题目内容
My newly-rented small apartment was far away from the centre of London and it was becoming essential for me to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the underground. They were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn’t drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T.S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I’d be a subway guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. Obviously I’d be overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges — those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre.
The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. I must have done all right because after about half an hour’s wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. This time there were only about fifty candidates. The interviewer sat at a desk. Candidates were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed, after a greater or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half.
I can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job?” “Why did you leave your job before that?” “And the one before that?” I can’t recall my answers, except that they were short at first and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, revealed (揭示) a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway. “You’ve failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.”
Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such jobs — being a postman is another one I still desire — demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. But I was still far short of full self-understanding. I was also short of cash.
【小题1】The writer applied for the job chiefly because _________.
A.he wanted to work in the centre of London |
B.he could no longer afford to live without one |
C.he was not interested in any other available job |
D.he had received some suitable training |
A.he often traveled underground | B.he had written many poems |
C.he could deal with difficult situations | D.he had worked in a company |
A.he was not going to be offered the job |
B.he had not done well in the intelligence test |
C.he did not like the interviewer at all |
D.he had little work experience to talk about |
A.How unpleasant ordinary jobs can be. | B.How difficult it is to be a poet. |
C.How unsuitable he was for the job. | D.How badly he did in the interview. |
【小题1】B
【小题2】C
【小题3】A
【小题4】C
解析这是一篇故事(记叙文),讲述了作者找工作碰壁的经历,文章最后还告诫读者:看似简单的工作其实需要梦想家们所不具备的责任意识。
【小题1】考查学生对信息进行加工和处理的能力。第1段提到:Obviously I’d be overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges…, 此外,文章最后也提到:I was also short of cash. 故选B。
【小题2】考查学生对信息进行加工和处理的能力。第1段提到:I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. “……在危急时刻能应付自如的人,做保安其素质当然绰绰有余了”,故选C。
【小题3】考查细节。第2段提到:Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. … Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half. 故选A。
【小题4】考查推理能力。最后一段提到:Actually, such jobs … demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. 这类工作需要有一种基本的责任意识,而惯于空想者没有这种意识,故选C。
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