2015年华南理工大学626英语综合水平测试考研试题研究生入学考试试题考研真题
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华南理工大学
2015年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷
（试卷上做答无效，请在答题纸上做答，试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回）科目名称：英语综合水平测试
适用专业：英语语言文学，外国语言学及应用语言学共13页
Part I. Reading Comprehension (60marks, 2marks each)
Directions:Read the following passages and make ONE choice that best complete answer each of the statements or questions after the passages.
Passage 1
A few common misconceptions. Beauty is only skin-deep. One’sphysical assets liabilities don’tcount all that much in a managerial career. A woman should always try look her best.
Over the last 30years, social scientists have conducted more than 1,000studies how we react to beautiful and not-so-beautiful people. The virtually unanimous Looks do matter, more than most of us realize. The data suggest, for example, physically attractive individuals are more likely to be treated well by their parents, out as friends, and pursued romantically. With the possible exception of women managerial jobs, they are also more likely to be hired, paid well, and promoted.
Un-American, you say, unfair and extremely unbelievable? Once again, the have caught us mouthing pieties while acting just the contrary. Their typical works something like this. They give each member of a group –college students, or teachers or corporate personnel managers –a piece of paper relating an accomplishments. Attached to the paper is a photograph. While the papers all say the same thing the pictures are different. Some show a strikingly attractive person, some average-looking character, and some an unusually unattractive human being. members are asked to rate the individual on certain attributes, anything from warmth to the likelihood that he or she will be promoted.
Almost invariably, the better looking the person in the picture, the higher the person rated. In the phrase, borrowed from Salppho, that the social scientists use to sum up common perception, what is beautiful is good.
In business, however, and deeper than for A Utah State University professor, who is an authority on the subject, explains:In terms their careers, the impact of physical attractiveness on males is only modest. But potential impact on females can be tremendous, making its easier, for example, for 第1页