单选题   Most of us tend to think that attractive people are always at an advantage in life and enjoy far more opportunities than average-looking or unattractive people, especially when it comes to employment. But a new study suggests this perception is actually not the case for all jobs. Beautiful people are less likely to land menial jobs or positions that involve uninteresting work.
    The study published Tuesday in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology finds being beautiful is a liability when it comes to seeking out less desirable positions, which is proof that attractive people don't get everything they want. The researchers found people interviewing and hiring for these jobs favor unattractive candidates because they perceived attractive candidates would be dissatisfied with the pay and the work.
    The findings are based on a series of experiments that involved more than 750 people. They included university students and hiring managers. The researchers showed the hiring managers profiles that included photos of potential candidates (one attractive and one not so much). The researchers asked the hiring managers a series of questions that were meant to assess their perceived attractiveness. They also asked the participants which candidate they were more likely to hire for the low-paying positions that included warehouse worker, customer service representative and housekeeper versus more appealing jobs such as manager, project director and an IT internship (实习生).
    The researchers found that the hiring managers' decisions were driven by their belief that the nice-looking candidates would be unhappy and unsatisfied with the menial jobs and maybe even less likely to do the work.
    The researchers were surprised by this, since previous research has shown that attractive people always have an edge with employment, such as a study in which researchers sent 1100 fake resumes to employers to fill advertised vacancies. They found 54 percent of attractive women were contacted while 47 percent of attractive men received calls, according to the Independent. On the other hand, only 7 percent of unattractive women and 26 percent of unattractive men were contacted by potential employers.
    The authors of the new study suggest their findings should be considered when it comes to creating policies about job discrimination. This conclusion is likely to be laughable to unattractive people who have landed jobs but didn't win the genetic lottery.
单选题     What does the study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology find?______
 
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由题干中所提到的杂志名Journal of Personality and Social Psychology定位到文章第二段第一句。 细节辨认题。由定位句可知，《个性与社会心理学杂志》上的研究发现，当寻求低吸引力的职位时，美丽是一种负担。也就是说，在寻求某些工作时，吸引力可能会成为妨碍，这与B的表述是一致的，故答案为B。 [参考译文] 我们大多数人倾向于认为有吸引力的人在生活中总是具有优势的，并且比相貌平平或没有吸引力的人拥有多得多的机会，尤其是求职的时候。但是一项新的研究表明，事实上这种看法并非对所有工作来说都一样。长相漂亮的人不太可能谋得不体面的工作或涉及无趣工作的职位。 这项周二发表在《个性与社会心理学杂志》上的研究发现，在寻求低吸引力的职位时，美丽是一种负担，这证明有吸引力的人无法得到他们想要的一切。研究人员发现，人们在招聘和雇用此类工作的员工时，更偏爱那些没有吸引力的候选人，因为他们认为有吸引力的候选人可能会对薪酬和工作不满意。 这一发现基于一系列的实验，涉及750多人，其中包括大学生和招聘经理。研究人员向招聘经理展示了包括潜在候选人(一个有吸引力，一个不大有吸引力)照片在内的简介。他们询问了招聘经理一系列问题，这些问题旨在评估他们对候选人吸引力的看法。他们还询问参与者什么样的候选人更有可能获得包括仓库工人、客户服务代表和管家等低薪职位，与此相对，还有诸如经理、项目主管和IT实习生这样更具吸引力的职位。 研究人员发现，招聘经理的决定来自这样一种想法，即形象好的候选人会对不体面的工作感到不乐意、不满意，甚至不太可能从事这样的工作。 研究人员对此感到惊讶，因为此前的研究表明，有吸引力的人在就业上总是具有优势的，如刊登在《独立报》的一项研究中，研究人员向雇主发送了1100份伪造的简历来填补广告中发布的职位空缺。他们发现有54%的具有吸引力的女性被联系，而47%的有魅力的男性接到电话。另一方面，只有7%的缺乏吸引力的女性和26%的缺乏吸引力的男性被潜在雇主联系。 这项新研究的作者们建议，在制定关于就业歧视的政策时，应该考虑到他们的发现。这个结论对于那些已经得到工作但没有赢得基因彩票的不具有吸引力的人来说可能是可笑的。
单选题     What did the researchers give the hiring managers in a series of experiments?______
 
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由题干中的the researchers、the hiring managers和experiments定位到文章的第三段。 细节辨认题。由定位段第三句可知，研究人员向招聘经理展示了包括潜在候选人照片在内的简介。这与B的表述一致，故答案为B。
单选题     What did the hiring managers think of nice-looking candidates?______
 
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】由题干中的nice-looking candidates定位到文章的第四段。 细节辨认题。由定位段可知，招聘经理认为形象好的候选人会对不体面的工作感到不乐意、不满意。这与D的表述相一致，故答案为D。
单选题     What can you learn from previous research?______
 
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】由题干中的关键词previous research定位到文章的第五段。 细节归纳题。由定位段可知，以往的研究表明，有吸引力的人在就业上总是具有优势的，如刊登在《独立报》的一项研究表明，在发出简历后，有吸引力的男性、女性跟没有吸引力的男性、女性相比，得到了更多的回应。这与A表述一致，故答案为A。
单选题     What does the passage mainly talk about?______
 
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】本题需综合全文信息来解答。 主旨大意题。文章从开头即点明，与大多数人的观念不同，美丽并不总能给人们求职带来优势。相反，在寻求某些职位时，美丽可能会成为一种负担。随后，文章又将得出该结论的研究进行了阐述，进一步解释了得出此结论的原因。由此可见，本文主要讲述了美丽的外表会让人们失去找到某些工作的机会，这与C的表述一致，故答案为C。