The interview has 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 who are skilled, enthusiastic and devoted．So these are the qualities that any reasonably intelligent job applicant will try to show no matter what his or her actual feelings are．In response, employers are increasingly using the questions which try and show the applicant’s true personality．
The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Kiersey Temperament Sorter．It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems, rather than what they know．This is often called aptitude (天資) test．
According to Mark Baldwin of Alliance, many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult．“When a Chinese fills out an aptitude test, he or she will think there is a right answer but 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 the honest answer．
【小題1】What is the purpose of the passage?

A．To give a piece of advice to job interviewees．
B．To tell you how to deal with job interviews．
C．To advise you how to find a good job．
D．To describe an aptitude test．
【小題2】According to the writer, in an aptitude test, Chinese job applicants should ________.
A．not tell the truth
B．offer a complete answer
C．learn to tell what they really think
D．find out what the examiner wants to know
【小題3】From the passage we know that ________．
A．job applicants are always trying to show their actual feelings
B．a(chǎn)pplicants should not act as cleverly as possible
C．more Chinese applicants fail to find a job
D．a(chǎn)ptitude test is becoming world-wide popular


【小題1】A
【小題2】C
【小題3】D

解析試題分析:在如今的面試中越來(lái)越多的出現(xiàn)一些奇怪的問(wèn)題，這些問(wèn)題主要用來(lái)考查應(yīng)聘者的內(nèi)在品質(zhì)，而不是他們的專業(yè)知識(shí)和能力。面對(duì)這種問(wèn)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(chéng)實(shí)的答案。
【小題1】A推理判斷題。文章首先描述了面試的場(chǎng)景，然后介紹了面試時(shí)候可能會(huì)出現(xiàn)的情況，也就是aptitude (天資) test，最后提出應(yīng)對(duì)方法Remember that in an aptitude test, the correct answer is the honest answer，由此判斷作者的寫(xiě)作目的是給應(yīng)試者一條建議，選A。
【小題2】C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。文章最后一段作者給出了如何應(yīng)對(duì)這種問(wèn)題的建議，即：the correct answer is the honest answer，由此可知答案選C。
【小題3】D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從文章第二段可知在西方國(guó)家面試者被問(wèn)到這種問(wèn)題的情況越來(lái)越多，而且在中國(guó)也有著開(kāi)始的跡象，由此判斷D選項(xiàng)正確。
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