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10.We're looking for personalityHAVE you ever made a profit from walking a dog?Do you like working alone or in groups?Have you ever set a world record in anything?Answer those the right way and you could land a job at Google.
In its desperate search for more engineers and sales representatives for its rapidly growing business,Google has created an automated way to look through the more than 100,000 job applications it receives each month.
Instead of simply looking for people with straight-As,it's starting to ask applicants to fill out an in-depth online survey that examines their attitude,behavior and personality.
Questions concern everything from the age the applicant first got excited about computers to whether the person has ever tutored.They also seek out non-traditional information.This can include what magazines the applicant subscribes to or what pets that person has.
The answers are fed into a series of formulas created by Google's mathematicians that spit out a score from zero to 100.This is meant to predict how well a person will fit into the freewheeling,competitive company culture.
"Google has doubled its number of employees in each of the last three years.As we get bigger,we find it harder and harder to find enough people,'said Laszlo Bock,Google's vice-president for people operations."Interviews are a terrible predictor of performance.With traditional hiring methods,we might overlook some of the best candidates,"he said..
The online survey is based on the answers to 300questions sent out last summer to every employee at the head office in California's Silicon Valley.Now about 15per cent of applicants take the survey.It will be used for all applicants starting this month.
Whether this method will help Google find the right people is yet to be seen."We wanted to cast a very wide net,"said Bock."It is not unusual to walk the halls here at our office in Silicon Valley and bump into dogs.Maybe people who own dogs have some personality trait that is useful."
60.In terms of finding the right people,the passage is mainly aboutA.
A.Google's attempts B.Google's success
C.Google's results D.Google's failure
61.What is not included in the online survey?C
A.attitude B.behavior C.grades D.personality.
62.Why does the author mention dog owners?D
A.Dog owners like to work at Google.
B.Dog owners make the workplace happier.
C.Dog owners are more clever than other people.
D.Dog owners have a non-traditional personality.
分析 本文主要讲述谷歌公司挑选合适的人们的过程以及在线调查.
解答 60-62 ACD
60 A 细节题. 根据文章Google has created an automated way to look through the more than 100,000 job applications it receives each month.可知为了找到合适的人们,这篇文章主要谈论了谷歌的尝试,故选A.
61 C 细节题. 根据文章online survey that examines their attitude,behavior and personality. 可知在线调查包括态度,行为和个性,不包括成绩,故选C.
62 D 细节题.根据文章最后一段 people who own dogs have some personality trait that is useful.可知狗的主人有非常有帮助的个性,突破了传统,故选D.
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.
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