单选题 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.

单选题 Which of the following is the best description of the author's emotions after watching Sex and the City 2?
[A] Envy and longing.
[B] Remorse and guilt.
[C] Jealousy and hatred.
[D] Displeasure and anger.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 推理题。第一段的内容是“如果你和我有些相似，那么在看完《欲望都市2》走出电影院后就会想，我们应该有一部法律反对以貌取人的文化习俗，因为在以貌取人的文化中，40岁的女演员如果想拿和40岁的男演员一样的酬劳，唯一方法就是把自己装扮成40岁男演员十几岁的女儿一样。”显然，作者是对影片中女演员要打扮得年轻漂亮而感到不满，并且达到了认为应该立法禁止以貌取人的程度，因此D是正确选项。
单选题 The word " That " in Para. 2 refers to______.
[A] a law against discrimination based on appearance
[B] the situation in America when appearance discrimination is illegal
[C] discrimination based on gender or race is eliminated
[D] a law against companies' firing employees based on appearance
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。第二段第二句和第三句指出“在她引起争论的新书《美丽偏见》中，罗德描绘了一个不再允许相貌歧视的美国将是什么样子。这就意味着Hooters公司不能因为服务员超重就开除他们…”本题考查的That就是第三句开头的“这”，显然这承接的是上句的后半部分“一个不再允许相貌歧视的美国”，它与选项B“视相貌歧视为非法行为之后美国的情形”是同义表述，故答案为B。
单选题 Which of the followings is NOT included in Prof. Rhode's arguments?
[A] There should be a law against discrimination based on appearance as against gender or racial 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.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。解题的关键在于找出哪些选项是文中明确说明属于罗德教授的观点。第二段第一句“去见见黛博拉·罗德吧。她是斯坦福大学的法学教授，她提议建立一项法律制度，将相貌歧视视作与性别和种族歧视一样严重的问题”，对应选项A。第二段第二句和第三句“在她引起争论的新书《美丽偏见》中，罗德描绘了一个不再允许相貌歧视的美国将是什么样子。这就意味着Hooters公司不能因为服务员超重就开除他们…”，对应选项B。第三段第一句“罗德最有说服力的观点是：在美国，对相貌不出众的女性和身材矮小的男性的歧视和种族歧视、性别歧视、年龄歧视、民族歧视、宗教歧视以及对残疾人的歧视一样，都具有危害性且广泛存在”，对应选项D。只有选项C的内容(见第五段首句)在文中出现时并没有线索表明是罗德教授的观点，所以应该选C。
单选题 It is very hard to establish a law against appearance discrimination because______.
[A] American people regard beauty as a very valuable and desirable quality
[B] cocktail waitresses want to be competitive and earn more money
[C] American women like participating in beauty pageants
[D] such a law will harm the American economy
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。根据题干中的It is very hard to establish a law against appearance discrimination定位到原文第五段第一句And the problem with making appearance discrimination illegal is that Americans just really, really like hot girls. (而无法将相貌歧视视为不合法的主要问题在于美国人确实很喜欢辣妹。)再结合下文直至文章结尾对相貌歧视深层原因的分析，可以得出正确答案是A。
单选题 What conclusion can we draw from the passage?
[A] American people, both men and women, need to be good-looking for their careers' sake.
[B] Film directors should start using ordinary-looking middle-aged actresses to help change the beauty bias.
[C] American people need to change their attitudes toward the appearance of themselves to change the beauty bias.
[D] If people really hate themselves for being fat or ugly, they will be against a law stopping appearance discrimination.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 推理题。主要参考文章最后一段的最后一句话，相貌歧视问题的根源在于：只要超重、年老和不完美依然是我们最痛恨的自己身上的缺陷，法律就无法阻止我们对这些缺陷的歧视。也就是说，只有我们自己先改变对超重、年老和不完美的看法，才有可能阻止这样的歧视。与这一表述对应的是选项C。