Question

Beauty has always been regarded as something admirable .Almost everyone thinks that attractive people are happier and healthier; they have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal consultants（顧問）give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive persons. But in the executive circle, beauty can become a liability.

While attractiveness is a positive thing for a man’s rise, it is harmful to a woman’s .Handsome male executives were considered as having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to be the reasons for their success .Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was attributed not to ability but to 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 is thought to be more feminine（女性的）and an attractive man more masculine（男性的）than the less attractive ones. Thus , an attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally masculine position appears to lack the “masculine”qualities required.

This is true even in politics. Anne Bowman recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates（候選人）.She asked 125 undergraduate 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 woman who had been ranked most attractive always received the fewest votes.

In traditionally female jobs, attractiveness __________________ .

A. strengthens the feminine qualities required

B. makes women look more honest and capable

C. is of great importance to women

D. often enables women to succeed quickly

Bowman’s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness _____________________.

A. turns out to be an obstacle to men

B. affects men and women alike

C. has as little effect on men as on women

D. is more of an obstacle than a benefit to women

It can be inferred from the passage that people’s views on beauty are often ____________ .

A. practical    B. old-fashioned    C. prejudiced（偏見的）  D. serious

The author writes this passage to_______________________ .

A. discuss the negative aspects of being attractive

B. give advice to job-seekers who are attractive

C. demand equal rights for women

D. emphasize the importance of appearance

Answer 1

【小題1】A

【小題2】D

【小題3】C

【小題4】A

解析:

【小題1】  推斷題。由文章第三段可知，人們覺得有魅力的女性比不那么有魅力的女人要更有女性特質。因此，在傳統(tǒng)上由女性所從事的工作中，有魅力的女性具有一定的優(yōu)勢。但在傳統(tǒng)上由男性所從事的工作中，有魅力的女性看起來缺乏所需要的男性特質。由此可推出，在傳統(tǒng)上由女性所從事的工作中，魅力加強了所需的女性特質。A項符合題意。

【小題2】 推斷題。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，對于女性來說，魅力是一個障礙，而不是益處。

【小題3】 推斷題。由文章第一段可知，幾乎每個人都認為有魅力的人會更幸福、更健康。他們的姻更美滿，并且擁有更令人尊敬的職業(yè)。在找工作方面，私人顧問會給他們更好的建議。甚至法官對于有魅力的被告都會手下留情。由此可推出，人們對美的看法往往是帶有偏見的，是缺乏事實依據的。

【小題4】 主旨題。本文雖然也提到了魅力有許多積極方面，但那并不是文章的主要方面。文章主要講的是魅力給行政部門和政界中的女性所造成的不利影響。由此可見，作者寫這篇文章的目的是要討論有魅力的消極方面。