8.The interview had been going on for about 20minutes and everything seems to be going well.Then,suddenly,the interviewer asks an unexpected question,"Which is more important,law or Dove?"
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 (能力傾向測驗).
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.
28.The writer wrote the passage toA.
A.give you a piece of advice on a job interview
B.tell you how to meet a job interviewer
C.describe the aptitude test
D.a(chǎn)dvise you how to find a job
29.Why do the interviewers ask such questions?C
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.
30.According to the writer,in an aptitude test,Chinese job applicants shouldB.
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 want to know
31.From the passage we know thatD.
A.job applicants are always asked such questions
B.more Chinese applicants fail to find a job
C.a(chǎn)pplicants should not act as reasonably as a prisoner
D.the aptitude test is becoming popular worldwide.
分析 在如今的面試中越來越多的出現(xiàn)一些奇怪的問題,這些問題主要用來考查應聘者的內(nèi)在品質(zhì),而不是他們的專業(yè)知識和能力.面對這種問題,作者給出的建議是:不要去考慮出題人想要什么樣的答案,最好的答案就是誠實的答案.
解答 28.答案:A.主旨大意題.通讀全文,根據(jù)全文內(nèi)容可知,本文主要為面試者提供了建議.故選A.
29.答案:C.細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)第四段中的"It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems,rather than what they know."可知,這是一個試圖發(fā)現(xiàn)人們?nèi)绾谓鉀Q問題,而不是他們知道什么.故選C.
30.答案:B.細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)最后一段的最后一句"Remember that in an aptitude test,the correct answer is always the honest answer."可知,在能力傾向測驗中,求職者應該給出一個誠實的答案.故選B.
31.答案:D.推理判斷題.根據(jù)文章第二段的內(nèi)容可知,西方的求職者們不斷發(fā)現(xiàn)他們被問到類似這樣的奇怪問題,而且有跡象表明這種情況在中國也開始出現(xiàn).由此可推知D項正確.故選D.
點評 本文是一篇科教類閱讀,題目涉及多道細節(jié)理解題,推理判斷題,主旨大意題.做題時學生應仔細閱讀原文,把握文章主要內(nèi)容,聯(lián)系文章上下文內(nèi)容并結(jié)合所給選項含義,從中選出正確答案,一定要做到有理有據(jù),切忌胡亂猜測.