Fast Fashion: The High Cost of Cheap Clothing

Based on the examples discussed in Fast Fashion: The High Cost of Cheap Clothing, which choice best demonstrates how technology helps to minimize clothing waste?

• It increases the durability of clothing materials, making garments last longer.

• It improves the design of clothing to make styles more appealing to consumers.

• It creates new trends that encourage people to buy clothes more frequently.

• It increases awareness and informs the public about ways to reduce fashion waste.

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The passage describes the environmental impact of fast fashion as:

• A significant contributor to pollution and waste.

• A minor issue with little impact.

• Beneficial for the economy and environment.

• Unrelated to environmental concerns.

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What solutions are proposed in the passage to combat the issues of fast fashion?

• Implementing sustainable practices

• Increasing production speed

• Lowering prices

• Expanding market reach

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How does the passage suggest consumers can make a difference in addressing fast fashion?

• By purchasing more fast fashion items

• By supporting sustainable brands

• By ignoring fashion trends

• By buying from large retail chains

Throughout the passage, the author uses statistics to

• praise the fashion industry’s efforts to improve sustainability.

• illustrate the scale of waste and environmental harm caused by fast fashion.

• challenge the idea that fast fashion is a problem for consumers.

• demonstrate that consumers prefer fast fashion over sustainable alternatives.

Which detail from the passage best supports the answer to the previous question?

• It takes around 700 gallons of water to make just one cotton T-shirt—enough for a person to drink for almost three years.

• Walk into any clothing store, and you’ll see racks of trendy, low-priced clothing.

• Consumers can also make a difference by buying second-hand clothing, supporting brands with fair labor policies, and taking better care of their clothes.

• Platforms like ThredUp and Poshmark allow people to buy and sell second-hand clothes, keeping garments in circulation longer.

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Read the excerpt from Fast Fashion: The High Cost of Cheap Clothing. “Garment workers, many of them women and children, often work long hours in unsafe conditions.” Which two words from the excerpt have the strongest negative connotation?

• Workers

• Women

• Unsafe

• Conditions

• garment

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What central idea emerges from the description of fast fashion’s impact?

• The affordability of fashion comes at a hidden environmental and human cost.

• The global economy benefits from fast fashion production.

• The fashion industry is successfully reducing waste.

• Consumers should prioritize quantity over quality when shopping for clothes.

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How does the author connect the ideas of fast fashion’s negative effects to solutions like second-hand clothing apps?

• By listing statistics about clothing waste.

• By comparing the cost of new and used clothing.

• By detailing specific examples of programs that reduce waste.

• By describing how fashion trends influence consumer behavior.

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How do the descriptions of ThredUp and clothing recycling programs in the text develop the author’s claim about reducing fashion waste?

• By comparing the success of different recycling programs.

• By listing the types of clothing most frequently discarded.

• By focusing only on the economic benefits of second-hand shopping.

• By showing the variety of solutions available to address fast fashion waste.