or example.
a tattoo of a tearclrop can m
ean murder. w
ith each tearclrop sym
bolizing the death of a fri巴
ncI.
Oflhe
500 people polled. 75
% had negative im
ages of
55 people w
ith tattoos ancl associated them w
ith gangs‘ violence ancI crim
inal activities. ln Japan, 111巴
mbers
01' the organizecl criminal gangs know
n as the Y
akllza are all marked w
ith tattoos that depict th巴Ir
Do γ
Oll tend fo link fattoos H
'ith gangs alld violence?
100
80 1-一一一
“一,一一一一一一一一一一-一一一-一一-一一一-一一一一一一一一-一-
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40
20
Yes
N。
Don't know
/ not sure
clan's cres
l. Many om
ens (hot springs) ancl capsule hotels in Japan do nol admil people w
ith tatto肘,
regarcIless of the
60 size o
f them. G
ymnaS
i1ll11S reqllire tattoos to be wrappecl, and ev
巴n
allluseInent parks ban people w
ith tattoos I‘rOI11
entering. Th
e business ow
ners 01' these plac巴s
have the perception that people with taltoos are associatecI w
ith the Y
akuza ancl clo nol want their businesses to b
巴linked
with crim
inals
2.3 Stereotypes
[6] Many people are juclgecl basecl on having a tattoo
. Tho
se with tattoos are seen to be com
pulsive, lack sel f-control
65 or hav
e low self-esteem
. People, especially the older generations, clo not undersland w
hy others wO
llld pllrposely
inflict pain on them
selves. A stucly discoverecl that chilclren betw
een six and ten years old were prone to negatively
stereotyping tattooed men. T
he implication is lhat young chilclren w
ill always think 01' lhe tattooed m
an as bacl‘even if he has not com
mittecl a crim
巴.In our sllrvey
, a qllarter of the people poll
巴d
believed that wom
en who had tattoos w
ere craving attention or w
ere ins巴cure
about their app巴ara
l1c巴.T
hey operatecl 011 the assul11p
lÌon that an intelligent wom
an
70 w
ould not choose lo do that to her body
111 CO
llclusiol1
[7] AccorcIing to the reporl findings
司il
is clear that there are both positive and negative perceptions of p
巴oplew
ho have tattoos. H
oweve r. people have different reasons for getting tattoos ancl should not be pl
貝jlldged
basecl on their choic巴
10
get a tattoo
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011 cosptct~ 1 ll] C
osplay 01啥inated
in Japan in 198-l w
hen N
ov Takahashi. the founder o
f the Japanese anime
ancl manga publishing com
pany Stuclio Hard
、attencled
a sci-fi convention in Los A
ngeles. He w
as impressecl
5 by the fans he saw
who took the tim
e to dress lIP in costum
es. He brollght the idea over to Japan
, where
it became a national phenom
enon, ancl went on to
coin th巴term
cosplay. Cosplay
‘an abbreviation 1'01'
'costllme role-play
'. can be c1escribed as a typ巴of
10 perform
ance art in which participants c1ress up in
costllmes ancl w
ear accessories to resemble characteI
品
froI11 anim
e‘m
anga. vicl巴o
games and sci-fi ancl
fantasy films. W
hen cosplayers are in costlll11e. th巴y
‘11
adopt the manneris
I11s ancl bocly Ianguage 01' the
15 characters they aJ芯
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[2] In Japan. teenagers engage in cosplày in many
'、
different areas. bllt S0111e places arc more com
mon
than others. sllch as Tokyo
‘s Har句
ukllclistri仗
,a
poplllar teenage gathering place knowIl for its street
20 fashion
. Cosplayers can also be I"ouncl in T
okyo‘S
Akihabara district、
where
there are a larg巴number
ot cosplay cafes in w
hich waitresses c1ress up as anim
e ancl gam
e characters. Also
、cosplay
parties are often held at nightclubs and am
usement parks
25 [3J W
hiJe cosplay originated in Japan, it has becom
e increasingly poplllar in othel
倒eas
of the w
orld,
like the United S
tates, H
ong KOl嗨,
Taiw
an ancl the P
hilippines. Many cosplayers can be fO
llnd at various conventions, catering specifically to fans of m
anga, 30
comic books ancl video gam
es. At these events
‘
people gather to buy their favourite manga or com
ics C
osplayers show off their costum
es ancl pos巳for
photos. Costum
e contests are often the highlight of
many conventions. T
hey giv巴cosplayers
the chance 35
to be rewarded for all o
f the hard work they put into
making their costllm
es
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[4] Costllm
es can b巴simple
or elaborate‘stor巴
-bought
01' hom
e-made. M
aking their own costum
es enables cosplay
巴rs
to create one tbat accurately resembles
