I had offered to watch my 3-year-old daughter, so that my wife could go out with a friend. I was getting some work done in my study while she   1   to be having a good time in the other room. No problem, I figured. But then it got a little too   2   and I shouted, “What are you doing?” No response. I   3   my question and heard her say, “Oh…nothing.” Nothing?

I got up from my desk and ran out   4   the living room, where I saw her running across the hall. I followed and watched her as her little behind made a quick   5   into the bathroom. I had her   6  ! I told her to turn around. She   7  . I pulled out my big Daddy voice, “Young lady, I said turn around!”

  8  , she turned toward me. In her hand was what was left of my wife’s new lipstick. And every square inch of her face was   9   with bright red! As she looked up at me with fearful eyes. I heard   10   voice that had been shouted to me as a child. “How could you… You should know…How many times have you been   11   What a bad thing to…” it was just a matter of my picking out which old   12   I was going to use on her so that she would know what a bad girl she had been. But   13   I could let loose, I looked   14  at the sweater on her. In big   15   it said. “I’M A PERFECT LITTLE ANGEL (天使)!” I looked back up into her tearful eyes and,   16   seeing bad girl who didn’t listen, I saw a little angel full of   17   that I had come dangerously close to   18  . “Sweetheart, let’s take a picture so Mommy can see how   19   you look.” I took the picture and thanked God that I didn’t   20   the chance to prove what a perfect little angel he had given me.

1. A. happened          B. liked                C. appeared         D. pretended

2. A. long              B. quiet                C. calm             D. strange

3. A. asked         B. answered         C. raised               D. repeated

4. A. into              B. of               C. from             D. for

5. A. way               B. turn             C. change               D. progress

6. A. followed          B. scolded          C. cornered         D. fooled

7. A. laughed           B. listened         C. agreed               D. refused

8. A. Slowly            B. Eagerly          C. Angrily          D. Unfortunately

9. A. filled            B. marked           C. printed              D. covered

10. A. every            B. such             C. any              D. one

11. A. told         B. beaten               C. frightened           D. forbidden

12. A. reports          B. notice               C. advice               D. words

13. A. as               B. when             C. since                D. before

14. A. up               B. down             C. in                   D. on

15. A. signs            B. letters              C. messages         D. figures

16. A. because of       B. instead of           C. in spite of          D. as a result of

17. A. value            B. sadness          C. pities               D. tricks

18. A. preventing       B. getting rid of       C. destroying           D. doing wrong on

19. A. dirty            B. ugly             C. special              D. silly

20. A. have                   B. get                           C. take                         D. miss

Imagine it's 2035.You have a good job,a big family and you're about 40 years old.Welcome to your future life.

Getting ready for work,you pause in front of the mirror.“Turn red,” you say.Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red.Tiny preprogrammed electronics are rearranged in your shirt to change its color.Looking into the mirror,you find it hard to believe that you are 40.You look much younger.With amazing advances in medicine,people in your generation may live to be 150 years old.You're not even middle­aged.

As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal(谷类食物) into a bowl,you hear: “To lose weight,you shouldn't eat that,” from your shoes.They read the tiny electronic code on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details.You decide to listen to your shoes.“Kitchen,what can I have for breakfast?” A list of possible foods appear on the counter as kitchen checks its food supplies.

“Ready for your trip to space.” You ask your son and daughter.Before the 21st century only specially trained astronauts went into space—and very few of them.Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacation.Your best friend even works in space.Handing your children three strawberries each,you add,“The doctor said you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advice,vaccination shots(疫苗注射) are a thing of the past.Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines.With the berries in their mouths,the kids head for the front door.

It's time for you to go to work.Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors.“My office.Autopilot.” You command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway.You sit back and unroll your e­newspaper.The latest news downloads and fills the viewer.Looking through the pages,you watch the news as video films rather than read it.

20.What changes the color of your shirt?

A.The mirror. 

B.The shirt itself.

C.The counter. 

D.The medicine.

21.How do the shoes know that you shouldn't eat breakfast cereal?

A.By pouring breakfast cereal into a bowl.

B.By listening to the doctor's advice.

C.By testing the food supplies in the kitchen.

D.By checking the nutrition details of the food.

22.How is the text organized?

A.In order of time.

B.In order of character.

C.In order of preference.

D.In order of importance.

The interview had 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 skilled,enthusiastic and devoted.So these are the qualities that any reasonably intelligent job applicants will try to show no matter what his or her actual feelings are.In response,employers are increasingly using questions which try and show the applicant's true personality.

The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Keirsey Personality Sorter.It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems,rather than what they know.This is often called an aptitude test(能力倾向测验).

According to Mark Baldwin many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult.When a Chinese person fills out an aptitude test he or she will think there is a right answer and they may fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to see.

This is sometimes called the prisoner's dilemma.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.

16.The writer wrote the passage to ________.

A.give a piece of advice for job interviewees

B.tell you how to meet a job interviewer

C.describe the aptitude test

D.advice you how to find a job

17.Why do the interviewers ask such questions?

A.They want to discover what the interviewees know.

B.They are curious about the answers.

C.They try to discover the ability of the interviewees' solving problems.

D.They just ask questions without thinking much.

18.According to the writer,in an aptitude test,Chinese job applicants should ________.

A.not tell the truth

B.learn to tell what they really think

C.be more enthusiastic

D.try to find out what the examiner really wants to know

19.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 reasonably as a prisoner

D.the aptitude test is becoming popular worldwide

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