10、If you're like most job seekers, the hiring process can sometimes make you scratch your head in confusion. For example, how many times have you come across the "perfect" position, quickly submitted your résumé（简历 ） and eagerly anticipated the hiring manager's call... only to hear nothing from the company?

It's important to know the two questions hiring managers ask themselves when evaluating résumé. By understanding potential employers' thought processes, you can craft stronger application materials.

1．Can the applicant fill my need?

After all, a firm looking to hire a computer programmer isn't going to call you for an interview if you only have a background in human resources. But even if you possess the necessary experience, if your résumé isn't targeted to the specific company and opening, your qualifications could seem equally unrelated.

Tailoring your résumé to the position involves positioning your skills and experience in a way that shows the hiring manager that you are the right one for the job. So you should look at each opening and create a corresponding résumé.

2．Will the applicant remain with my firm for the long term?

The hiring process is lengthy, complicated and expensive. Because of that, hiring managers seek employees who are not likely to leave the company soon after accepting an offer. They'll look to your résumé for proof of a stable work history.

If you have job-hopped in the past, consider submitting a functional, rather than a chronological (按时间顺序排列的) résumé. A functional résumé is organized around your skills, experiences and accomplishments, not the specific roles you have held at various points in your career.

    Remember: a well-written, targeted résumé gives you the best chance of being called for an interview and, ultimately, landing the position you desire.

 

(1)、The purpose of the article is to ______.

 

A：show job seekers the difficulty of getting a good job

B：show job seekers the difficulty of writing a good résumé

C：show the hiring process is lengthy and complicated

D：show job seekers how to write a well-written, targeted résumé

答案：D

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(2)、When hiring managers are evaluating applicants, they attach importance to ______.

 

A：the needed qualifications and the devotion to the same company

B：the education background and the personality

C：the teamwork spirit and the needed qualifications

D：the previous job experience and the devotion to the same company

答案：A

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(3)、If you are applying for different jobs, ______.

 

 

A：you should submit the same résumé

B：you should design a customizeddi（定做的） résumé for each job

C：you should include your skills and experiences in the résumé

D：you should know the questions that the hiring manager might ask you

答案：B

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(4)、A functional résumé ______.

 

 

A：is similar to a chronological résumé

B：can be as good as a chronological résumé

C：is organized around the different roles in one's career

D：centers on the applicant's skills, experiences and accomplishments

答案：D

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(5)、The advantage of a functional résumé is that ______.

 

 

A：it is more convincing and impressive

B：it can be accepted more easily by the hiring manager

C：it avoids mentioning the job-hopping in the past

D：it can provide proof of a stable work history

答案：C

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11、No one's ability to remember names is perfect. Yet this important skill gives you the advantage in business and personal relations. "A person's own name is the sweetest and most important sound." Dale Carnegie wrote in How to Win Friends and Influence People. It is often the ticket to a friendship, a closed deal or a new partnership, and it generates instant good will in a way no other courtesy can.

Peter Dupre, a Boston restaurateur, also makes it a point to remember names. When one of his regular customers introduced him to a friend named Connie recently, he made sure to thank her by name as she left the restaurant. "From the pleasantly shocked look on her face, I could tell not only that she would be back, but that she would bring in new customers," the restaurateur said. "Remembering one person's name in my business can get me 100 new patrons."

Forgetting someone's name, on the other hand, can cause hurt feelings and make you feel socially inept and uncomfortable. Even worse, it can create a powerfully negative first impression that works against you long afterward.

I was once a consultant to a company considering which of three senior executives to be promoted to be president. As I toured a production area with one of the candidates - a very bright and qualified man - I was surprised that he knew the names of very few employees under him. He greeted workers vaguely with "How's it going?" and substituted "son" or "kiddo" for the person's name. Since the job of company president involved considerable social interaction with a broad range of people, I noted this in my report. He didn't get the job.

 I have found that memory lapses（失误） often boil down to a question of concentration. Generally, we store important information in long-term memory and hold less-meaningful data in short-term memory. The challenge is to take the commonplace - like "that man's name" - and somehow make it significant so it gets deposited in long-term memory.

 

 

(1)、Remembering others' names is an important skill because ______.

A：it enables you to make more friends

B：it helps you close deals in business

C：it brings you new partners

D：all of the above

答案：D

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(2)、After Peter Dupre thanked his new customer Connie by name, ______.

A：Connie explained she was a regular customer indeed

B：Connie pretended to be pleasantly shocked

C：he knew Connie would return and bring more customers later

D：he knew Connie made a point of remembering others' names

答案：C

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(3)、What is one possible result of forgetting someone's name? 

A：You are more popular with other people.

B：You are given advantage in business and personal relations.

C：You may give the other person a powerfully negative first impression.

D：You will hurt no one's feelings.

答案：C

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(4)、In the last line of paragraph 4, "this" refers to ______. 

 

 

A："his gift for speech"

B："his failure to greet people under him by their names"

C："his chance of being promoted to be president"

D："social interaction"

答案：B

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(5)、Memory lapses usually take place when ______.

 

A：one doesn't focus on things

B：one fails to distinguish important information from less-meaningful data

C：one stores important information in long-term memory

D：one finds it necessary to remember others' names

答案：A

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12、The skill in being a student consists in getting one's daily study as near the optimum（最佳的） point as possible. I cannot tell you what the optimum is. It differs with the type of work, it differs from person to person, and even in the same person it varies from week to week. You must try to find your own. Every day you study, bear this principle of the optimum in mind. When you feel yourself getting fatigued, if you find yourself repeatedly reading over the same paragraph and not  taking it in, that's a pretty good sign you've reached the crest（最高点） for the day and should stop.

  Most ordinary students find their optimum at about five hours a day. Yours may be a little more or a little less - but if you get in five hours' good work a day, you will be doing well.

    Now, what are you doing with yourself when you aren't working? Before examinations some students do nothing at all except sit in a chair and worry. This is a misunderstanding. People too easily think of the mind as if it worked like the body; it does not. If one wanted to conserve physical energy to cut the maximum amount of firewood, one would lie flat on a bed and rest when one wasn't chopping. But the mind cannot rest. Even in sleep you dream, even if you forget your dreams. The mind is always turning. It gets its relaxation only by variety. That is what makes mental rest. So when you've reached your optimum point you must stop. You must go out and do something. It doesn't matter what - anything so long as you are actively doing something else but work.

 

(1)、For a student who wants to be an efficient learner, it's useful to ______.

A：spend as much time as possible on study every day

B：make good use of the spare time

C：get his study as near the optimum point as possible

D：strike a balance between work and play

答案：C

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(2)、______ is a good sign that a students has reached the crest for the day.

 

A：Having trouble sleeping

B：Reading without absorbing the material

C：Getting tired of one's reading assignment

D：Feeling unable to follow the teacher

答案：B

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(3)、People's misunderstanding about the mind is that ______.

A：the mind works the same way as the body

B：the mind doesn't need to have a rest

C：having a good rest will do harm to the mind

D：a healthy body results from a healthy mind

答案：A

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(4)、The body is different from the mind because ______.  

A：it needs rest to regain energy

B：performing different tasks can help the body regain energy

C：it has the energy optimum point

D：being tired will affect its performance

答案：A

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(5)、The best way to relax the mind after study is to ______.

 

A：go to bed and have a good sleep

B：go over the lesson one has learned

C：refer to the notebook again and again for better understanding

D：try something different in an active way

答案：D

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