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Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable occupations. Personal consultants give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive 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 perceived as having more integrity than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to account for their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less integrity than unattrative ones; their success was attributed not to ability but to factors such as luck.
All unattractive women executives were thought to have more integrity and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise o
A. discuss the negative aspects of being attractive
B. give advice to job-seekers who are attractive
C. demand equal rights for women"
D. emphasize the importance of appearance
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The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their (8) . A good book often (9) as a match to (10) the dormant-powder within us. There is explosive material (11) in most of us if we can only reach it. A good book or a good friend often excites (12) in great writers, even (13) entirely different subjects. We often find in books (14) we thought and felt, could we not have expressed ourselves. Indeed, we get (15) with ourselves in books. We (16) one feature in Emerson, another lineament in Shakespeare, an expression in Homer, a glimpse of ourselves in Dante, and so on (17) we spell out our whole (18) . True, we get many pleasing (19) of ourselves from fiends, many mirrored deformities from our enemies, and a characteristic here and there from the world; but in calm and (20) way we find the most of ourselves, ou
A. individual
B. humanity
C. singleness
D. individuality
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