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【题目】 Have you ever picked a job based on the fact that you were good at it but later found it made you feel very uncomfortable over time? When you select your career, there's a whole lot more to it than assessing your skills and matching them with a particular position. If you ignore your personality, it will hurt you long-term regardless of your skills or the job’s pay. There are several areas of your personality that you need to consider to help you find a good job. Here are a few of those main areas;

1) Do you prefer working alone or with other people?

There are isolating jobs that will drive an outgoing person crazy and also interactive jobs that will make a shy person uneasy. Most people are not extremes in either direction but do have a tendency that they prefer. There are also positions that are sometimes a combination of the two, which may be best for someone in the middle who adapts easily to either situation.

2) How do you handle change?

Most jobs these days have some elements of change to them, but some are more than others. If you need stability in your life, you may need a job where the changes don't happen so often. Other people would be bored of the same daily routine.

3) Do you enjoy working with computers？

I do see this as a kind of personality characteristic. There are people who are happy to spend more than 40 hours a week on a computer, while there are others who need a lot of human interaction throughout the day. Again, these are extremes and you'll likely find a lot of positions somewhere in the middle as well.

4) What type of work environment do you enjoy？

This can range from being in a large building with a lot of people you won't know immediately to a smaller setting where you'll get to know almost all the people there fairly quickly.

5) How do you like to get paid?

Some people are motivated by the pay they get, while others feel too stressed to be like that. The variety of payment designs in the sales industry is a typical example for this.

Anyway, these are a great starting point for you. I've seen it over and over again with people that they make more money over time when they do something they love. It may take you a little longer, but making a move to do what you have a passion for can change the course of your life for the better.

【1】What is unnecessary in your job hunting?

A. Assessing your skillsB. Going to different areas

C. Matching your skills with a positionD. taking your personality into consideration

【2】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Isolating jobs usually drive people mad.

B. Interactive jobs make people shy easily.

C. Extreme people tend to work with others.

D. Almost everyone has a tendency in jobs.

【3】What does the underlined sentence in paragraph one mean?

A. Before you select your job, you should assess your skills and match them with your position

B. There are more important things than assessing skills and match them with the position when you select job.

C. Nothing is important than assessing skills and match them with the position when selecting job.

D. You should ignore your skills when you select job.

【4】What is the missing word about a job search in the following chart?

A. Design.B. Changes.

C. Cooperation.D. Hobbies.

【5】What is the best title for this passage?

A. Lifestyles and Job PayB. Jobs and Environment

C. Job Skills and AbilitiesD. Personalities and Jobs

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】B

【4】C

【5】D

【解析】

试题要找一份好工作，考虑自己的个性是很有必要的。本文是篇说明文，主要讲述工作和个性之间的关系。

【1】B细节信息题。根据文章第一段中“When you select your career, there's a whole lot more to it than assessing your skills and matching them with a particular position. If you ignore your personality, it will hurt you long-term regardless of your skills or the job’s pay.”，可知找工作既要衡量衡量一下你的技能，使技能和工作相匹配，还要考虑自己的个性。文章并未提到求职的地方和求职密切相关。故该题答案为B.

【2】D细节信息题。根据文中“There are isolating jobs that will drive an outgoing person crazy and also interactive jobs that will make a shy person uneasy. ”可知，独立性强的工作和合作性的工作都是对特定的人群不适合，故排除A.B.而选项C.“极端的人倾向于和其他人合作”，该文并未提及。又根据“Most people are not extremes in either direction but do have a tendency that they prefer.”（大多数人不会极端地喜欢独立性强的工作或合作性的工作，但他们有喜欢的倾向性。）可知，该题正确答案为D.

【3】B句意推测题。该题做题关键在于more than“不仅仅，超过”，且下文讲到考虑个性也是找工作必不可少的。所以该句句意：“在选择职业的时候，不仅仅要考虑技术和技术和工作对口。”，故正确答案为B.

【4】C推理判断题。A. Design.“设计”； B. Changes.“改变”； C. Cooperation.“合作”； D. Hobbies.“爱好”，通读文章可知择业时应除了考虑“skills”（技术），“Stability”（稳定性），“Environment”（环境），“Motivation”（动机）之外，还应注意1) Do you prefer working alone or with other people?所对应的“Cooperation.“合作”，故正确答案为C.

【5】D主旨大意题。通读全文可知，该文主要人的个性和工作之间的关系。故正确答案为D.