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The interview has been going on for about 20 minutes and everything seems to be going well．Then..

The interview has 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 love?”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 who are skilled, enthusiastic and devoted．So these are the qualities that any reasonably intelligent job applicant will try to show no matter what his or her actual feelings are．In response, employers are increasingly using the questions which try and show the applicant’s true personality．The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Kiersey Temperament Sorter．It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems, rather than what they know．This is often called aptitude (天资) test．According to Mark Baldwin of Alliance, many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult．“When a Chinese fills out an aptitude test, he or she will think there is a right answer but they may fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to see．”This is sometimes called the prisoner’s dilemma(窘境)．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 the honest answer．小题1:What is the purpose of the passage? A．To give a piece of advice to job interviewees． B．To tell you how to deal with job interviews． C．To advise you how to find a good job． D．To describe an aptitude test． 小题2:According to the writer, in an aptitude test, Chinese job applicants should ________. A．not tell the truth B．offer a complete answer C．learn to tell what they really think D．find out what the examiner wants to know 小题3:From the passage we know that ________． A．job applicants are always trying to show their actual feelings B．applicants should not act as cleverly as possible C．more Chinese applicants fail to find a job D．aptitude test is becoming world-wide popular

Answer 1

小题1:A 小题2:C 小题3:D

试题分析:在如今的面试中越来越多的出现一些奇怪的问题，这些问题主要用来考查应聘者的内在品质，而不是他们的专业知识和能力。面对这种问题，作者给出的建议是：不要去考虑出题人想要什么样的答案，最好的答案就是诚实的答案。 小题1:A推理判断题。文章首先描述了面试的场景，然后介绍了面试时候可能会出现的情况，也就是aptitude (天资) test，最后提出应对方法Remember that in an aptitude test, the correct answer is the honest answer，由此判断作者的写作目的是给应试者一条建议，选A。 小题2:C细节理解题。文章最后一段作者给出了如何应对这种问题的建议，即：the correct answer is the honest answer，由此可知答案选C。 小题3:D细节理解题。从文章第二段可知在西方国家面试者被问到这种问题的情况越来越多，而且在中国也有着开始的迹象，由此判断D选项正确。