When you are in a place where you are hunting for a new job or career, you will find that there are several
things needing your atten tion. Jobs and careers are fewer than you might entirely be prepared for; especially
when satisfying employment is something you need to seriously think about. How are you going to find the job
that you want and how are you going to avoid traps in your way? When you want to make the most out of your job search, take a moment and think about the things that you must avoid at all costs.
One of the most important rules is, never to compromise on your requirements such that it will negatively
affect your life and peace of mind at a later stage. Keep in mind your basic expectations from a job. It might be
something along the lines of increased monetary pay ment or you might find that it has something to do with
benefits or time off. Whatever it is that you count as your basic requirements, make sure that you do not accept a job without it. Your requirements might be difficult to get, but you have all the rights to try and a chieve them.
That being said, don"t shy away from odd jobs that might actu ally take you to the place that you want to be
in, eventually. Some- times, finding the right job is a matter of luck and chance after you have been searching
and putting in a lot of efforts. And if something unexpected happens, remember that taking chances is something you might want to seriously consider. You are in a place where you are thinking about moving forward, so
don"t be surprised by what route it might take to get there. As long as you keep your goals in mind, you are going to be doing much better than other people are during their job search.
If you are looking for the right career, another thing that you can do to make sure that you get the right kind of employment is to advertise yourself. When you do nothing to push yourself forward, you will be the one
suffering for it. If required, motivate yourself and try to look at all that you possess by way of positive traits.
Make sure that you can present your skills and abilities in the best light possi ble. If the jobs that you have set
your sights on are challenging, set targets for yourself and work towards them in a systematic and fo cused
manner. The more efforts you put into marketing yourself, the better will be your chances of obtaining the job
of your choice.
Remember that when you are working on a job search, you should not shortchange yourself. This is because you will only hurt yourself by aiming low.
What to avoid during your job search |
| Paragraph Outline | Supporting Details | | Brief introduction | ☆You need to know they are fewer than 1. _____
☆You should take the related things into 2. _____ and know what to a- void. | | Detailed information of what to avoid dur ing the job search | ☆Don"t lower standards or it will have a negative 3._____ on your later
life. Accept a job with your basic 4. _____ which might be not easy to
get.
☆ Accept some odd jobs which might help you 5. _your goal. Sometimes, luck and chance may 6. _____ well in your finding the job. You can do better than others if you 7. _____ your goals during the job search.
☆You should make a( n) 8.____for yourself to hunt for the right job. If it is a 9. _____for you to find the job, set your targets and work hard. | | Summary | ☆Low aims may do 10. _____ to your- self, so you shouldn"t shortchange yourself. |
答案
1. expected/prepared 2. consideration 3.effect 4. requirements 5. achieve
6.work 7.remember 8. advertisement 9. challenge 10. harm |
举一反三
| 阅读理解。 | Get Independence by Ourselves
The passage is mainly about a father"s accompanying his son studying at his university. What makes us
puzzled is that his son is a postgraduate. In most people"s opinion, a university student is old e nough to look
after himself.
I can"t understand the father at all. And I am against his idea and action because his son is a postgraduate
and old enough to deal with all the difficulties by himself. All parents should allow their children to face the
reality and win the independence.
I think independence is important for children. After all, we all will grow up and face the reality by
ourselves. Life is really tough and we will face all kinds of difficulties. We must be independent to solve the
problems. So we should develop our independence from young. After all parents can"t accompany us all the
time.
Certainly all children are facing problems and all parents would like to do all for them. But I think children
should get their inde pendence by themselves and only in this way can they face the real- ity on their own.
Reading is very important to help you learn English. To learn as much as you can from reading, you need to
read different kinds of English. This book provides not only different kinds of English but also a good way to
check your reading ability.
There are four parts in the book:
Part 1 is Messages: In this part somebody wants to send infor mation in writing to somebody else.
There is a test on timetables and a test on text messages.
Part 2 is People: In this part all the tests are about people. For example, there is an informal letter between
friends. There is formal (正式的) English in biography (传记). There is a job application as a model to help
with your writing, as well as testing your reading.
Part 3 is Places: In this part, too, many different kinds of Eng- lish are shown, some informal and some
formal. There is the informal English of a holiday postcard. There is also the formal English in a letter of
complaint.
Part 4 is Things: You will find some descriptive writing in this part. There are descriptions of clothes and
of a computer.
You can do these tests in any order you like, or you can do all the tests with a formal or informal text.
