Women Wearing Cosmetics Are Paid More

LISTENING – Guess the answers

1) a good reason why women spend so long in the morning getting ______
 a. readily for work
 b. readied for work
 c. ready for work
 d. readies for work

2) they get paid more if they wear makeup and ______
 a. to their hair
 b. dew their hair
 c. due their hair
 d. do their hair

3) get paid around 20 per cent more than what they called ______
 a. "averaged" people
 b. "average" people
 c. "averages" people
 d. "over age" people

4) They found that both physically attractive men and women tended ______
 a. to earns more
 b. to earning more
 c. to earn more
 d. to earned more

5) only about half of the effect of attractiveness is ______
 a. dew to grooming
 b. due two grooming
 c. due too grooming
 d. due to grooming

6) It will be published in the journal Research in Social Stratification ______
 a. of Mobility
 b. end Mobility
 c. by Mobility
 d. and Mobility

7) salary, job, education, personality, social behaviour and ______
 a. another characteristics
 b. other characteristics
 c. others characteristics
 d. other characteristic

8) rate each participant on how attractive and well groomed ______
 a. they are
 b. they were
 c. them were
 d. these were

9) Researchers said people were biased when it comes to beauty because of ______
 a. a 'halo effect'
 b. a 'hello effect'
 c. a 'hay low effect'
 d. a 'hail oh effect'

10) researchers noted that the idea that humans are influenced by beauty ______
 a. bias is not new
 b. basis is not new
 c. by us is not new
 d. buy us is not new

Listening Comprehension

1) What do women spend a long
time doing in the morning?
a) reading the newspaper
b) getting ready
c) sleeping
d) eating breakfast

2) How many sociologists are
mentioned in the article?
a) 5
b) 4
c) 3
d) 2

3) How much more do attractive
people get paid?
a) 40% more
b) 30% more
c) 20% more
d) 10% more

4) Who do attractive people get
more pay than?
a) average people
b) bosses
c) their colleagues
d) researchers

5) How much of the attractiveness of
men is because of grooming?
a) three-quarters
b) about half
c) two-thirds
d) two-fifths

6) What university carried out the
study besides California?
a) Chicago
b) Michigan
c) Maine
d) New York

7) How many people took part in the
study?
a) 140,000
b) 1,400
c) 14,000
d) 4,000

8) Who did interviewers have to rate?
a) participants
b) themselves
c) models
d) bosses

9) What is the effect mentioned in the
article that is related to beauty?
a) hollow effect
b) help effect
c) hello effect
d) halo effect

10) What idea did the researchers say
was not new?
a) pay
b) inside beauty
c) beauty bias
d) attractiveness