双语：俊男美女智商更高

 　　Beauty and intelligence: Supermodel Lily Cole, Cambridge student, and Hollywood actress Kate Beckinsale who studied at Oxford¹.

　　Handsome men and women often appear to be blessed with lucky lives. Now research has shown they are cleverer than most people as well.

　　Studies in Britain and America have found they have IQs 14 points above average.

　　The findings dispel² the myth of the dumb blondes or good-looking men not being very bright.

　　It appears that those already physically³ blessed attract partners who are not just good looking but brainytoo, according to research by the London School of Economics.

　　The children of these couples will tend to inherit both qualities, building a genetic⁴ link over successive generations between them.

　　LSE researcher Satoshi Kanazawa told the Sunday Times: "Physical attractiveness is significantly positively⁵ associated with general intelligence, both with and without controls for social class, body size and health.

　　"The association between attractiveness and general intelligence is also stronger among men than among women."

　　In other research on social standing⁶, he found that middle-class girls tended to have higher IQs than their working-class counterparts.

　　Among the millions of examples of beauty and brains, there's supermodel Lily Cole who went to Cambridge University, actress Kate Beckinsale, an Oxford graduate, and physicist⁷ Brian Cox, one-time keyboard player with D:ream.

　　In Britain, the study found that men who are physically attractive had IQs an average 13.6 points above the norm while women were about 11.4 points higher.

　　Kanazawa's findings were based on the National Child Development Study which followed 17,419 people since their birth in a single week in March, 1958.

　　Throughout their childhood up to early adulthood⁸, they were given a series of tests for academic progress, intelligence and marked on appearance.

　　The American research was taken from the National LongitudinalStudy of Adolescent Health which involved a similar study of 35,000 young Americans.

　　Kanazawa, whose paper was published in the academic journal Intelligence, said: 'Our contentionthat beautiful people are more intelligent is purely⁹ scientific. It is not a prescriptionfor how to treat or judge others.'

　　长得好看的男人和女人似乎常常拥有幸运的人生，如今研究显示他们还比大多数人都聪明。

　　英国和美国的研究发现，相貌好的人的智商比平均智商高出14分。

　　这些发现打破了“俊男美女多无脑”的传言。

　　伦敦政治经济学院的一项研究发现，那些被赋予一副好相貌的人往往能吸引那些既漂亮又聪明的人成为他们的伴侣。

　　这些夫妇生下来的孩子通常会继承他们的美貌和智慧，这种基因联系经历连续数代后将被强化。

　　伦敦政经学院的研究人员金泽聪告诉《星期日泰晤士报》说：“不管是否考虑社会阶层、体型以及健康水平，外表吸引力与总体智力之间有显著的正面关联。”

　　“而且，男性的这种关联要比女性强烈。”

　　在其他关于社会地位的研究中，金泽聪先生发现中产阶层女性的智商一般会高于同年龄工人阶级女性的智商。

　　既有美貌又有头脑的人有很多，例如去剑桥大学念书的超模莉莉科尔、从牛津大学毕业的女演员凯特贝金赛尔，还有D:ream乐队前键盘手布莱恩考克斯，他也是一位物理学家。

　　在英国，研究发现俊男的平均智商要比普通人高13.6分，而美女的平均智商比普通人高11.4分。

　　金泽的发现基于“英国全国儿童发展研究”，该研究跟踪调查了1.74万个在1958年3月某个星期内出生的人。

　　从他们的童年时期到成年早期，研究人员让他们做了一系列的测验来评估他们的学业进度和智力。研究人员还给他们的外貌打了分。

　　美国这一研究的数据来自“全国青少年健康纵向研究”，该研究与英国的那项研究相似，共调查了3.5万个美国年轻人。

　　金泽说：“‘漂亮的人更聪明’这一论点是纯科学的，不能作为对待或评判他人的基准。”金泽聪的论文发表在学术期刊《智力》上。

　　Vocabulary:

　　brainy: very intelligent（十分聪明的）

　　longitudinal: concerning the development of something over a period of time（纵观的）

　　contention: a belief or an opinion that you express, especially in an argument （尤指争论时的）看法，观点

　　prescription: a plan or a suggestion for making something happen or for improving it

1 Oxford   

n.牛津（英国城市）

参考例句：

• At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
• This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。

2 dispel   

vt.驱走，驱散，消除

参考例句：

• I tried in vain to dispel her misgivings.我试图消除她的疑虑，但没有成功。
• We hope the programme will dispel certain misconceptions about the disease.我们希望这个节目能消除对这种疾病的一些误解。

3 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

4 genetic   

adj.遗传的，遗传学的

参考例句：

• It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
• Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。

5 positively   

adv.明确地，断然，坚决地；实在，确实

参考例句：

• She was positively glowing with happiness.她满脸幸福。
• The weather was positively poisonous.这天气着实讨厌。

6 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

7 physicist   

n.物理学家，研究物理学的人

参考例句：

• He is a physicist of the first rank.他是一流的物理学家。
• The successful physicist never puts on airs.这位卓有成就的物理学家从不摆架子。

8 adulthood   

n.成年，成人期

参考例句：

• Some infantile actions survive into adulthood.某些婴儿期的行为一直保持到成年期。
• Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。

9 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。