I enjoyed writing this book and I hope you enjoy using it. | | 1. We can find the introduction to a product in _____. | A. Part 1
B. Part 2
C. Part 3
D. Part 4 | | 2. Which of the following is most probably written in informal English? | A. A letter of complaint.
B. A computer handbook.
C. A letter to a friend.
D. A story of a president. | | 3. The passage is most probably written for _____. | A. test designers
B. students
C. test-takers
D. teachers | | 4. What is the best title of the book? | A. Test Your Reading
B. Help with Your Writing
C. Learn Different Kinds of English
D. Practise English in Different Ways | | 完形填空。 | A man who knows how to write a personal letter has a very powerful tool. A letter can be enjoyed, read
and 1 . It can set up a warm conversation between two people far apart (远离的); it can keep a 2 with
very little effort.
I will give 3 . A few years ago my older brother and I were not getting 4 . We had been close as 5
but had grown apart. Our meetings were not 6 ; our conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels;
and every effort to clear the air seemed to only 7 our misunderstanding. Then he 8 a small island in the
Caribbean and we 9 touch. One day he wrote me a letter. He described his island and its people, told me
what he was doing, said how he felt, and encouraged me to 10 . Rereading the letter, I was 11 by its humor
and clever expressions. These were all qualities for which I had 12 respected my older brother but 13 he no
longer had them. I had never known he could write so 14 . And with that one letter we became friends 15 .
It might never have occurred to 16 to write me if he had not been in a place where there were no 17 .
For him, writing was a necessity. It also turned out to be the best way for us to get back in touch. Because
we live in an age of 18 communication (通讯), people often 19 that they don"t always have to phone or
email. They have a 20 . And that is to write. | ( )1. A. received
( )2. A. record
( )3. A. an example
( )4. A. through
( )5. A. brothers
( )6. A. normal
( )7. A. deepen
( )8. A. toured
( )9. A. lost
( )10. A. think
( )11. A. driven
( )12. A. never
( )13. A. realized
( )14. A. well
( )15. A. later
( )16. A. us
( )17. A. mail services
( )18. A. poor
( )19. A. believe
( )20. A. habit | B. rewritten
B. promise
B. a lesson
B. together
B. children
B. necessary
B. start
B. stopped over
B. kept in
B. write
B. beaten
B. seldom
B. judged
B. often
B. anyhow
B. anyone else
B. transport services
B. easy
B. decide
B. choice | C. returned
C. friendship
C. an experience
C. along
C. fellows
C. pleasant
C. express
C. reached
C. needed
C. enjoy
C. surprised
C. sometimes
C. thought
C. much
C. too
C. someone
C. phones
C. popular
C. argue
C. method | D. reread
D. secret
D. a talk
D. away
D. classmates
D. possible
D. settle
D. moved to
D. got in
D. read
D. honored
D. once
D. expected
D. soon
D. again
D. my brother
D. relatives
D. busy
D. forget
D. plan | | 阅读理解。 | When I was a child, I often dreamed of the time when I could leave home and escape to the city. We lived
on a farm. In the winter especially, we wear quite out off from the outside world. As soon as I left school, I
packed my bags and moved to the capital. However, I soon discovered that my life has its too.
One big disadvantage is money. It costs so much to go out, not to mention basics like food and housing.
Another disadvantage is pollution. I suffer from asthma (哮喘), and the air is so that I am afraid to go outside.
Then there is the problem of traveling round. Although I have a car, I seldom use it became of the traffic jams.
One choice is to go by bicycle, but that can be quite dangerous.
Of course there are advantages. First, there is so much to do in the city, whatever you tastes in culture or
entertainment (娱乐活动). Besides, there are wonderful jobs and greater chances of moving to a more important
job or position. Finally, if you like shopping, the variety of goods is very surprising-and, what is more, shops
are often only a short walk away.
Is life better then, in the city? Perhaps it is, when you are in your teens (十几岁) or twenties. However, as
you get older, and especially if you have small children, the peace of the countryside may seem preferable. I
certainly hope to move back there soon. | | 1. What was the writer always thinking about when he was a child? | A. Staying on the farm.
