Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attracti

Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive(漂亮的) people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants (被告). But in the executive (行政的；管理的) circle, beauty can bee
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 as having more honesty than plain(平常的，不漂亮的) men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success 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 capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was connected more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of the attractive overnight successes.
Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman is considered to be more feminine and an attractive man more manly than the less attractive ones. Thus, an attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally 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 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, 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 pletely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.
【小题1】The word liability most probably means     .        A．disadvantageB．advantageC．misfortuneD．trouble【小题2】In traditionally female jobs, attractiveness     .       A．makes women look more honest and capableB．strengthens the qualifies requiredC．is of no importance to womenD．often enables women to succeed quickly【小题3】Bowman's experiment shows that when it es to politics, attractiveness     .      A．turns out to be a disadvantage to menB．is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to womenC．affects men and women alikeD．has as little effect on men as on women【小题4】It can be inferred from the passage that people's views on beauty are often     .      A．practicalB．supportiveC．old-fashionedD．one-sided【小题5】 The author writes this passage to     . A．give advice to job-seekers who are attractiveB．discuss the disadvantages of women being attractiveC．demand equal rights for womenD．state the importance of appearanceA