QCM : Filter or Fact? (17 questions)

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A filter can improve an image’s appearance so that it seems more perfect than the real subject. This does not mean that reality itself has become more perfect; it is the representation that has changed.

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The ASA considered the content misleading because the filter exaggerated the make-up effect beyond the result the product could actually achieve. Accurate advertising should represent the product’s real effect rather than an enhanced version.

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John Everett Millais painted Ophelia in 1851–52 within the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The other attributions associate the painting with different artists, dates, or movements.

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Millais and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood aimed to paint people and nature as they saw them, with close observation and detailed execution. An idealised approach would modify reality more freely instead of carefully recording it.

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The competition ended its swimsuit portion in 2018. This change did not mean that the whole pageant ended or that every form of appearance-based judgment disappeared from the event.

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NPR reported on 5 June 2018 that the Miss America competition would end its swimsuit portion. The report concerned one part of the competition, not the end or relocation of the entire event.

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A pageant is a competition that evaluates participants’ appearance and talent. It is therefore different from a ceremony, a music-only performance, or an organisational meeting.

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The sentence states that judging candidates according to their outward physical appearance will stop. It does not mean that appearance will receive more attention or that a swimsuit portion will be introduced.

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Dove published *Real Beauty Sketches* on 14 April 2013. The experiment itself involved comparing women’s self-descriptions with descriptions given by strangers, but that comparison does not identify the publication date.

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A forensic artist is trained to draw someone’s face after hearing a description. A photographer, by contrast, records an existing image rather than reconstructing a face from words.

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The stranger’s description produced a sketch that was both more flattering and more accurate than the woman’s self-description. The experiment therefore highlights the negative effect of harsh self-perception.

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Being self-critical means concentrating on one’s perceived flaws instead of one’s positive features. Comparing oneself with strangers concerns social comparison, not the definition of self-criticism.

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Bigorexia is associated with an obsessive desire for an ideal muscular body and the pressure to achieve it. The ideal of extreme thinness is described in relation to girls’ body expectations, not bigorexia.

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Social media has increased boys’ and men’s exposure to images of muscular bodies, intensifying pressure around ideal physiques. This does not mean that body-related pressure has disappeared or become limited to professionals.

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“Be supposed to + base verb” expresses an expectation created by social norms or circumstances. “Must” and “have to” are used for more direct obligations, such as rules or requirements.

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The sentence presents gendered social expectations: thinness is associated with girls, while muscularity is associated with boys. It describes social norms rather than identical expectations or direct legal requirements.

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“We’re supposed to look a certain way” refers to an expectation imposed by social norms, whereas “must” indicates a direct obligation. The distinction concerns the strength and source of the expectation, not the time of the action.