UNIT 1 课时跟踪检测（二） 语言运用综合练（Word练习）-【新课程学案】新教材2022-2023学年高中英语选择性必修第三册（外研版2019）

UNIT 1 课时跟踪检测（二） 语言运用综合练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 If you're a man, at some point a woman will ask you how she looks. “How do I look？” she'll ask. You must be careful how you answer this question. The best technique is to form an honest yet sensitive opinion, then collapse on the floor with some kind of fatal seizure. Trust me, this is the easiest way out. Because you will never come up with the right answer. The problem is that women generally do not think of their looks in the same way that men do. Most men form an opinion of how they look in the seventh grade, and they stick to it for the rest of their lives. Some men form the opinion that they are Brad Pitt or something, and they do not change this opinion even when their faces sag and their noses explode to the size of eggplants and their eyebrows grow together to form what appears to be a giant forehead-dwelling tropical caterpillar. Most men, I believe, think of themselves as average-looking. Men will think this even if their faces cause heart diseases in cattle at a range of 300 yards. Being average does not bother them; average is fine, for men. This is why men never ask anybody how they look. Their primary form of beauty care is to shave themselves, which is essentially the same form of beauty care that they give to their lawns. If, at the end of his four-minute daily beauty regimen, a man has managed to wipe most of the shaving cream out of his hair and is not bleeding too badly, he feels that he has done all he can, so he stops thinking about his appearance and devotes his mind to more critical issues, such as the Super Bowl. Women do not look at themselves this way. If I had to express, in three words, what I believe most women think about their appearances, those words would be: “not good enough.” No matter how attractive a woman may appear to be to others, when she looks at herself in the mirror she thinks: Woof! She thinks that at any moment a municipal animal-control officer is going to throw a net over her and hau