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 |
完形填空(共20小題；每小題I. 5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空内处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When Dunstan Cass left the cottage, Silas Marner was only a hundred meters away. He was walking home from the village, where he had 21 to buy what he needed 22 his next day's work. His legs were tired, but he felt almost happy. He was looking forward to 23 ,when he would bring out his gold. Tonight he had an extra reason to hurry home. He was going to eat hot meat, which was 24 for him. And it would 25 him nothing, because someone had given him a piece of meat as a present. He left it 26 over the fire. The door key was needed to hold it safe in place, but Cass was not at all 27 about leaving his gold in the cottage with the door 28 . He could not imagine that a thief would 29 his way through the mist, rain and darkness to the little cottage by the quarry (釆石场).
When he reached his cottage and opened the door, he did not notice 30 anything was different. He 31 his wet coat, and pushed the meat 32 the fire. 33 he was warm again, he began to think about his gold. It seemed a long time to wait until after super, when he usually brought out coins to look at. 34 he decided to bring out his gold immediately, while the meat was still cooking.
But when he 35 the floorboards near the loom (织布机)，and saw the 36 hole ,he did not understand 37 . His heart beat violently as his trembling hands felt all round the hole. There was 38 ！ He put his hands to his head and tried to think. Had he put his gold in a different place, and forgotten about it? He 39 every corner of this small cottage, until he could not pretend to himself any more. He had to accept the truth 一 his gold had been 40 ！
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—It’s cloudy outside,please take an umbrella.—_________.
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A．Yes,take it easy. |
B．Well,it just depends |
C．Ok,just in case |
D．All right,you’re welcome |
Jack as well as the other students who ______ sent abroad by the government ______ brought up in a small town.
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—Do you mind if I close the window?
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— Hi, Tom．Any idea where Mary is? ．
一 She ______in the reading room．I saw her there just now．
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D．might have been |
