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【题目】 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 increasing find themselves asked strange questions like this.And the signs are that this is beginning to happening in China.

Employers want people who are skilled，enthusiastic(热情的） 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(应答），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 Kiersey Personality Sorter.It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems，rather than what they know.This is often called aptitude(倾向性）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 well 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.

3【1】The writer wrote the passage to ______.

A.give you a piece of advice on a job interview

B.tell you a piece of advice on a job interview

C.describe an aptitude test

D.advise you how to find a good job

【2】Now employers want to hire workers______.

A.who know much more than others

B.who are better skilled than others

C.who are able to solve different problems

D.who will work harder than others

【3】According to the writer，in an aptitude testing，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

【4】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.aptitude testing is becoming popular the world wide

Answer 1

【答案】【1】 A

【2】 C

【3】 B

【4】 D

【解析】【1】 通读全文，结合文章最后一句话“Remember that in an aptitude test，the correct answer is always the honest answer.”可知A项正确。

【2】 文章第四段“It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems，rather than what they know.This is often called aptitude（倾向性）testing.”已暗示出雇佣人的意向。

【3】 通读文章最后两段，和文章最后一句Remember that in an aptitude test，the correct answer is always the honest answer.答案便知。

【4】 And the signs are that this is beginning to happening in China.

文章第二段可暗示出答案。