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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

The dating world is cruel. No matter how much we stress the importance of "inner beauty", looks are undoubtedly 1. advantage in the dating game. That the 2. (excellence) woman he admires will realize her error in judgment after having been rejected by a handsome fellow and notice him 3. (be) the dream of every average-looking guy. Well, such a dream is highly unlikely, according to newly 4. (publish) research.

The study, 5. focused on the responses of 126 female undergraduates after romantic rejection, 6. (lead) by psychologist Geoff MacDonald. Researchers found women’s distancing 7. an unattractive man — even when that unattractive man offered acceptance — was also a 8. (consequent) of rejection by an attractive man. In other words, after being refused by a handsome fellow, women were found to be more likely to reject a less attractive man, thus 9. (make) the pain caused by the initial rejection even worse. The indication here is obvious: Looks are 10. (close) associated with status, at least in the dating world.