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华南理工大学
2015 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷
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科目名称：英语综合水平测试
适用专业：英语语言文学，外国语言学及应用语言学
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Part I. Reading Comprehension (60 marks, 2 marks each)
Directions: Read the following passages and make ONE choice that best complete or
answer each of the statements or questions after the passages.
Passage 1
A few common misconceptions. Beauty is only skin-deep. One’s physical assets and
liabilities don’t count all that much in a managerial career. A woman should always try to
look her best.
Over the last 30 years, social scientists have conducted more than 1,000 studies of
how we react to beautiful and not-so-beautiful people. The virtually unanimous conclusion:
Looks do matter, more than most of us realize. The data suggest, for example, that
physically attractive individuals are more likely to be treated well by their parents, sought
out as friends, and pursued romantically. With the possible exception of women seeking
managerial jobs, they are also more likely to be hired, paid well, and promoted.
Un-American, you say, unfair and extremely unbelievable? Once again, the scientists
have caught us mouthing pieties while acting just the contrary. Their typical experiment
works something like this. They give each member of a group – college students, perhaps,
or teachers or corporate personnel managers – a piece of paper relating an individual's
accomplishments. Attached to the paper is a photograph. While the papers all say exactly
the same thing the pictures are different. Some show a strikingly attractive person, some an
average-looking character, and some an unusually unattractive human being. Group
members are asked to rate the individual on certain attributes, anything from personal
warmth to the likelihood that he or she will be promoted.
Almost invariably, the better looking the person in the picture, the higher the person is
rated. In the phrase, borrowed from Salppho, that the social scientists use to sum up the
common perception, what is beautiful is good.
In business, however, good looks cut both ways for women, and deeper than for men.
A Utah State University professor, who is an authority on the subject, explains: In terms of
their careers, the impact of physical attractiveness on males is only modest. But its
potential impact on females can be tremendous, making its easier, for example, for the
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