TEM4词汇听写2.doc

Unit 2 Beauty Beauty has always been 1____ as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more 2______ 3_______. Personal 4______ give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive 5______. But in the 6______ circle, beauty can become a 7______. While attractiveness is a 8______ 9______ for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman. Handsome male executives were 10_______ as having more 11______than 12______ men; effort and ability were thought to 13______ for their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less integrity than unattractive ones; their success was 14______ not to ability but to factors such as luck. All unattractive women executives were thought to have more integrity and to be more 15______ than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive 16______successes was attributed more to personal relationships and less to ability than was that of attractive overnight successes. Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman is perceived to be more 17______ and an attractive man more 18______ 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” 19____ required. This is true even in politics. “When the only 20_____ is how he or she looks, people 21______ men and woman differently,” says Annie Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political 22______. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in 23____ 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 showe