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Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, h

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问题     Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriage and have more respectable occupations. Personal consultants give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants (被告). But in the executive circle, beauty can become a liability.
    While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman.
     Handsome male executive were perceived as having more integrity than plainer men; effort and ability we thought to account for their success.
    Attractive female executive were considered to have less integrity than unattractive ones; their success was attributed not to ability but to factors such as luck.
    All unattractive women executive were thought to have more integrity and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight 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 feminine and an attractive man more masculine 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. "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. 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 utterly defeated unattractive men, but the women who had been ranked most attractive invariably received the fewest votes.
The author writes this passage to
选项 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
答案A
解析 主旨大意题。本文围绕美貌对行政管理部门的漂亮女性的负面影响进行论述，因此选项 A是正确的。B、C和D的选项都非常片面，故不入选。
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