40 their favourite charact
巴r.as w
ell as to take pride in the fact that they m
ade it themselves
[51 Cosplay should not be m
istaken for Hallow
een costum
e wear. T
he goal of cosplay is interpretation
一
to portray a character as pr巴:ciselyas possible
-1.5 C
osplayers will learn crafting specialties such as
sculpture‘
face paint ancl fashion design in an effort to create the look ancl texture o
f a costume accllralely
During a convention
‘th巴
reare oft巴
nrules of etiquette
when it com
es to costuIlles. Y
ou neecl to be respectflll 50
of cosplayers and ask for perm
ission to touch another person
‘s costume
‘becallse some costum
es might have
parts that are fragile. Also
, cosplayers have taken the tim
e to perfect their costumes so m
oving sometbing
even sligbtly out of place could alter their characteI
‘S 60
representation
[6] At conventions‘cosplayers can also participate
in a cosplay masquerade
, which is a N
orth Am巴ncan
invention. Th巴cosplay
masquerade has its roots in
two traclitions: the talent contest and the masqll
巴rade
65 ball, a party w
here the participants hicle their iclentities by w
earing costumes and m
asks. The masqueracl
巴
involves mllch m
ore than basic cosplay: one not only
attempts to look like a chm
acter bllt also to behave and talk in the w
ay the character would. D
lIring a 70
masglleracle、cosplay
teams w
ill compete for tw
o prizes -
craftsmanship ancl pr巴
sentation-
by pelform
ing a choreographed routine to a pre-recorcled song w
hich is oft巴n
a parody of a fam
iliar anime
scene
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75 [7] W
hen a cosplayer portrays a character of the
opposite sex, it is called crossplay. Portraying a
character who dresses as the opposite sex (from
the cosplayer) is called crossdress. F
or巴xample
,a fem
ale cosplayer representing a male character w
ho 80
wears m
asculine clothing is both crossdressing and crossplaying. A
female cosplayer representing a m
ale character w
ho wears unisex or fem
inine clothing is crossplaying but not crossdressing. B
ecause there are m
any male charact
巴rs
with delicate and androgynolls
的featllres
in manga, cosplayers w
ill crossplay and crossdress
[8] The Q
ni1l1egao. or dollers. represent a subgroup in cosplay. T
hey are mascot-style role-players w
ho portray characters by w
earing olltfits that completely
90 cover their bodies. D
ollers are often male cosplayers
portraying female characters. T
here are also f,巴male
dollers who portray m
ale characters such as robots. space aliens and anim
als. Tbey w
ear a mask that
looks like a human cartoon character, w
ith oversized 95
ey巴s
and a tiny mouth as illustrated in m
anga. and a bodysuit o
f what the c
h位'acter
wears
[9] The largest event featllring cosplay is the
semi-annual C
omiket, the w
orld's largest comic
convention. This event is held in Japan during the
100 SlIm
mer and w
inter. Thousands o
f cosplayers gather on the roof o
f the exhibition centr巴even
when it
的unbearably
hot or cold. The largest event for
cosplayers outside Asia is the annual S
an Diego
Com
ic-Con
, held in the United S
tates
105 [10] 1n H
ong Kong
‘m
any comic conventions ancl
video game show
s have cosplay contests as aclded attractions. T
he Asia G
ames S
how and A
ni-Com
&
Gam
es Hong K
ong Fair are tw
o m吋or
events fOI cosplay
巴nthusias
胞.C
osplayers get the chance to show
110 off their costllm
es for an audi巴nce
as well as com
pete for prizes. T
he appearanc巴of
cosplayers at these events m
ak的
them
a poplllar draw for photographers
Dressed in elaborate costum
es to look like their favourite anim
e or game character
、cosplayers
pose 115
in designated areas for photωograph 巴臼rsw
ho eag 巴臼rlcapture th巴
irevery m
ove. They enjoy 1110m
ents of
being in the spotlight like a celeblity
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The body piercing tren
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By
Sancly Yau
1 [1) B
ocly piercing has bec0111e increasingly pop1
l1ar am
ong young p巴opleancl c巴lebrities
in tod
ay's society
Th
ey em
brace bocly piercing as a form o
f physica1
acl0fl1111ent ancl s巴lf-expression
5 [2)
‘We'v
e had 1110re cllstomers than
巴verb巴fore,'
said Johnny Tse
, a body piercer in Tsim
Sha T
sui ‘W
e have about 250 customers a m
onth, Th巴plercmg
bllsiness has b巴巴n
growing like ll1ad.'
