Question

Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do especially in a tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. “It’s amazing how many candidates eliminate(淘汰) themselves, ” he says.

Resumes arrive with stains. Some candidates don’t bother to spell the company’s name correctly. “Once I see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate, ” Crossley concludes, “If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job? ”

Can we pay too much attention to details?  Absolutely, perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. “To keep from losing the forest for the trees, ” says Charles Garfield, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, “We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we’re working on fit into the larger picture. If they don’t, we should drop them and move to something else. ”

Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA.

“This allowed us to make adjustments(调节) as necessary. Knowing where we want to go helps  judge the importance of every task we undertake. The Apollo 11 moon launch was slightly-off course 90 percent of the time, ”says Garfield, “but a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact position of our goal. ”

Too often we believe what accounts for others’ success is some special secret or a lucky break. But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.

1. According to the passage, some job applicants were rejected ______.

A. because of their carelessness as shown or their failure to present a clean copy of resume

B. because of their limited education as shown in their poor spelling in writing a resume

C. because they failed to give a detailed description of their background in their application

D. because they eliminated their names from the applicants’ list themselves

2. The word “perfectionist” (Para. 3, Line 1) refers to those who ______.

A. demand others get everything absolutely right

B. know how to adjust their goals according to the circumstances

C. pay too much attention to details only to lose their major objectives

D. are capable of achieving perfect results in what ever they do

3. The example of Apollo 11 moon launch is given to illustrate that ______.

A. minor mistakes may not be noticed in achieving major objectives

B. failure is the mother of success

C. adjustments are the key to the successful completion of any work

D. keeping one’s goal in mind helps in deciding which details can be over looked

4. The best title for this passage would be ______.

A. Don’t Be a Perfectionist

B. Importance of Adjustments

C. Details and Major Objectives

D. Hard Work Plus Good Luck

 

Answer 1

答案：A;C;D;C
提示：

从文章的前三段可以知道，一些求职者因为细节的问题而自己淘汰了自己，故1题选A. Apollo 11 moon launch的例子说明了牢记自己的目标可以帮助决定那些细节可以忽略，3题选D。4题为文章确定题目，C项很适合。