61) How physically attractive someone is plays a role in determining your ideas about the desirability of developing an acquaintance or a friendship with that person. Attractiveness seems to influence our perception of. others’ traits. Attractive people are judged to be more poised, sociable, independent, interesting, exciting, and to have greater sexual warmth.
In one study concerned with the importance of physical attractiveness, Karen Dion and her colleagues asked university students to rate a series of photographs of both males and females as high, average, or low in physical attractiveness. The photos were then passed onto another group of students, who were asked to rate those pictures on a number of personality traits and to predict future events in their lives. 62) The results showed that, regardless of whether the rater was the same or the opposite sex as the subject, attractive people of both sexes rated as having more socially desirable personal
| How many of today’s ailments, or even
illnesses, are purely psychological And how far can these be alleviated by the
use of drugs For example a psychiatrist concerned mainly with the emotional
problems of old people might improve their state of mind somewhat by the use of
anti-depressants but he would not remove the root cause of their depression—the
feeling of being useless, often unwanted and handicapped by failing physical
powers. One of the most important controversies in medicine today is how far doctors, and particularly psychologists, should depend on the use of drugs for "curing" their patients. It is not merely that drugs may have been insufficiently tested and may reveal harmful side effects (as happened in the case of anti-sickness pills prescribed for expectant mothers) but the uneasiness of doctors who feel that th A. could be ineffective in some cases B. usually have harmful side effects C. can greatly alleviate the illnesses D. can remove the root causes [单项选择]Passage Five
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