首页
财务会计
医药卫生
金融经济
考公考编
外语考试
学历提升
职称考试
建筑工程
IT考试
其他
登录
财务会计
根据以下材料,回答题 Beauty has always been regar
根据以下材料,回答题 Beauty has always been regar
书海库
2019-12-17
31
问题
根据以下材料,回答题Beauty has always been regarded assomething praise worthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happierand healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable occupations.Personal consultants give them better advicefor finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants (被告). But in the executivecircle, beauty can become a liability.While attractiveness is a positive factorfor a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman.Handsome male executives were thought as havingmore integrity than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to account fortheir success.Attractive female executives were consideredto have less integrity than unattractive ones; their success was attributed notto ability but to factors such as luck.All unattractive women executives werethought to have more integrity and to be more capable than the attractivefemale executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractiveovernight successes was attributed more to personal relationships and less toability than that of attractive overnight successes.Why are attractive women not thought to beable An attractive woman is thought to be more feminine and an attractive manmore masculine (有男子气概的) than the less attractive ones. Thus, an attractive woman has anadvantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionallymasculine position appears to lack the "masculine" qualitiesrequired.This is true even in politics. When the only clue is how he or shelooks, people treat men and women differently,′ says Anne Bowman, who recently publisheda study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates. She asked 125undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one ofwomen, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs wereof candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in theorder they would vote for them.The results showed that attractive malesutterly defeated unattractive men, but the women who had been ranked mostattractive invariably received the fewest votes. The underlined word"liability" (in Para.1) most probably means "____________"查看材料
选项
A.disadvantage B.advantageC.misfortune D.trouble
答案
A
解析
词义题。定位到第一段“But in theexecutive circle,beauty can become a liability."联系第二段第一句“While attractiveness is apositive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder.it is harmful to a woman.”可知liability的意思是“劣势”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://ti.zuoweng.com/ti/v1UsKKKQ
相关试题推荐
骨髓增生程度判断是根据下列哪二者之比
根据部位,下列哪种胃溃疡最为多见
男性,45岁,体检发现尿糖阳性,根据下列哪一项检查对诊断糖尿病最有意义
智能IC卡种类较多,根据IC卡芯片功能的差别可以将其分为()
某中性耐火材料制品,热膨胀系数较低,导热性高,耐热震性能好,高温强度高,不受酸碱
2006—2014年我国能源消费总量及构成 根据材料,下列表述正确的是:
根据美国加州大学圣迭戈分校的最新研究结果显示,一个人孤独不在于到底拥有多少亲密的
2006—2014年我国能源消费总量及构成 根据材料,下列表述正确的是:
2006—2014年我国能源消费总量及构成 根据材料,下列表述正确的是:
根据下列资料,回答问题。 能够从上述资料中推出的是:
随机试题
护士对行子宫颈活检患者做宣教,正确的是
张某购买李某总价款为160万元的一套住房,并按合同约定支付了定金48万元。李某不
按学生能力、成绩、爱好分组的教学称为()
某公司拟发行附带认股权证的债券筹集资金,已知目前等风险公司债券的市场利率为6%,
肺结核病人在接受抗结核治疗时,对疗效的考核首先要看 A痰菌阴转 B症状消失
下列选项中,属于构成商业秘密条件的是()。A.新颖性B.显著性C.保密性D.独创性
影响大学生人际关系的因素有哪些?()A.空间距离B.容貌与仪表C.相似性D.互补性
嘌呤代谢异常导致尿酸过多会引起下列何种疾病A.胆结石B.高血压C.冠心病D.高血脂E.痛风症
有一名男性患者,手术切除皮下结节状肿物,有完整包膜,切面为灰白色有纹理,质地硬韧。镜下见呈束状排列的胶原纤维走行交错,细胞核多为梭形,但无异型性表现,此...
平板闸门安装顺序的最后一步是( )。A:按照预埋件调配止水和支承导向部件B:安装闸门拉杆C:在门槽内试验闸门的提升和关闭D:将闸门处于试验水头并投入试运行