UNIT 7 Beauty 课文及课后练习

UNIT SEVEN Beauty

Dialogue

Ayu: Mom，I have something exciting to tell you。

Mother：What's up？1

Ayu: I’m going to have an operation to get my eyelids fixed. Mother：What？Are you saying that you're going to get an expensive cosmetic surgery？At a hospital？

Ayu: Well, it's……it's not so expensive，and it's only my eyelids Mother：Only your eyelids？！

Ayu：Yeah. It's not like I'm going to，you know，do anything drastic. I' m just going to fix it so I can look prettier. And Mom，it's my money. I've saved it. I' ve been working to save my money，and I…it's my body. Mother：So that explains it. That's why you’ve been working extra hours. But you're beautiful the way you are. You look great.

Ayu: But，Mom，boys don't see what you see in me. If I look beautiful，then，you know, I'll be approached by more boys. Maybe I'll have a chance 2to get jobs that I wouldn't be able to if I didn' t fix my eyelids. Mother：Honey，you should attract people with your inner beauty. Your personality，your intelligence ---not your looks.

Ayu: Mom，you don’t understand. Boys aren't attracted by your intelligence and your wit. The first thing they see is your looks. If you're not beautiful，they won't approach you at all. Then how are they to know

if you have wit or intelligence?

Mother：You can't do this.

Ayu：Mom，I'm doing it whether you like it or not. 3

Mother：I think you're making a terrible mistake.

Make your own dialogue with the substitutes，making necessary changes:

1. What's the matter？/ What is it？

2. an opportunity

3. no matter what you think

Passage A

Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?

Pre-reading questions:

1. How do you understand "beauty is in the eye of the beholder？

2. What is beauty in your eye?

Is there such a thing as the perfect face？Is beauty something you can measure?

Recent scientific evidence suggests that the answer is "yes". A new science，the science of attraction，has come to the conclusion that beauty is objective and quantifiable and not，as the romantics believe，in the

eye of the beholder.

For more than a century，it was thought that a beautiful face was appealing because it was a collection of average features. Using his computer system，Dr. David Perrett of the University of St. Andrews has challenged the theory. In a key experiment，photographs of women were ranked for their attractiveness by a number of volunteers. Two composite pictures were then created：one，the average of all the pictures；the other made from those rated most attractive. Although the faces looked very similar at first glance， a significant number said they preferred the composite of most attractive faces.

"The conclusion I reached,” said Dr. Perrett，"was that the most attractive shape was not average. If you look at famous film stars and supermodels，most of them have ideal features-----larger than normal eyes，higher arched eyebrows，slightly smaller noses，cheekbones are a little more prominent. Even popular cartoon characters such as Betty Boop，Yasmin from Aladdin and Bambi have big eyes，small turned-up noses，big mouths and small chins. And if these features are exaggerated，the attractiveness rating goes up even more. Julia Roberts is a good example of this.”

But what do scientists make of men's faces？Do men with large eyes，high cheekbones and a small chin have the same irresistible appeal？Researchers were a bit shocked at the top-ranking male face. They