More Vocabulary Practice

Complete the article with the words and expressions below. Make any necessary changes.good looks reflection favorably reject considerably standards of beauty react exposure attractive similarity The expression "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" means that not everyone agrees on who is beautiful and who is not. In other words, people have different standards of beauty.Evolutionary psychologists, however, say this isn't true. They reject the idea behind the expression. They claim that all people are born with the same ideas of who is attractive and who is not. They say that there are a lot of similarities in what people all over the world consider to be beautiful.Many studies have shown that young babies react more positively to good-looking faces than ugly ones. According to the research, two-month-old babies looked at people with good looks for a much longer time and responded more favorably than they did to less attractive people. In another study, 12-month-olds played considerably longer with pretty dolls than they did with plain-looking dolls.Perhaps we don't only "learn" about what's beautiful from our society and from exposure to the mass media. Maybe the standards of beauty we see in magazines and on TV are only a reflection of the ideals of beauty we were born with. Write your reaction to the article above. Use at least FIVE words or expressions from the NEW VOCABULARY and At least 80 words.