湖北省武汉市2016高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解基础训练（8.docVIP

湖北武汉市2016高考英语阅读理解基础训练（8） 【2015高考复习】阅读理解 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 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 (能力倾向测验)． 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. 【语篇解读　本文讲述了现代企业招聘面试中的能力倾向测试并为求职者提供了回答此类问题的技巧。 1．The writer wrote the passage to________. 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．advice you how to find a job 解析　写作目的题。通读全文可知，本文意在为面试者提供建议。 答案　A 2．Why do the interviewers ask such questions? 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. 解析　细节理解题。根据第四段中的“It is