题目内容
Try to guess which _____ the horse _____ to me?
A. is, belongs B. does, belong C. is, belonging D. is, belonged
C
I was blind, but I was ashamed of it if it was known. I refused to use a white stick and hated asking for help. After all, I was a teenager girl, and I couldn’t bear people to look at me and think I was not like them. I must have been a terrible danger on the roads, Coming across me wandering through the traffic, motorists probably would have to step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there were all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.
One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something,“I’m awfully sorry,”I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost. This was just one of the stupid things that constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop,which was a request stop, where the bus wouldn’t stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to try to guess if the bus had arrived.
Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help,I tried to guess at the sound.Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.
But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop;It seemed that everyone had suddenly decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass,or I thought I did.But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself,I let them all go by.I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one.Then I gave up.I decided to walk on to the next stop.
【小题1】The girl refused to ask for help because she thought_________
| A.she might be recognized | B.asking for help looked silly |
| C.she was normal and independent | D.being fond blind was embarrassing |
| A.began to run | B.hit a person as usual |
| C.hit a lamppost by accident | D.was caught by something |
| A.Other vehicles (车辆)also stopped there. |
| B.It was unreliable for making judgments. |
| C.More lorries than buses responded to the girl. |
| D.It took too much time for the girl to catch the bus. |
| A.to find people there | B.to find more buses there |
| C.to find the bus by herself there | D.to find people more helpful there |
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 Kiersey Personality Sorter.It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems, rather than what they know.This is often called aptitude (能力) testing.
According to Mark Baldwin of Alliance 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 (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.The writer wrote the passage to ____.
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A.give you a piece of advice on a job interview. |
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B.tell you how to meet a job interviewer |
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C.describe the aptitude test. |
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D.advice you how to find a job |
2.Why do the interviewers ask such questions?
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A.they want to discover what the interviewees know. |
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B.they are curious about the answers. |
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C.they try to discover the ability of the interviewees' solving problems. |
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D.they just ask questions without thinking much. |
3.According to the writer, in an aptitude testing, Chinese job applicants should___.
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A.not tell the truth |
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B.learn to tell what they really think |
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C.be more enthusiastic |
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D.try to find out what the examiner really want to know |
4.From the passage we know that____.
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A.job applicants are always asked such questions |
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B.more Chinese applicants fail to find a job |
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C.applicants should not act as reasonably as a prisoner |
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D.aptitude testing is becoming popular worldwide |