考博英语模拟题2018年(27)
(总分100, 做题时间90分钟)
Reading Comprehension
Text 1
Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across Career Builder, a job databa on the Internet. He arched it with no success but was attracted by the site"s "personal arch agent". It"s an interactive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, title, and salary, then e-mail them when a matching position is posted in the databa. Redmon cho the key words legal, intellectual property, and Washington, D. C. Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening. "I struck gold," says Redmon, who e-mailed his resume to the employer and won a position as in-hou counl for a company.
With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time consuming and inefficient. Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databas. But although a arch agent worked for Redmon, career experts e drawbacks. Narrowing your criteria, for example, may work against you, "Every time you answer a question, you eliminate a possibility," says one expert.
For any job arch, you should start with a narrow concept what you think you want to do—then broaden it. "None of the programs do that," says another expert. "There"s no career counling implicit in all of this." Instead, the best strategy is to u the agent as a kind of tip rvice to keep abreast of jobs in a particular databa; when you get an e-mail, consider it a reminder to check the databa again. "I would not rely on agents for finding everything that is added to a databa that might interest me," says the author of a job-arching guide.
understand是什么意思Some sites design their agents to tempt job hunters to return. When Career Site"s agent nds out messages to tho who have signed up for its rvice, for example, it includes only three potential jobs—tho it considers the best matches. There may be more match
es in the databa; job hunters will have to visit the site again to find them—and they do. "On the day after we nd our messages, we e a sharp increa in our traffic," says Seth Peets, vice president of marketing for Career Site.
Even tho who aren"t hunting for jobs may find arch agents worthwhile. Some u them to keep a clo watch on the demand for their line of work or gather information on compensation to arm themlves when negotiating for a rai. Although happily employed, Redmon maintains his agent at Career Builder. "You always keep your eyes open," he says. Working with a personal arch agent means having another t of eyes looking out for you.
1.
How did Redmon find his job?
A By arching openings in a job databa.
B By posting a matching position in a databa.
C By using a special rvice of a databa.
D By e-mailing his resume to a databa.
2.
Which of the following can be a disadvantage of arch agents?
A Lack of counling.
B Limited number of visits.
C Lower efficiency.cheek
D Fewer successful matches.
3.
The expression "tip rvice" (Line 4, Para. 3) most probably means ______.
A advisory
B compensation
深圳瑞得福国际学校C interaction
D reminder
4.
Why does Career Site"s agent offer each job hunter only three job options?
A To focus on better job matches.
B To attract more returning visits.
C To rerve space for more messages.
D To increa the rate of success.
5.
Which of the following is true according to the text?
A Personal arch agents are indispensable to job-hunters.
B Some sites keep e-mailing job ekers to trace their demands.
C Personal arch agents are also helpful to tho already employed.
D Some agents stop nding information to people once they are employed.
timevText 2
Over the past century, all kinds of unfairness and discrimination have been condemned or made illegal. But one insidious form continues to thrive: alphabetism. This, for tho as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against tho who surnames begin with a letter in the lower half of the alphabet.
It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories. Less well known is the advantage that Adam Abbott has in life over Zoe Zysman. English names are fairly evenly spread between the halves of the alphabet. Yet a suspiciously large number of top people have surnames beginning with letters between A and K.
Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush"s predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the cond half. Even more striking, six of the ven heads of government of the G7 rich countries are alphabetically advantaged (Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chretien and Koizumi). The world"s three top central bankers (Greenspan, Duinberg and Hayami) are all clo to the top of the alphabet, ev
en if one of them really us Japane characters. As are the world"s five richest men (Gates, Buffett, Allen, Ellison and Albrecht).
Can this merely be coincidence? One theory, dreamt up in all the spare time enjoyed by the alphabetically disadvantaged, is that the ret ts in early. At the start of the first year in infant school, teachers at pupils alphabetically from the front, to make it easier to remember their names. So shortsighted Zysman junior gets stuck in the back row, and is rarely asked the improving questions pod by tho innsitive teachers. At the time the alphabetically disadvantaged may think they have had a lucky escape. Yet the result may be wor qualifications, becau they get less individual attention, as well as less confidence in speaking publicly.
The humiliation continues. At university graduation ceremonies, the ABCs proudly get their awards first; by the time they reach the Zysmans most people are literally having a ZZZ. Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lo interest as they plough through them.
1.
What does the author intend to illustrate with AAAA cars and Zodiac cars?
A A kind of overlooked inequality.normalize
专四作文模板B A type of conspicuous bias.
C A type of personal prejudice.
D A kind of brand discrimination.
2.
What can we infer from the first three paragraphs?
teenie>healthy是什么意思A In both East and West, names are esntial to success.
B The alphabet is to blame for the failure ofZoe Zysman.
C Customers often pay a lot of attention to companies" names.
D Some form of discrimination is too subtle to recognize.
3.
The 4th paragraph suggests that ______.
A questions are often put to the more intelligent students
B alphabetically disadvantaged students often escape from class
C teachers should pay attention to all of their students
D students should be ated according to their eyesight
4.
What does the author mean by "most people are literally having a ZZZ" (Line 2, Para.5)?
A They are getting impatient.
B They are noisily dozing off.
C They are feeling humiliated.
D They are busy with word puzzles.
5.
Which of the following is true according to the text?
A People with surnames beginning with N to Z are often ill-treated.
B VIPs in the Western world gain a great deal from alphabetism.
C The campaign to eliminate alphabetism still has a long way to go.
D Putting things alphabetically may lead to unintentional bias.
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sarah怎么读英语When it comes to the slowing economy, Ellen Spero isn"t biting her nails just yet. But the 47-year-old manicurist isn"t cutting, filing or polishing as many nails as she"d like to, either. Most of her clients spend $12 to $ 50 weekly, but last month two longtime customers suddenly stopped showing up. Spero blames the softening economy. "I"m a good economic indicator," she says. "I provide a rvice that people can do without when they"re concerned about saving some dollars." So Spero is downscaling, shopping at middle-brow Dillard"s department store near her suburban Cleveland home, instead of Neiman Marcus. "I don"t know if other clients are going to abandon me, too," she says.
Even before Alan Greenspan"s admission that America"s red-hot economy is cooling, lots of working folks had already en signs of the slowdown themlves. From car dealerships to Gap outlets, sales have been lagging for months as shoppers temper their
spending. For retailers, who last year took in 24 percent of their revenue between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the cautious approach is coming at a crucial time. Already, experts say, holiday sales are off 7 percent from last year"s pace. But don"t sound any alarms just yet. Consumers em only mildly concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain optimistic about the economy"s long-term prospects even as they do some modest belt-tightening.
Consumers say they"re not in despair becau, despite the dreadful headlines, their own fortunes still feel pretty good. Home prices are holding steady in most regions. In Manhattan, "There"s a new gold rush happening in the $4 million to $10 million range, predominantly fed by Wall Street bonus," says broker Barbara Corcoran. In San Francisco, prices are still rising even as frenzied overbidding quiets. "Instead of 20 to 30 offers, now maybe you only get two or three," says John Tealdi, a Bay Area real-estate broker. And most folks still feel **fortable about their ability to find and keep a job.
Many folks e silver linings to this slowdown. Potential home buyers would cheer for lower interest rates. Employers wouldn"t mind a little fewer bubbles in the job market. Ma
ny consumers em to have been influenced by stock-market swings, which investors now view as a necessary ingredient to a sustained boom. Diners might e an upside, too. Getting a table at Manhattan"s hot new Alain Ducas restaurant ud to be impossible. Not anymore. For that, Greenspan & Co. may still be worth toasting.
