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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-b

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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 regime 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. That means Hooters can’t fire its servers for being too heavy, as allegedly happened last month to a waitress in Michigan who says she received nothing but excellent reviews but weighed 132 pounds.
   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 based on race, sex, age, ethnicity, religion, and disability. Rhode cites research to prove her point: 11 percent of surveyed couples say they would abort a fetus predisposed toward obesity. College students tell surveyors they’d rather have a spouse who is an embezzler, drug user, or a shoplifter than one who is obese.
   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 surprise that Sarah Palin paid her makeup artist more than any member of her staff in her run for the vice presidency.
   And 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 waitresses fired for gaining three pounds. It’s not just American men who like things this way. The truth is that women feel good about competing in beauty pageants.
   To put it another way, appearance bias is a massive societal problem with tangible economic costs that most of us—perhaps especially women— perpetuate each time we buy a diet pill or sneer at fat women. 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.
   
Which of the followings is NOT included in Prof. Rhode’s arguments?
选项 A、There should be a law against discrimination.
B、If appearance discrimination is illegal in America, no company can fire their employees because of their looks.
C、Not only American men like pretty women, American women themselves also attach great value to beauty.
D、Appearance bias is as harmful and common as racial and religious discrimination.
答案C
解析 细节题。本题考查的是文章中某一具体人物的观点，通过人名“罗德教授”定位到文章第二段及第三段。C项的内容出现在文中第五段首句，但并没有线索表明是罗德教授的观点，所以应该选C项。
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