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根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

___小题1:___ But science may have just proved them right because beautiful women are more likely to have daughters than their plainer counterparts, according to a study.

As parents tend to pass on genes that determine looks, this could result in handsome men becoming rather thin on the ground. ___小题2:___ For example, Yasmin Le Bon is signed to the same modelling agency as her daughter Amber, and Jerry Hall's daughters Elizabeth and Georgia Jagger have both taken to the catwalk.

Dr Satoshi Kanazawa, of the London School of Economics, analysed data from a survey of 17,000 babies born in Britain in March 1958 and tracked them throughout their lives. ___小题3:___ When they reached 45, they were asked about the gender of any children they had.

Those rated as attractive were equally likely to have a son or daughter as their first child  but the unattractive sorts were more likely to have a son. ___小题4:___

Dr Kanazawa believes that parents tend to produce children who benefit from their own features. ___小题5:___ So it pays for attractive women to have daughters. But couples blessed with strength and aggression rather than looks are better off having boys, as these characteristics are of more use to males.

A.Women are becoming more beautiful over the generations because attractive women have more children than plain ones.

B.Single girls have always complained that good-looking men are difficult to find.

C.Beauty is of more benefit to a woman than a man.

D.At the age of seven, their attractiveness was rated by their teachers.E.Put another way, the beautiful women were more likely to have daughters.

F.And it may also explain why many models have daughters who follow in their fascinating footsteps.

G.Famously good-looking parents like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are more likely to have girls than uglier couples.

答案

小题1:B

小题2:F

小题3:D

小题4:E

小题5:C

题目分析:

小题1:B 根据下一句But science may have just proved them right because beautiful women are more likely to have daughters than their plainer counterparts, according to a study.说明科学证明漂亮的女人生出漂亮的女儿较多。那么也就是说漂亮的男性较少了。这正和B项相符。

小题2:F 根据前句As parents tend to pass on genes that determine looks, this could result in handsome men becoming rather thin on the ground说明父母会把决定容貌的基因传给子女,那么F项的说法正确,模特的女儿通常都很漂亮,可能追随父母的脚步,继续做模特。故F项符合上下文。

小题3:D 根据下一句When they reached 45, they were asked about the gender of any children they had.说明本句是在小的时候由老师,故D项符合上下文。

小题4:E 根据前一句the unattractive sorts were more likely to have a son.说明下一句应该是与这句意思相似的,故E项正确。

小题5:C 根据下一句So it pays for attractive women to have daughters说明对女人来说容貌更重要,故C项符合上下文的串联

点评:此类文章重在把握上下文之间的逻辑关系,通过前后的意思连贯性及细致性用心的答题,定能完成的很好。

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It was the best of times or, depending on your political and philosophical outlook, one of the foulest and most depraved. Rebellion seemed to be leaping from city to city, continent to continent, by some fiery process of contagion. Radical students filled the streets of Mexico city, Berlin, Tokyo, Prague. In the U. S. , Chicago swirled into near anarchy as cops battled antiwar demonstrators gathered at the Democratic Convention. And everywhere from Amsterdam to Haight-Ashbury, a generation was getting high, acting up.

So, clearly, it was the year from hell--a collective "dive into extensive social and personal dysfunction," as the Wall Street Journal editorialized recently. Or, depending again on your outlook, a global breakthrough for the human spirit. On this, the 25th anniversary of 1968, probably the only thing we can all agree on is that ’68 marks the beginning of the "culture wars," which have divided America ever since.

Both the sides of the "culture wars" of the ’80s and ’90s took form in the critical year of’68. The key issues are different now--abortion and gay rights, for example, as opposed to Vietnam and racism--but the underlying themes still echo the clashes of ’68: Diversity vs. conformity, tradition vs. iconoclasm, self-expression vs. deference to norms. "Question authority," in other words, vs. "Father knows best."

The 25th anniversary of ’68 is a good time to reflect, calmly and philosophically, on these deep, underlying choices. On one hand we know that anti-authoritarianism for its own sake easily degenerates into a rude and unfocused defiance: Revolution, as Abbie Hoffman put it, "for the hell of it." Certainly ’68 had its wretched excesses as well as its moments of glory: the personal tragedy of lives undone by drugs and sex, the heavy cost of riots and destruction. One might easily conclude that the ancient rules and hierarchies are there for a reason--they’re worked, more or less, for untold millenniums, so there’s no point in changing them now.

But it’s also true that what "worked" for thousands of years may not be the best way of doing things. Democracy, after all, was onee a far-out, subversive notion, condemned by kings and priests. In our own country, it took all kinds of hell-raising, including a war, to get across the simple notion that no person is morally entitled to own another. One generation’s hallowed tradition--slavery, or the divine right of kings--may be another generation’s object lesson in human folly.

’68 was one more awkward, stumbling, half-step forward in what Dutschke called the "long march" toward human freedom. Actually, it helped inspire the worldwide feminist movement.

The writer’s attitude towards the issue is()

A. impartial

B. subjective

C. biased

D. puzzling