Question

【題目】Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and have more respectable jobs. But in the executive(主管的) circle, 【1】________ can become a disadvantage.

While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is 【2】________(harm) to a woman. Handsome male executives are considered to have more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability usually lead 【3】________ their success. Attractive female executives are considered to have less honesty than unattractive 【4】________ ; people do not connect their success with ability 【5】________ with factors such as luck. All unattractive women executives are thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. However, interestingly, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes 【6】________ (connect) more to personal relationships and less to ability.

Attractive women are not thought to be able. This is true even in politics. Anne Bowman, a writer, 【7】________ recently made a study, asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in the order of attractiveness. And then 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 【8】________them. The results showed that attractive males 【9】________(complete) defeated unattractive men, but the women 【10】________ (rank) most attractive by the students unchangeably received the fewest votes.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】it

【2】harmful

【3】to

【4】ones

【5】but

【6】is connected

【7】who

【8】for

【9】completely

【10】ranked

【解析】

【1】考查代詞。it代指前文的beauty。

【2】考查形容詞。形容詞作表語，故用harm的形容詞形式。

【3】考查動詞短語。lead to導致，通向。

【4】考查代詞。ones代指前文的executives同樣的人。

【5】考查連詞。空前后是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，故用but。

【6】考查被動語態(tài)。句子的主語是connect的動作承受者，故用被動語態(tài)。

【7】考查定語從句。先行詞為writer，非限制性定語從句中缺少主語，故用who。

【8】考查動詞短語。vote for為……投票。

【9】考查副詞�？蘸蟮膁efeated為動詞，應(yīng)用副詞修飾。

【10】考查過去分詞。women是rank的動作承受者，故用過去分詞。