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Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. 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 liability.

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. Interestingly, though, the rise of the attractive overnight succes­ses was connected more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of the unattractive over­night successes.

Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman considered to be more feminine 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 (候选人). 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 women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.

17. The underlined word "liability" most probably means ______.

A. disadvantage                        B. advantage                        C. misfortune                        D. trouble

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

A. turns out to be a disadvantage to men

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

C. has as little effect on men as on women

D. affects men and women alike

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

A. practical                        B. supportive                      C. old-fashioned                     D. one-sided

20. The author writes this passage to______.

A. give advice to job-seekers who are attractive

B. discuss the disadvantages of being attractive

C. demand equal rights for women

D. state the importance of appearance

答案与简析：

A本文报道了日本的Toyota丰田公司召回他们所生产的一些问题小汽车的情况。

1. C 细节题。第一段报道了在中国丰田公司所要做的召回Lexus sedans的情况，第二段又谈到了这是全球召回汽车的一部分。

2. D 推断题。由第二段可知。

3. B 推断题。在第二段谈到召回汽车已经是第三次了，而在最后一段又谈到日本的小汽车在中国市场上销量的增长，由此推断“汽车的召回将在中国不断发生”。

4. A 主旨题。由第一段的第一句可知。

B本文表达了作者对A-level examination(英国的高级毕业标准考试)的看法。

5. D 推论题。第一段讲到600，000个学生中只有22000个通过了三个高级毕业标准考试，由此推断A-level examination是很难的。

7. D 词义题。由第二段可推知。(from www.nmet168.com)

7. C 细节题。由第三段的意思可以得出正确答案。

8. A 主旨题。文章主要介绍了A-level examination的一些情况，然后提出了如何才能够使这种考试变得更可靠、更有效，这是文章的中心所在。

C文章论述了生活中suddenly everything seems to get out of control现象。

9. A 主旨题。根据第一段第三句It seems as if a single unimportant event may cause a number of things to happen可知，麻烦的事情总是同时发生。

10. B 细节题。将第二段所说的一连串的事件进行比较，可知选B。

11. D 推断题。根据文章Let us suppose…可知，选项A、B、C都只是一种假设，可推知选D。

12. D 词义题。由下文Let us suppose…可知，它应该指前面的两件事。

D本文报道了Brooksville的小黑熊，在首次离家独立生活的旅途中进入人的居住区而被人发现的经过。

13.A 主旨题。由全文的描述及文章的最后一句可知，人们对黑熊的出没感到担心。

14.C 细节题。由第六段中的planning to stick the bear by hand 及第七段中的The guy saw the size of the bear and figured that wasn’t a great idea可知。

15. B 细节题。由第五段第一句及倒数第二段所描述的黑熊所吃的东西只能在春天出现可知。

16.C 句意题。由…once the youngsters are 2 years old …They are trying to find a land of their own可知。

(E)文章主要讨论了人们对漂亮的理解。作者对漂亮的男人和女人进行了观察，发现“吸引人的男人”更容易成功，而漂亮的女人却并非如此。

17. A 词义题。由上下文可以推知liability意为“劣势”。

18. B 推断题。开始作者就提到了“女人漂亮反而成了劣势”，且在最后一段的实验更加证明了这一个观点。

19. A 推断题。practical意思为“实际的”，第四段中最后两句说的就是“传统男人职位中漂亮女人所表现出的对于男人品质的缺乏”。

20. D 推断题。纵观全文可知本文是在陈述外表的重要性，而不是在讨论漂亮的优劣。

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