Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks

Think back to your last job interview. If it felt like the hiring manager was more (26) ______ on how you look, whether you smiled and your age and race than your qualifications for the job, you could be right. Fairy godboss surveyed 500 hiring professionals (50.2% female and 49.8% male) in October and showed them photos of women of varying ages and races with different body shapes, hairstyles, demeanors and clothing. The hiring managers were asked to pick three adjectives to describe each woman from a list of 11 adjectives- professional, unprofessional, leadership material, confident, intelligent, friendly and (27) ______. The candidate (28) ______ hiring managers most frequently selected as most likely to be hired was a young and thin.
The only way to achieve parity in hiring practices is if applicants and managers are aware of these (29) ______ biases and incorporate ways to overcome them. (30) ______, hiring managers need to ask themselves, if they‟re not sure if someone is leader, is it because the candidate looks a certain way or because the candidate doesn‟t have any leadership experience.
(Adapted from www.forbes.com)