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根据下面资料，回答题 Is Beauty a Good Thing?
Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy (值得称赞的 ). Almost everyonethinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectablejobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractivedefendants. 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 andability were thought to lead to their success.
Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones;theirsuccess 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 capablethan 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 over-
night successes.
Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman considered to be morefeminine (有女性气质的)has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in atraditionally 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 andwomen 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 ofphotographs, 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 orderthey would vote for them.
The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the womenwho had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.
The underlined word "liability" most probably means__________. A．disadvantage
A．disadvantage
B．advantage
B．advantage
C．misfortune
C．misfortune
D．trouble
D．trouble
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