英语四级读美文【10】.docxVIP

Unit 10 Attitudes Toward Life 生活态度 Text 1 Attention to Detail Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do especially in a tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. “It’s amazing how many candidates eliminate themselves.” He says. “Resumes arrive with stains. Some candidates don’t bother to spell the company’s name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate,” Crossley concludes, “if they cannot take off these details, why should we trust them with a job?” Can we pay too much attention to detail? Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. “To keep from losing the forest for the trees”, says Charles Garfield, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, “we must constantly ask ourselves how the details we’re working on fit into the larger picture. If they don’t, we should drop them and move to something else.” Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. “The Apollo Ⅱ moon launch was slightly off course 90 percent of the time,” says Garfield. “But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary.” Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake. Too often we believe what accounts for others’ success is some special secret or a lucky break. But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow. [A] accounts [B] associate [C] bother [D] coordinates [E] drop [F] eliminate [G] especially [H] grasp [I] launch [J] mysterious [K] Resumes [L] undertake 注重细节 注意细节是每个人都能做到并且应该做到的事情，尤其在竞争激烈的就业市场中更应该这样。人力资源专家鲍勃·克罗斯里从每天递交到他桌上的求职函中注意到了这一点。“令人吃惊的是有许多人自己淘汰了自己。”他说，“送来的简历竟有污迹。一些应聘者都懒得把公司的名称拼写正确。一旦看到错误，我就将这个应聘者除名，”他总结说：“如果他们连这些细节错误都不能避免，我们凭什么相信他们能做好一份工作