Question

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 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 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 Kiersey Personality Sorter．It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems, rather than what they know．This is often called aptitude （能力） testing．
According to Mark Baldwin of Alliance 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 （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 always the honest answer．
【小題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．a(chǎn)dvice you how to find a job

【小題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．

【小題3】According to the writer, in an aptitude testing, Chinese job applicants should___．

A．not tell the truth

B．learn to tell what they really think

C．be more enthusiastic

D．try to find out what the examiner really want to know

【小題4】From the passage we know that____．

A．job applicants are always asked such questions

B．more Chinese applicants fail to find a job

C．a(chǎn)pplicants should not act as reasonably as a prisoner

D．a(chǎn)ptitude testing is becoming popular worldwide

Answer 1

【小題1】A
【小題2】C
【小題3】B
【小題4】D

解析【小題1】主旨題：文章在最后一段點題：Remember that in an aptitude test, the correct answer is always the honest answer．在能力測試中，最正確的答案是誠實的答案。就是給讀者提出建議，應(yīng)該如何去面試。選A。
【小題2】細節(jié)題：文章第二段的句子：It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems, rather than what they know．說明面試官是想發(fā)現(xiàn)應(yīng)聘者的解決問題的能力。C正確。
【小題3】細節(jié)題：從第三段的：Employers want people skilled, enthusiastic and devoted．看出雇主想招有技術(shù)的，熱情的，忠實的人，那做為應(yīng)聘者就應(yīng)該表現(xiàn)出熱情。選B。
【小題4】推理題：從第二段的：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．說明西方的職業(yè)申請者發(fā)現(xiàn)這種奇怪的問題越來越多，同樣的事中國也在發(fā)生。選D。