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1、我带领班子成员及全体职工，积极参加县委、政府和农牧局组织的政治理论学习，同时认真学习业务知识，全面提高了自身素质，增强职工工作积极性，杜绝了纪律松散Unit 18 Beauty(35分钟).阅读理解A(2017天津卷)Fifteen years ago,I took a summer vacation in Lecce in southern Italy.After climbing up a hill for a panoramic(全景的) view of the blue sea,white buildings and green olive trees,I paused to catc
2、h my breath and then positioned myself to take the best photo of this panorama.Unfortunately,just as I took out my camera,a woman approached from behind,and planted herself right in front of my view.Like me,this woman was here to stop,sigh and appreciate the view.Patient as I was,after about 15 minu
3、tes,my camera scanning the sun and reviewing the shot I would eventually take,I grew frustrated.Was it too much to ask her to move so I could take just one picture of the landscape?Sure,I could have asked her,but something prevented me from doing so.She seemed so content in her observation.I didnt w
4、ant to mess with that.Another 15 minutes passed and I grew bored.The woman was still there.I decided to take the photo anyway.And now when I look at it,I think her presence in the photo is what makes the image interesting.The landscape,beautiful on its own,somehow comes to life and breathes because
5、this woman is engaging with it.This photo,with the unique beauty that unfolded before me and that woman who “ruined” it,now hangs on a wall in my bedroom.What would she think if she knew that her figure is captured(捕捉) and frozen on some strangers bedroom wall?A bedroom,after all,is a very private s
6、pace,in which some woman I dont even know has been immortalized(使永存).In some ways,she lives in my house.Perhaps we all live in each others spaces.Perhaps this is what photos are for:to remind us that we all appreciate beauty,that we all share a common desire for pleasure,for connection,for something
7、 that is greater than us.That photo is a reminder,a captured moment,an unspoken conversation between two women,separated only by a thin square of glass.1.What happened when the author was about to take a photo?A.Her camera stopped working.B.A woman blocked her view.C.Someone asked her to leave.D.A f
8、riend approached from behind.2.According to the author,the woman was probably .A.enjoying herselfB.losing her patienceC.waiting for the sunsetD.thinking about her past3.In the authors opinion,what makes the photo so alive?A.The rich color of the landscape.B.The perfect positioning of the camera.C.Th
9、e womans existence in the photo.D.The soft sunlight that summer day.4.The photo on the bedroom wall enables the author to better understand .A.the need to be close to natureB.the importance of private spaceC.the joy of the vacation in ItalyD.the shared passion for beauty5.The passage can be seen as
10、the authors reflections upon .A.a particular life experienceB.the pleasure of travelingC.the art of photographyD.a lost friendship导学号07020059BCan you be too beautiful?It is hardly a problem that most of us have to botheras much as we might like to dream that it were the case.Yet the blessings and cu
11、rses of beauty have been a long-standing interest in psychology.Do those blessed with shiny faces and an attractive body live in a cloud of appreciationor does it sometimes pay to be ordinary?Combing through decades of findings,social psychologists Lisa Slattery Walker and Tonya Frevert at the Unive
12、rsity of North Carolina at Charlotte have reviewed all the evidence to date and their conclusions are not what you might expect.At the most basic level,beauty might be thought to carry a kind of halo(光环)around it;we see that someone has one good quality,and by association,our deep mind may assume th
13、at they have other good ones too.Even in the courts,a pleasing appearance can work its magic.Attractive criminals are likely to get less strict sentences,or to escape punishment entirely;attractive plaintiffs(原告),meanwhile,are more likely to win their case and get bigger financial settlements.“Its a
14、n effect seen everywhere,” says Walker.But if beauty pays in most circumstances,there are still situations where it can have opposite results.While attractive men may be considered better leaders,for instance,hidden sexist prejudices(偏见)can work against attractive women,making them less likely to be
15、 hired for high-level jobs that require power.And as you might expect,good-looking people of both sexes run into envyone study found that if you are interviewed by someone of the same sex,they may be less likely to employ you if they judge that you are more attractive than they are.More worryingly,b
16、eing beautiful or handsome could harm your medical care.We tend to link good looks to health,meaning that illnesses are often taken less seriously when they affect the good-looking.When treating people for pain,for instance,doctors tend to take less care over the more attractive people.And the bubble of beauty can be a somewhat lonely place.One study in 1975,for instance
