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Investing thousands of pounds in the recruitment and training of each new
graduate recruit may be just the beginning. Choosing the wrong candidate may
leave an organisation paying for years to come.
Few companies will have escaped all of the following failures: people who
panic at the first sight of stress; those with long impressive qualifications
who seem incapable of learning; hypochondriacs whose absentee record becomes
astonishing; and the unstable person later discovered to be a thief or
worse.
Less dramatic, but just as much a problem, is the person who simply does not
come up to expectations, who does not quite deliver; who never becomes a
high-flier or even a steady performer; the employee with a fine future behind
them.
The first point to bear in mind at the recruitment stage is that people don’t
change. Intelligence levels decline modestly, but change little over their
working life. The same is true of abilities, such as learning languages and
handling numbers.
Most people like to think that personality can change, particularly the more
negative features such as anxiety, low esteem, impulsiveness or a lack of
emotional warmth. But data collected over 50 years gives a clear message: still
stable after all these years. Extroverts become slightly less extroverted; the
acutely shy appear a little less so, but the fundamentals remain much the same.
Personal crises can affect the way we cope with things: we might take up or drop
drink, drugs, religion or relaxation techniques, which can be have pretty
dramatic effects. Skills can be improved, and new ones introduced, but at rather
different rates. People can be groomed for a job. Just as politicians are
carefully repackaged through dress, hairstyle and speech specialists, so people
can be sent on training courses, diplomas or experimental weekends. But there is
a cost to all this which may be more than the price of the course. Better to
select for what you actually see rather than attempt to change it.
( )1. The purpose of this passage is to give managers the advice that .
A. Employers should select candidates for their potential.
B. Employers should select candidates for what they are rather than for their
potential.
C. Employers should select the newly graduated and send them on training
courses, diplomas or experimental weekends.
D. Employers should select experienced candidates to avoid spending thousands
of pounds in training.
( )2. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
.
A. Absolutely, People don’t change during their working lives.
B. Generally, people change to a large extent during their working lives.
C. Fundamentally, people stay the same during their working lives.
D. Normally, people don’t change at all during their working lives.
( )3. What does a fine future behind them (line 3 of paragraph 3) means?
.
A. Some people will certainly have a promising future though they are not
very competent in their present work.
B. Some people don’t have any potential for their work though they are
employed.
C. Some people can have a bright future though they can’t do their work
well.
D. Some people have potential when they are employed, but never realize that
potential.
( )4. According to the passage, people’s basic abilities like language
learning and numeracy .
A. change little over their working life.
B. never change over their working life.
C. change fundamentally over their working life.
D. change profoundly over their working life.
( )5. The word deliver (line 2 of paragraph 3) means .
A. to take goods to the places or people they are addressed to
B. to give a speech
C. to do what you promised to do
D. to help a woman to give birth to a baby.
Part III Cloze
Directions: There are twenty blanks in the following passage. For each blank
there are four choices. Choose the one that best fits into the passage and then
marks your answer on the Answer Sheet.
In 1982, Mark Thatcher, the son of Mrs. Thatcher was reported 61 in the
Sahara Desert while competing in the Grand Prix motor race from Paris to Dakar.
This sad news, so 62 , shook the usually calm and unperturbed seasoned
politician 63 her balance. Though she did her best to pretend as if 64 had
happened and made her public appearances as usual, people could not 65 to notice
that she was no longer the old 66 prime minister who always had everything 67
control. 68 she had become a very sad mother who was unable to recover from her
shock.
One day, when she was to speak at a luncheon party, a reporter caught her 69
her guard by 70 up the subject of her missing son again. She was totally
mentally 71 for the question and lost her self control. Tears were rolling down
her eyes as she sobbingly told the reporter that there 72 still no news of Mark
and that she was very worried about him. She said that all the countries 73 had
promised to do their best to help her find her son. 74 that she broke down
completely and sobbed silently for quite a while. Gradually she 75 down and
started to speak as 76. it was a very moving scene which 77 a new side of Mrs.
Thatcher’s character the public do not usually see, 78 people began to talk
about the Iron Woman’s maternal love, a sentiment that is 79 to all human
kind.
Later Mark returned 80 and sound to his mother’s side, good-humored and all
smiles as usual, as if nothing unusual had ever happened. The Iron Woman,
however, broke down again as was sobbing for the second time.
61. A. missing B. missed C. wanting D. wanted
62. A. expected B. expecting C. unexpected D. unexpecting
63. A. with B. on C. out D. off
64. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything
65. A. miss B. fail C. pretend D. expect
66. A. reassured B. self-assured C. assuring D. self-assuring
67. A. for B. beneath C. below D. under
68. A. Instead B. however C. Therefore D. So
69. A. into B. out of C. on D. off
70. A. putting B. bringing C. taking D. giving
71. A. ready B. prepared C. unprepared D. unexpected
72. A. was B. were C. should be D. would be
73. A. concerning B. concerned C. worrying D. worried
74. A. At B. Before C. After D. With
75. A. sat B. broke C. calmed D. became
76. A. planned B. planning C. plans D. a plan
77. A. explained B. exposed C. excluded D. exclaimed
78. A. however B. instead C. so D. but
79. A. universal B. unique C. single D. strange
80. A. safe B. safely C. sight D. hearing
