题目内容
The interview has been going on for about 20 minutes and everything seems to be going well. Then, suddenly, the interviewer asks an unexpected question, “Which is more important, law or love?”
Job applicants in the west increasingly find themselves asked strange questions like this. And the signs are that this is beginning to happen in China.
Employers want people who are skilled, enthusiastic and devoted. So these are the qualities that any reasonably intelligent job applicant will try to show no matter what his or her actual feelings are. In response, employers are increasingly using the questions which try and show the applicant’s true personality.
The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Kiersey Temperament Sorter. It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems, rather than what they know. This is often called aptitude(天资) test.
According to Mark Baldwin of Alliance, many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult. “When a Chinese fills out an aptitude test, he or she will think there is a right answer but they may fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to see.”
This is sometimes called the prisoner’s dilemma(窘境). Applicants are trying to act cleverly in their own interest, but they fail because they don’t understand what the interviewer is looking for. Remember that in an aptitude test, the correct answer is always the honest answer.
1.What is the purpose of the passage?
A.To give a piece of advice for job interviewees.
B.To tell you how to deal with job interviews.
C.To describe an aptitude test.
D.To advise you how to find a good job.
2.Now employers want to hire workers _____.
A.who know much more than others
B.who are better educated than others
C.who are able to solve the problems
D.who will work harder than others
3.According to the writer, in an aptitude test, Chinese job applicants should _____.
A.not tell the truth
B.offer a complete answer
C.learn to tell what they really think
D.find out what the examiner wants to know
4.From the passage we know that _____.
A.job applicants are always asked such questions
B.more Chinese applicants fail to find a job
C.applicants should not act as cleverly as possible
D.aptitude test is becoming world-wide popular
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