2013年江苏省高考二轮复习强化训练43.docVIP

2013年江苏省高考二轮复习强化训练43 .阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳选项。 A My newly-rented small apartment was far away from the centre of London and it was becomingessential for me to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my namedown to be considered by London Transport for a job on the underground. They were looking forguards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn’ t drive a car hut thought that I could probably guard atrain，and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov hadbeen doctors. T. S. Eliot had worked in a hank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I dhe a subway guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a capable man in a crisis(危机）?Obviously I’d he overqualified hut I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income, andtravel privileges—those being particuIarly welcome to someone living a long way from the citycentre. The next day I sat down , with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. Imust have clone all right because after about half an hour’ s wait I was sent into another room for apsychological (心理学的）test. This time there were only about fifty candidates. The interviewer sat ata desk. Candidates were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupanthad been dismissed，after a greater or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the moresuccessful ones. Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one lhatlasted a minute and a half. I can remember the questions now ： ‘‘Why did you leave your last job?” “Why did you leaveyour job before that?，，‘‘And the one before that?’，I can’ t recall my answers, except that they wereshort at first and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, showed a lack ofsensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than theunderground railway. “ You’ve failed the psychological te