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If you are anything like me, you left the theater after Sex and the City 2 and thought, there ought to be a law against a looks-

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问题     If you are anything like me, you left the theater after Sex and the City 2 and thought, there ought to be a law against a looks-based culture in which the only way for 40-year-old actresses to be compensated like 40-year-old actors is to have them look and dress like the teenage daughters of 40-year-old actors.
    Meet Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor who proposes a legal system in which Discrimination on the basis of looks is as serious as discrimination based on gender or race. In a provocative new book, The Beauty Bias, Rhode lays out the case for an America 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 widespread as bias based on race, sex, age, ethnicity, religion, and disability. In a research college students tell surveyors they’d rather have a spouse who is a drug user,or a shoplifter than one who is fat. The less attractive you are in America,the more likely you are to receive a longer prison sentence, 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 criticized by the media for their looks, and says it’s no surprise that Sarah Palin paid her makeup artist more than any member of her staff in her run for the vice presidency.
    Of course the problem with making appearance discrimination illegal is that Americans just really, really like hot girls. 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 about competing in beauty processions. They love six-inch heels. They feel beautiful after cosmetic surgery. You can’t succeed in public life if you look old in America. Of the 16 women in the U. S. Senate between ages 46 and 74, not one has gray hair. To put it another way, appearance bias is a massive societal problem with definite economic costs that most of us—perhaps especially women—continue each time we buy a diet pill or sneer at Elena Kagan for not dressing like Miley Cyrus. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t work toward eradicating discrimination based 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 ourselves.
Unattractive people are more likely to______.
选项 A、receive unfair treatment
B、take cosmetic surgery
C、be unconfident and sad
D、put more energy on study
答案A
解析 推理判断题。第二段第三句指出外貌歧视在美国十分普遍；第四句紧接着用具体调查结果证明人们极其重视外貌。第五句是证明人们重视外貌的具体事实，如相貌平庸的人可能被判更长时间的监禁，得到更低的损害补偿，拿更低的薪水，得到更糟的工作业绩评价。所有事实都说明相貌平庸的人更可能受到不公平的待遇。而题干中的unattractive和原文中的less attractive意思基本相同。因此，A)是本题答案。B)“做整容手术”是对原文意思的曲解，原文只说整容手术率快速上升加剧了相貌歧视，并没有说相貌平庸者会做整容手术，故排除；C)“不自信且悲伤”和D)“把更多的精力放在学习上”和原文讨论无关，故排除。
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