47．A．confusing B．remembering C．wondering D．worrying Section C
When
I was 19, I had got a job in my local bookstore. Living in the large city, I
usually saw many strange customers, most of _48 __ were teenagers. They
didn’t come often; I forgot all _49__ two. One night a 15-year-old girl
came in _50__ for a book with a boy. They seemed to be the usual type to
get _51__they longed for. But _52__ they came to the counter, the
girl found she was
a dollar or two short to buy a book. and she
pulled out all her money to prove it.
She
looked so disappointed. Just then I remembered my discount card and it was _53__active,so
I told the girl _54__ to worry. I put in my code, being happpy that I
could help them with this card.
_55__ the book in her
hand she gave me a thankful smile, and then she and the boy got out of the
store happily, leaving me feeling content,too. In fact sometimes a little thing
can also make one’s world beautiful.
PART THREE: READING COMPREHENSION(30分)
Directions：Read the following three passages. Each passage
is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them
there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D．Choose the one that
fits best according to the information given in the passage.
Beauty
has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks
attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have
more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding
jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive (主管的)circle, beauty can
become a liability.
While
attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive
leader, it is harmful to a woman. Handsome male executives were considered as
having more honesty than plainer men: effort and ability were thought to lead
to their success.
Attractive
female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones;
their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck..
All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be
more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the
rise of the unattractive overnight successes was connected more to personal
relationships and less to ability than that of the attractive overnight
successes.
Why
are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman is considered
to be more feminine and an attractive man more manly than the less attractive
ones. Thus, an attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs,
but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the
“manly” qualities required.
This
is true even in politics. “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people
treat men and women differently,” says Anne Brown, who recently published a
study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates. She asked 125
undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of
women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were
of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the
order they would vote for them.
The
results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but
women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.