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 ladder, it is harm­ful to a woman. Handsome male executives were considered 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 attractive overnight succes­ses was connected more with personal relationships and less to ability than that of the unattractive over­night successes. Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman considered to be more womanish has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally man­ly position appears to lack the “manly” qualities. This is true even in politics, “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently,” says Anne Bowman, 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 the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.

73. The underlined word "liability" most probably means ______.

   A. disadvantage     B. advantage   C. misfortune         D. trouble

74. Bowman’s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness ______.

  A. turns out to be a disadvantage to both men and women

  B. is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to women

  C. has as little effect on men as on women

  D. slightly affects both men and women

75. It can be inferred from the passage that people’s views on beauty are often ______.

  A. practical              B. supportive          C. old-fashioned        D. one-sided

第二卷

第四部分：书面表达（共两节，满分35分）

第一节  短文填词 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)?

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1) 汉语提示, 2) 首字母提示, 3) 语境提示,在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词, 并将该词完整地写在右边标号为76－85相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。

I went by air a great deal _______ I was still a young boy as                  76. __________ 

both my father and mother l________ in South America and I flew            77. __________

there from Britain for my _________ (假日). An air hostess took             78. __________

good c______ of me and I never had an unpleasant experience. I am          79. __________

used to __________（旅行）by air and only on one occasion have            80. __________

ever felt f_________. After taking off, we were flying low over city              81. __________

and slowly gaining ________ (高度), when the plane suddenly turned        82. __________

round and flew back to the __________ ( 机场). While we were                 83. __________

waiting to land, an air hostess told us to keep c_______ and get             84. __________

________ the plane quietly as soon as it had touched down.                              85. __________

第二节  写作（满分25分）

最近，你作为研究性学习课题组的成员就对高中英语新教材的看法在同学中间开展了一次调查，请根据如下调查结果，写一份简单的调查报告。

【注意】1. 句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯;

2. 报告的开头已给出，不计入总词数;

         3. 词数100个左右。

I recently surveyed my classmates about their views on the new English textbook.

___ impressed me most about the woman was that she looked after the old man for twenty years without any complaint.

They demanded that the law on gun ownership _______, otherwise more murders will arise.

-- Do you think it will do us good or harm?

--- _____. Let’s beg for God’s help.

“ We can’t go out in such bad weather,” said Susan, ___ out of the window.

.I was so busy that I couldn’t ____ a holiday this summer.

--- Jack Chou will give a concert at the City Stadium on Sunday evening.

---- Where did you ____ that?

To play the latest game, I’m planning to change my old computer for ___ that runs faster.