4年考研英语I阅读+答案解秘版2004到2007年.pdf

2004 年Text 1Hunting for a job late last year,lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled acrossCareerBuilder,a job database on the Internet.He searched it with nosuccess but was attracted by the sites personal search agent”.Its aninteractive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location,title,and salary,then E-mails them when a matching position is posted inthe database.Redmon chose the keywords legal,intellectual property andWashington,D.C.T hree weeks later,he got his first notification of anopening.I struck gold,says Redmon,who E-mailed his resume to theemployer and won a position as in-house counsel for a company.With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet,findingpromising openings can he time-consuming and inefficient.Search agentsreduce the need for repeated visits to the databases.But although a searchagent worked for Redmon,career experts see drawbacks.Narrowing yourcriteria,for example,may work against you:Every time you answer aquestion you eliminate a possibility,says one expert.For any job search,you should start with a narrow concept-what youthink you want to do-then broaden it.None of these programs do that,says another expert.T heres no career counseling implicit in all of this.Instead,the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip service tokeep abreast of jobs in a particular database;when you get E-mail,consider it a reminder to check the database again.I would not rely onagents for finding everything that is added to a database that mightinterest me,“says the author of a job-searching guide.Some sites design their agents to tempt job hunters to return.WhenCareerSites agent sends out messages to those who have signed up for itsservice,for example,it includes only three potential jobsthose itconsiders the best matches.T here may be more matches in the database;job hunters will have to visit the site again to find them-and they do.“On the day after we send our messages,we see a sharp increase in ourtraffic,5 says Seth Peets,vice president of marketing for Careersite.Even those who arent hunting for jobs may find search agentsworthwhile.Some use them to keep a close watch on the demand for theirline of work or gather information on compensation to arm themselveswhen negotiating for a raise.Although happily employed,Redmonmaintains his agent at CareerBuilder.t4You always keep your eyes open,he says.Working with a personal search agent means having another setof eyes looking out for you.21.How did Redmon find his job?A By searching openings in a job database.B By posting a matching position in a database.C By using a special service of a database.D By E-mailing his resume to a database.22.Which of the following can be a disadvantage of search agents?A Lack of counseling.B Limited number of visits.C Lower efficiency.D Fewer successful matches.23.T he expression“tip service(Line 4,Paragraph 3)most probablymeans.A advisory.B compensation.C interaction.D reminder.24.Why does CareerSites agent offer each job hunter only three joboptions?A T o focus on better job matches.B T o attract more returning visits.C T o reserve space for more messages.D T o increase the rate of success.25.Which of the following is true according to the text?A Personal search agents are indispensable to job-hunters.B Some sites keep E-mailing job seekers to trace their demands.C Personal search agents are also helpful to those already employed.D Some agents stop sending information to people once they areemployed.Text 2Over the past century,all kinds of unfairness and discrimination havebeen condemned or made illegal.But one insidious form continues tothrive:alphabetism.T his,for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage,refers to discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letterin the lower half of the alphabet.It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a bigadvantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phonedirectories.Less well known is the advantage that Adam Abbott has inlife over Zoe Zysman.English names are fairly evenly spread betweenthe halves of the alphabet.Yet a suspiciously large number of top peoplehave surnames beginning with letters between A and K.T hus the American president and vice-president have surnamesstarting with B and C respectively;and 26 of George Bushs predecessors(including his father)had surnames in the first half of the alphabet againstjust 16 in the second half.Even more striking,six of the seven heads ofgovernment of the G7 rich countries are alphabetically advantaged(Berlusconi,Blair,Bush,Chirac,Chretien and Koizumi).T he worldsthree top central bankers(Greenspan,Duisenberg and Hayami)are allclose to the top of the alphabet,even if one of them really uses Japanesecharacters.As are the worlds five richest men(Gates,Buffett,Allen,Ellison and Albrecht).Can this merely be coincidence?One theory,dreamt up in all thespare time enjoyed by the alphabetically disadvantaged,is that the rot setsin early.At the start of the first yea。