B. Moving to the countryside.
C. Leaving home for the city.
D. Running away from the school. | | 2. Which of the following is true about the writer? | A. He is very old now.
B. He is in good health.
C. He prefers driving a car.
D. He lives in the city now. | | 3. In the passage, the writer tries to _____. | A. express his opinions about way of life
B. describe his life in the countryside
C. an interest in the outside world
D. persuade the reader to live in the city | | 4. How is the passage mainly developed? | A. By inferring.
B. By comparing.
C. By listing examples.
D. By giving explanations. | 阅读表达。
阅读下面的短文，请根据短文后的要求答题。（请注意问题后的字数要求） | Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are
happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable occupations. Personal consultants give
them better advice for finding jobs. Even jud ges are softer on attractive defendants (被告).But in the adminis
trative circle, beauty can become a liability.
Although attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the administration ladder, it is harmful
to a woman.
Handsome male administrators were considered to be more honest than plainer men, though effort and
ability were also thought to account for their success.
Attractive female administrators were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones, and very
often their success was be lieved to be connected not to ability but to factors such as luck.
Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attrac tive woman is considered to be more feminine (女性的) and an at- tractive man more masculine (男性的) than the less attractive woman. Thus an attractive
woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but in a traditionally masculine position an attractive
woman appears to lack the "masculine" qualities required.
This is true even in politics." When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women
differently," says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractive- ness on political
candidates. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of
women, in order of attractiveness. Then the students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them. The results showed that
attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had been ranked most attractive
unchangeably received the fewest votes. | 1. What is the main idea of the passage? ( No more than 15 words. )
_______________________________________________________________________________________
2. The underlined word "liability" in Paragraph 1 means___________________. ( No more than 5 words. )
3. According to this passage, In what jobs do attractive women have their advantages?
( No more than 10 words.)
_____________________________________________________________________________________
4. Why did Anne Bowman carry out the study?( No more than 15 words.)
______________________________________________________________________________________
5. What is your idea of being an attractive person?( No more than 20 words.)
______________________________________________________________________________________ | | 阅读理解。 | Being connected to the Internet has become a necessary part of modern life. Some people actually need it
as they cannot do their jobs without it, and others simply feel they need it as they cannot imagine life without it.
To think that something that did not even exist 50 years ago has come to play a crucial role in our lives like
this in just about 15 years makes one wonder-just what will the future bring?
In 2004, a survey was conducted in the US asking a group of technology experts their opinions on the
Internet in the next ten years. 57% of them agreed that virtual classes will be more widely adopted in schools,
allowing students to learn with those at the same level and with interests in the same subjects. It"s quite possible
that, by the year 2030,every child in every school will do all their school- work on their own laptop with all
their textbooks available (现成可使用的) on the Internet. No more heavy books to carry around and no more
pens and paper!
At work, we already use email to deal with people both inside and outside our offices and video
conferencing (电话会议) is occur- ring more frequently. This means that meetings can be held between offices
in different countries without the trouble caused by business travel. Business travel will stop to exist in the
future, and so will offices as people all start to work from home.
It has also become a trend for people to use pocket computers such as Blackberries. With this helpful
equipment, people can send and receive emails, surf the Web, and read multimedia files from absolutely
anywhere even if we are on a beach holiday.
The Internet will have a revolutionary (突破性的) effect on entertainment in the future. Already we can buy
and download music and movies from the Internet but it is still possible for us to buy a CD or go to the DVD
stores to rent the latest movies. However, it"s quite possible that in the future, CD shops and DVD rental stores will close and cinemas will no longer exist. Entertainment will be- come completely virtual although hopefully
people will still want to get outside to play sports and entertain themselves in more healthy ways.
With the Internet we need only relax in the rocking chair. The Internet, however, has problems to be solved. | | 1. The expression " play a crucial role in" can be understood as_____. | A. change a dull role into
B. play an interesting part in
C. act a cruel character in
D. have an important effect on | |
| 2. According to the passage people are satisfied with all the following changes EXCEPT that _____. | A. CD shops and cinemas will shut down as a result of the a doption of virtual entertainment
B. virtual classes can make students" dream of getting rid of their schoolbags come true
C. people can be kept informed anytime and anywhere with the help of convenient equipment
D. people won"t have to make business travel any more thanks to the video conference | | 3. What will the writer probably discuss after the last paragraph? | A. The possible school life in the future.
B. Bad effects the Internet can have on us.
C. More excitements the Internet will bring us.
D. The likely ways to solve the problems. | | 4. What is probably the best title for the passage? | A. Virtual reality, our best friend!
B. Goodbye, textbooks and offices!
C. What will future life be like with the Internet?
D. How can human beings deal with the Internet? | 最新试题
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