考研英语(二)-11
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Reading Comprehension
兴趣测试In a provocative new bookThe Beauty Bias, Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor who propos a legal regime in which discrimination on the basis of looks is as rious as discrimination bad on gender or race, lays out the ca for an American 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 pernicious and widespread as bias bad on race, x, age, ethnicity, religion, and disability. Rhode cites rearch to prove her point: 11 percent of surveyed couples say they would abort a fetus predispod toward obesity. College students tell surveyors they"d rather have a spou who is an embezzler, drug ur, or a shoplifter than one who is obe. The less attractive you are in America, the more
likely you are to receive a longer prison ntence, 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 savaged by the media for their looks, and says it"s no surpri that Sarah Palin paid her makeup artist more than any member of her staff in her run for the vice presidency.
Critics such as Andrew Sullivan claim that if we legally ban appearance discrimination, the next step will be legal protection of "the short, the skinny, the bald, the knobbly kneed, the flat-chested and the stupid." But Rhode points out that there are already laws against appearance discrimination on the books in Michigan and six other locales. This hasn"t resulted in an explosion of frivolous suits, she notes. In each jurisdiction the new laws have generated between zero and nine cas annually.
Of cour the problem with making appearance discrimination illegal is that Americans just really, really like hot girls. And so long as being a hot girl is deemed a bona fide occupational qualification, there will be cocktail waitress fired for gaining three pounds. 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 **peting in beauty pageants. They love six-inch heels. They feel beautiful after cosmetic surgery. You can"t succeed in public life if you look old in America.
里行This doesn"t mean we shouldn"t work toward eradicating discrimination bad 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 ourlves.
1. Rhode tries to argue that appearance discrimination ______.
A. should be dealt with in a parate law
B. should not affect a person"s choice of a spou
C. is very harmful and rampant in social life
D. should be prohibited in work places
秀自己2. The examples of Hilary and Sonia show that ______.
A. how they look affects their public life
B. the public vote for them for how they look
C. they have become victims to the beauty industry
D. politicians cannot afford to offend the media
3. We can infer from Paragraph 4 that laws against appearance discrimination ______.
A. are actually nothing new in Rhode"s proposal
B. are not effective enough in Michigan and other places新年英语祝福语
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C. **e into effect nationally in a very short time
D. are expected by Sullivan to incur many trivial lawsuits
大厅里交换性伴侣4. We can conclude from the last two paragraphs that ______.
A. making appearance discrimination laws in America is almost impossible
B. changing our mindt is as important as making appearance discrimination laws
C. appearance discrimination laws cannot stop us from hating ourlves
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D. Rhode cannot reconcile feminists" ideals with women"s desire for eternal youth
5. The text is most likely to be ______.
A. a book review B. an editorial
C. a scientific report D. a success story
游戏笔记本排行In the US, poll after poll has shown a majority in favour of animal experimentation, even without statements about its value. Why is opinion in Britain so different? I think that there are two reasons.
The first is the success of antiviviction campaigners in lampooning animal rearch as outdated, intentionally cruel, "bad" science, which achieves nothing. All drugs and procedures developed with the help of animal tests are said to be dangerous. The occasional failure of animal testing to identify a dangerous drug is deployed as an argument for abandoning safety tests involving animals altogether—with no mention of the terrible human suffering that this would cau. They say that "alternative" methods already exist for all animal experiments, but the fact is that the law specifically forbids animal u if there is any alternative.