[3) About 10 years ago
‘his shop w
as one of the
10 few
places that offered service for all typ巴so
fbo
dy
piercings. A
Jthough Tse has m
ore competltors now
‘
his business is mllch better
[4)‘M
any of m
y custOll1ers are teenagers or people
in th巴ir
20s, bllt thel巴are
all kinds of people g巴ttll1g
15 piercings,' h
巴saicl
[5) Th
e most popular type 01' piercing is ear lobe
piercing, which is a traditional practic巴
inC
hina ancl
the most acceptable on
巴in
Hong K
ong. T
he next
choice is belly bl1tton piercing
, which is done m
ostly 20
by wom
en. Tse saicl his fema1
巴customers
consicler it
25 [7)
‘1 got my eyebrow
pierced a y巴arago becallse
1 wantecl to 'b巴long'
. Allm
y tú
end
s wer巴doing
it
and 1 felt 1eft out. I try not to b巴as
inflllencecl by peer pressur巴
theseclays,' said D
iana, a 16-year-01cl
stuclent
30 [8] C
elebrities who have piercings have also been a
driving force of the popularity o
f body piercing. Ev巴n
in Hong K
ong there are many pop stars w
ho
sport
piercings、which
makes this forIl1
of bocly art seem
acc巴ptable
as weJl as fashionable for teens, especially
35 thos巴
who
are fans 01' tbeirs
[9] Y哎
,som
e people are still hesitant abollt g巴
ttll1g
piercings because they' re afraid of being j lIclg巴cl
by society. H
arvey Li
, a thircl-year university student,的
interestecl in getting a tongue pi巴rcingbut is ho1ding
40 back beca
l1se he‘s currently applying for jo
bs ancl
doesn‘t think it 100ks professional. S
om
e companí巴S
frown upon bocly piercings ancl w
ill ask巴mployees
with piercings to rem
ove them w
hen they are working
in the office
to b巴sexy
and !rencly. 1
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are a nUI1-r'ber o
f i巴asons
why people get
i \
bocly piercings. So
me teenagers clo it t~~crease their
~
social statlls among peers.
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Body piercÎng as (/ form
of body art (lIu[
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izyluLEt甘心么;去五
?lQItq2川im
perative that you do yo
ur research first. W
hile body
piercing may be trendy
, there are som
e health risks rt\
that com
e with trying to m
ake a stylish statem
ent. \!..)
D巴pencling
on the bocly part, the healing time can
50 b巴anywhere
from a few
weeks to m
ore than a yem
Certain areas o
f the body can cause m
ore problem
s
than others. Th
ose w
ith mouth ancl nose piercings m
ay experience il1fection
一-
it' s a com
mo
n com
plication
since th巴re
are millions o
f bacteria that live il1 those 55
areas. To
ng
ue piercings can dam
age teeth ov
er time
AIso, tongue, cheek ancl lip piercings ca
l1 cause gum
probl巴ms
[J 1] Stuclies have show
n that people with certain
types of heart c1isease m
ight have a higher risk of
60 c1evelopil1g a 幟
~infection aftel;
,þoclbfPjercing
.,l( you have m
edièãYproblem
s such -asl al1èfgi郎
,dia'Bé'tes
,
i有\skin
c1isorclers or a cOl1c1ition that affects yO
Llr il11ll11111 'J system
, you shoulc1 consult a c1octor before getting a piercing. It's im
portant that you're w
ell il1formed 01'
65 the precautio
l1s to take to avoicl infectiol1
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and fungal infections, as well as transm
it viral
infections such as HIV
, hepatitis B and hepatitis C
. 70
Cou
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arry Kw
ok
Lam
Kw
ong citecl the case o
f a J 7-year-old boy who hacl the upper part
of his left ear piercecl at a shopping m
all. Fiv
e days
1ater, the w
ouncl began swellir屯,
causing excruciating pain. A
lthough the abscess was eventually c1rainecl o
f
75 pus‘his ear w
as c1istortecl afterwards
[13] In Hong K
ong, body pi巴rcing
isn't regulatecl
by the government, so basically anyone can
set up a busi l1ess. A
lthough most piercing shops try to
maintain a healthy environm
ent, som
e might not take
80 proper precautions ag
倒nst
infections or other health
hazarcls. It's best to c10 som
e investigative work about
a sho
p' s proceclures ancl fincl O
llt whether it provicles a
clean and safe envirol1
ll1ent for its custom
ers
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1 [J) H
aruki Murakam
i didn' t start wri ting fiction
l1ntil he was 29. F
or the late bloomers o
f the world
,
this is a shining beacon of hope. B
y age 30, he had
pl1blished bis first novel, H
ea
r the Win
d S
illg. A
nd 5
now, just into his sixties, h
巴,s prod
l1ced J 2 novels, 6 w
orks of non-fiction
, 47 sbort stories, and has also translated the w
orks of 20 E
nglish-speak.ing authors into Japanese. M
lIrakami is perhaps o
l1e of the m
ost influential and prolific w
riters alive
10 [2) P
rior to J 979
、Murakami
was living a very
different life. With his wi
兒,Y
oko‘he ran a
coffeehouse/jazz bar in Tokyo called the P
eter Cat
Murakam
i ancl his wife had m
巴t
while studying at
Waseda U
niversity. It wasjllst before gl吋
l1ating
tbat 15
they opened theil巴stablishment
[3] Murakam
i was w
atching a baseball game betw
een the Y
ak111t Sw
allows ancl the H
iroshima C
arp when
he was strllck by the idea for his fil討
book
.After
that , he wrote for at least one hO
l1r every night fO!
