What would you think of this lady's physical attractiveness if she exhibited bad personal traits?

 If you exhibit positive traits such as honesty and helpfulness, the chances are that you will be perceived as a good looking person, for a new study has found that the perception of physical attractiveness is influenced by a person's personality.

The study, led by Gary W. Lewandowski, Jr, found that people who exhibit negative traits, such as unfairness and rudeness, appear to be less physically attractive to observers.

In the study, the participants viewed photographs of opposite-sex individuals and rated them for attractiveness before and after being provided with information on personality traits.

After personality information was received, participants also rated the desirability of each individual as a friend and as a dating partner.

Information on personality was found to significantly alter perceived desirability, showing that cognitive processes modify judgments of attractiveness.

"Perceiving a person as having a desirable personality makes the person more suitable in general as a close relationship partner of any kind," said Lewandowski.

The findings show that a positive personality leads to greater desirability as a friend, which leads to greater desirability as a romantic partner and, ultimately, to being viewed as more physically attractive.

The findings remained consistent regardless of how "attractive" the individual was initially perceived to be, or of the participants' current relationship status or commitment level with a partner.

"This research provides a more positive alternative by reminding people that personality goes a long way toward determining your attractiveness; it can even change people's impressions of how good looking you are," said Lewandowski.

1.Which of the following is a negative personal trait? ______

A. Good luck        B. Honesty        C. Rudeness        D. Helpfulness

2.It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

   A. An ugly person has only bad personal traits.

   B. If you want to be physically attractive, you should have good personal traits.

   C. Physically attractive people have good personal traits.

   D. Good-looking people attract others.

3.The author seems to be in favor of the idea that ________.

   A. People should leave a good impression.

   B. Pretending to be honest and fair leads to people’s attractiveness.

   C. A person with a positive personality tends to be a friend of others but never to be a romantic partner.

   D. People should keep positive traits to be attractive.

4.The main idea of the article is _______.

   A. Honesty can make you attractive.

   B. Helpfulness can make you attractive.

   C. Personality affects your attractiveness.

   D. Unfairness can make you less attractive.

                             (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn  [ 2007-12-04 10:15 ])

1.If an Englishman who has worked in China for 3 years comes to English Newspaper Office to ask for the job in April, he will _______.

A. get the job         B. not get the job     C. be a good editor       D. not be useful

2.If three adults and six students went to watch the football match, the tickets would cost them _______ yuan.

A. 165            B. 135               C. 196               D. 255

3.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. The shopping center is at No. 6 Xidan Road.

B. The telephone number of English Newspaper is 3890666.

C. The match was between Beijing Team and Guo’an Team.

D. Xu Genbao is a coach.

随着李阳 “疯狂英语”讲师团的到来和校园 “英语周”活动的开展，我校学生学英语的积极性空前高涨.你最近以访谈的形式对高三年级的学生做了一次调查，请根据下图所示调查结果, 用英语写一篇150词左右的短文, 作简单的原因分析并谈谈个人看法。

注意: 短文的标题及首句已为你写好,不计入总词数。

  Recently, with the English Week Activities being held in our school, more and more students have shown great interest in English reading. 

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 We must work hard and make _______ continuous progress so that we can make _______great contribution to our country in the future.

A. / ; a    B. the ; a    C. a ; a    D. / : /

 ----Thanks for your help, but can you do me one more favor, please?

   ----________ What’s it then?

A. Just a minute.        B. It’s very nice of you.

C. That’s all right.    D. At your service.

 It might rain tomorrow and _______ we’ll have to put off the sports meeting until next Friday.

   A. in which case  B. if possible  C. in case  D. in that case

 You can take away _________ you like most.

   A. whatever      B. whichever     C. no matter what   D. no matter which

 _______ is mentioned above that the number of the students in senior high schools is increasing.

   A. Which         B. As            C. That             D. It

 The cook is ______ we dropped in the other day.

A. whom          B. on whom      C. the one           D. the one on whom

 I’ll appreciate _______ if you do me the favor to send this message to Mr. Allen.

 A. that          B. it          C. this               D. you