Question

【題目】Is beauty something always positive? Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive（主管的） circle, beauty can become a disadvantage.

While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman. Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck.

All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the manly qualities required.

This is true even in politics, “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently, ” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates（候選人）. She asked 125 college students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.

The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.

【1】In traditionally female jobs, attractiveness ________.

A. makes women look more honest and capable

B. strengthens the manly qualities required

C. often enables women to succeed quickly

D. is of no importance to women

【2】 Bowman’s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness _____.

A. turns out to be a disadvantage to men

B. has as little effect on men as on women

C. affects men and women alike

D. is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to women

【3】According to the passage, people’s views on beauty are often _____.

A. practical B. one – sided

C. old fashioned D. supportive

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】B

【解析】

試題分析: 文章主要談?wù)摰氖瞧�亮可能是女性的一個(gè)不利條件。美向來(lái)被看做是值得稱贊的事物。幾乎每個(gè)人都認(rèn)為漂亮的人更開心、更健康。但是在政界，美有可能會(huì)變成一個(gè)不利條件

【1】C 考查推斷題。由文章第三段可知，人們覺得有魅力的女人比不那么有魅力的女人要更有女人特質(zhì)。因此，在傳統(tǒng)上女人所從事的工作中，有魅力的女人具有一定的優(yōu)勢(shì)。但在傳統(tǒng)上男人所從事的工作中，有魅力的女人看起來(lái)缺乏所需的男性特質(zhì)。由此可推出，在傳統(tǒng)上女人所從事的工作中，魅力加強(qiáng)了所需的女人特質(zhì)，故選C項(xiàng)。

【2】D考查推理判斷題。由文章最后一段可知，有魅力的男性徹底擊敗了缺乏魅力的男性。而那些被認(rèn)為最有魅力的女性常常得到最少的選票。由此可推出，在政界中，對(duì)于女性來(lái)說，魅力是一個(gè)障礙，而不是益處，故選D項(xiàng)。

【3】B考查推理判斷題。A務(wù)實(shí)的，實(shí)用的；B支持的；C過時(shí)的；D片面的。根據(jù)第三段“An attractive woman is considered to be more feminine...but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the "manly" qualities required”和第四段“When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently”可知，漂亮的女性被認(rèn)為不能勝任需要男性品質(zhì)的職務(wù)，如果僅憑外貌來(lái)判斷，人們常用不同的方法來(lái)對(duì)待男性和女性，說明人們對(duì)美的看法是片面的，故選B

考點(diǎn) ：日常生活類閱讀。