主o
four month5
, often after closing the bar for the night.
His declication paicl o
f1'. Murakam
i sl1bmitt巴d
He
Cll
the Win
d S
illg to a contest rU
I1 by th巴Japanese
literary m
agazine GlIll三
0,and it w
on him first prize. It w
as this initial Sl1CC巴
ssthat convinced M
ur法
ami
that he cOllld
:25 m
ake it as a writel
[4] During the next few
years , Mu叫Ir叫
,ami
publi心叫且叫b沈巴d
sev巴r芷alotherω
nov巴Is
to mod巴rat巴
sllccess,inclllding
Pillb
all, 1973 and A
Wild
Sheep C
hase. Howevel
司
it was w
hen he published No
nve
iga
ll Wood that
30 Mur前,ami's
name spreacllike w
ilclfire across Japan T
he novel solcl over three m
illion copi的
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35 w
as a relllctant celebrity
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to write m
y books. Bllt all o
f a sllclden 1 became
famolls and everybocly know
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to work on his w
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translated th巴complete
works o
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to
more than 4
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the Franz K
afka
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的Ki
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de
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23 111 lines 6
-8, the w
riter says that dressing up as characters‘becam
e a national phenomenon
' in Japan. Why do
you think cosplay became so popular in Japan?
higher-order thinking question
Cosplay probably becam
e popular ín Japan
becau
se manga and anim
e were a
lready七rendy
,so七here
werea
lo七of
characters for people to
dress up a
s. Also
, stree七fashiotl
is very popular in Japan
. so d
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up in
costu
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ould have caug
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What does 'T
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costu
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odelling their __
co
stum
e_s _ and are happy to let people
tak_e __
photographs of them
25
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do cosplayers feel about people touching their costumes w
ithout permission? W
hy? ínference question
cosp
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eir cos七umeswithou七permis5ion,because m
any of th
e part5
F
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31
(3 marks)
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出at
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the m
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the O1ig
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f something
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lived there
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hat is the writer's ll1ain purpose in w
riting the text? them
atic question
to proll1ote cosplay as a hobby
to explain the basics of cosplay costum
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and developll1ent o
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alloween costum
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3)?
A
Cosplayers com
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alloween
B
Cosplay involves 1l10re cO
ll1plex costUll1es a
l1d requires more dedication.
C
Cosplayers do not like H
alloween costum
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C
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ilar to Hallow
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(5 marks)
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A
Cosplay activities
B
Cosplay costU
ll1es
C
Paragraph 1
C
Th
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E
P征agraph
2
D
Masters o
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P
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Cosplay venues in Japan
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23 1n lines 6
-8, the w
riter says that dressing up as characters‘becam
e a national phenomenon' in Japan. W
hy do you think cosplay b
ecam巴so
popular in Japan? higher-order thinking question
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e popular in Japan
because manga and anim
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七,rendy
,50 there w
ere a
lotofcharac七ers
for people七o
dress up a
s. Also
, street fashio
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costu
mes w
ould have caug
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hey' in line 34 refer to? reference question
Which w
ords in parag即h
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ing? v∞的
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The m
ain idea of paragraph 5 ~
七hat
cosplayers take th_eir_ co
stum
es very seriously and work hard on th
em,
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supports body piercing.
advertises safe piercing shops advises people against getting body piercings
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people who starl theír passion laler in life can still be successful
29-year-old people can be great writers
anyone can be sllccessflll í 1' they try hard
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