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If you are anything like me, you left the theater after Sex and the City 2 and thought, there ought to be a law against a looks-

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问题     If you are anything like me, you left the theater after Sex and the City 2 and thought, there ought to be a law against a looks-based culture in which the only way for 40-year-old actresses to be compensated like 40-year-old actors is to have them look and dress like the teenage daughters of 40-year-old actors.
    Meet Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor who proposes a legal system in which Discrimination on the basis of looks is as serious as discrimination based on gender or race. In a provocative new book, The Beauty Bias, Rhode lays out the case for an America in which appearance discrimination is no longer allowed. Rhode is at her most persuasive when arguing that in America, Discrimination against unattractive women and short men is as widespread as bias based on race, sex, age, ethnicity, religion, and disability. In a research college students tell surveyors they’d rather have a spouse who is a drug user,or a shoplifter than one who is fat. The less attractive you are in America,the more likely you are to receive a longer prison sentence, a lower damage award, a lower salary, and poorer performance reviews. You are less likely to be married and more likely to be poor. And all of this is compounded by a virtually unregulated beauty and diet industry and soaring rates of elective cosmetic surgery. Rhode reminds us how Hillary Clinton and Sonia Sotomayor were criticized by the media for their looks, and says it’s no surprise that Sarah Palin paid her makeup artist more than any member of her staff in her run for the vice presidency.
    Of course the problem with making appearance discrimination illegal is that Americans just really, really like hot girls. It’s not just American men who like things this way. In the most troubling chapter in her book,Rhode explores the feminist movement’s complicated relationship to eternal youth. The truth is that women feel good about competing in beauty processions. They love six-inch heels. They feel beautiful after cosmetic surgery. You can’t succeed in public life if you look old in America. Of the 16 women in the U. S. Senate between ages 46 and 74, not one has gray hair. To put it another way, appearance bias is a massive societal problem with definite economic costs that most of us—perhaps especially women—continue each time we buy a diet pill or sneer at Elena Kagan for not dressing like Miley Cyrus. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t work toward eradicating discrimination based on appearance. But it may mean recognizing that the law won’t stop us from discriminating against the overweight, the aging,and the imperfect,so long as it’s the quality we all hate most in ourselves.
In the author’s opinion,what is the fundamental reason that we have discrimination on appearance?
选项 A、Most people are basically unsatisfied with themselves.
B、People think beautiful girls can bring more benefits.
C、Women Senates in the U. S. establish this model for us.
D、Everyone wants to win in the beauty processions.
答案A
解析 推理判断题。根据第三段倒数第二句可知，人们注重外貌并不意味着我们不需要努力消除外貌歧视。然而外貌歧视只是一种现象，第三段第四、五、六句指出女性对于在选美游行中的竞争感到愉悦，她们喜欢六英寸的高跟鞋，她们在做完整容手术之后感觉良好。而这些现象产生的深层原因在于人们本身就存在诸如超重、年老或是不完美这些特性，而他们通过否定这样的人来否定自身的不足。因此，A)是本题答案。B)“人们认为漂亮女孩能带来更多效益”、C)“美同的女参议员为我们树立榜样”和D)“每个人都希望在选美游行中获胜”都是对原文的错误理解，故排除。
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