中国大学MOOC:"According to the text, men and women evaluate their appearance differently in a way that men are satisfied with being average-looking, paying little attention to their looks, while women pay great attention to their body and image, considering their appearance as not good enough even if they are in fact attractive.";
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- According to the text, in what way do men and women evaluate their appearance differently?
- What are the differences between men and women in care for details in women’s appearance? A: Men take no notice of the details. B: Women take no notice of the details. C: Women pay much attention on the details. D: Men pay much attention on the details.
- According to the last paragraph of the text, women think men are not qualified to judge whether a woman looks good or not because men do not even care about their own appearance.
- When a woman asks a man how she looks, it is very difficult for him to ___________ the right answer. Men do not think of their looks in the same way as women do. They ________ an opinion and like to think of themselves as average-looking. They don’t __________________ to their looks. However, women tend to think their appearance is “not good enough”. They would _______ the smallest imperfections in their bodies. The differences between how men and women view their own looks are caused by complex ____________ and societal factors. First, men and women have different childhood experiences with toys. Girls’ dolls have slim figures whose physical measurements are _________ for living human beings to achieve while boys’ toys are weird-looking. Second, beauty industry exerts different influences on them. Women are _________ that they must buy the newest beauty products and _____ them carefully, whereas men are not influenced; they don’t face the societal _____ purely on physical beauty. Men and women also have differences in care for details in women’s appearance. Men _________________ the details, but women spend great efforts on details of appearance only to _______ themselves to criticisms by other women. Anyway, to get back to my _______ point: There is no easy way for a man to answer a woman’s question of how she looks.
- Why do men and women view their looks so differently?