1 . 请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填人一个最恰当的单词。
注意:每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

How many cabs in New York City? How many tears in a bottle of wine? These aren’t just the lyrics (歌词)to a song by the Australian musician Paul Kelly. They are the kind of questions you are likely to be asked during a job interview.

In recent years, it has become common for bosses to ask interview questions that are impossible to answer. There is no right answer to these “brainteasers”. Instead, they are supposed to help an interviewer calculate an applicant’s ability to reason. What matters is how you come to the conclusion, not what conclusion you arrive at.

Brainteasers started out in management consultancy firms. Young graduates hoping to join the company would be asked: “How many phone booths are there in Manhattan?” They weren ’ t expected to blurt out (脱 口说出)a random number — instead, they were expected to show they could solve even the most stupid problem.

As consultants swarmed across other organizations, they bought their inscrutable (难 以理解的)questions with them. Now, people applying for a job in a call centre can expect to be asked how a nuclear power plant works.

While many bosses have great confidence in how good or effective brainteasers are, a research paper published in the journal Applied Psychology found they are useless for spotting the best candidate for the job. What they are great for is to make employers feel like intellectual giants.

The study’s findings are not surprising. Studies have repeatedly found that most methods of selecting job candidates are hopelessly flawed (有缺点的).Job interviews are among the worst way of picking the right person for the job.

The results of this research raise the question: if interviews are bad at picking the right person for the job, what are they there for? One feeling I have is that many job selection processes are thinly disguised (伪装的)forms of suffering, designed to make applicants feel worthless and boost the confidence of the person asking the question.

Think about the extensive list of personal skills required for even the most lowly entry-level job. Or those painful assessment centres where you are supposed to play nice with people you are competing against to get the job. And then there are the firms that ask applicants to make a presentation to convey how awesome the firms are. All these exercises seem designed not to get the best person for the role, but to assure the boss how great they are, and remind you just how lucky you would be to get this boring job.

Passage outline	Supporting details
Introduction to brainteasers	They are widely used in job interviews and the answers are     1     to interpretation. They focus more on an applicant’s    2     skills rather than the outcomes.
3     and popularity of brainteasers	They started out in management consultancy firms and spread to other organizations. Nowadays，a job applicant is often asked questions     4     to the job he applies for.
Research findings	5     to popular belief of the bosses, brainteasers are actually useless for selecting candidates. They are just meant to show off the     6     of the employers.
In—depth Analysis	Many job selection processes make job applicants have a poor     7     of themselves and the employers more confident. Some job applicants are asked to show skills, some of which are     8     the requirements of a certain occupation. In some assessment centres, job applicants are required to play nice with their     9    . Some job applicants are supposed to make a presentation to     10     the firms.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the woman want to be?

A．A doctor.

B．A teacher.

C．An engineer.

2. Who does the man admire most?

A．His brother.

B．His father.

C．His grandfather.

3. Which place would the man love to travel to?

A．Asia.

B．Europe.

C．North America.

4. What will the woman do this summer?

A．Find a job.

B．Go on a trip.

C．Take extra classes.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A．Interviewer and interviewee.

B．Boss and clerk.

C．Fellow workers.

2. Where has the woman been working?

A．In a library.

B．In a small bookshop.

C．In a branch of a big company.

3. What does the woman say about Raystone's?

A．It is independent.

B．It is growing quickly.

C．It offers good online service.

4. How would the woman describe herself?

A．Ambitious.

B．Successful.

C．Reliable.

4 . What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．Which orders are urgent.

B．How many orders they've packed.

C．Whether to leave work right now.

5 . Why does the man want to find another job?

A．He is tired of the present job.

B．He wants to work more hours.

C．He can’t balance his present job and study.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the relationship between the speakers?

A．Teacher and student.

B．Interviewer and interviewee.

C．Colleagues.

2. Where is the woman now?

A．In Japan.

B．In America.

C．In Britain.

3. What is the woman weak in?

A．Computers.

B．Languages.

C．Organizing activities.

7 . What does Nick do?

A．A website designer.

B．A computer salesman.

C．A school teacher.

8 . What are the speakers talking about?

A．A restaurant.

B．The man’s job.

C．The man’s pay.

9 . It was graduation day at Etihad Training Academy, where the national airline of the United Arab Emirates holds a seven-week training course for new flight attendants.

Despite her obvious pride, Ms. Fathi, a 22-year-old from Egypt, was amazed to find herself here. “I never in my life thought I’d work abroad,” said Ms. Fathi, who was a university student in Cairo when she began noticing newspaper advertisements employing young Egyptians to work at airlines based in the Persian Gulf.

Twenty years ago, unmarried Arab women like Ms. Fathi, working outside their home countries, were rare. But just as young men from poor Arab nations poured into the oil-rich Persian Gulf states for jobs, more young women are doing so.

Flight attendants have become the public face of the new mobility for some young Arab women, just as they were the face of new freedoms for women in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. They have become a subject of social anxiety and fascination in much the same way.

For many families, allowing a daughter to work may call her virtue into question. Yet this culture is changing, said Musa Shteiwi, a sociologist at Jordan University in Amman. “We’re noticing more and more single women going to the gulf these days,” he said. “It’s still not exactly common, but over the last four or five years it’s become quite an observable phenomenon.”

Many of the young Arab women working in the Persian Gulf take delight in their status as pioneers, role models for their friends and younger female relatives. Young women brought up in a culture that highly values community, have learned to see themselves as individuals. The experience of living independently and working hard for high salaries has forever changed their beliefs about themselves, though it can also lead to a painful sense of separation from their home countries and their families.

—From New York Times (December 22, 2014)

1. It can be inferred from the passage that young Arab women _________.

A．go to work abroad after American women’s example

B．didn’t start to work abroad until the late 20thcentury

C．are commonly used to living and working separately

D．expect to take the same family responsibilities as men

2. According to the passage, the Arab women flight attendants can be described as _________.

A．proud, homesick or independent	B．honest, outstanding or optimistic
C．mature, enthusiastic or energetic	D．painful, desperate or conservative

3. How do the public respond to young Arab women’s new mobility?

A．The public think highly of it.	B．The public care very little about it.
C．The public show both interest and anxiety.	D．The public are strongly against it.

4. The author intends to tell the readers that __________.

A．Arab women can hardly find any work	B．flight attendants are badly needed in the gulf
C．flight attendants lead quite a different life	D．young Arab women’s values are changing

10 . 请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在表格中的横线上填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意：请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填1个单词。

The GREATEST Journey

I had lunch last week with a high-ranking business woman for a fortune 500 company. I asked her what tips she would give to someone early in their career. Without hesitation she jumped right into four keys to her professional climb:
Know your business. Never get satisfaction with your industry or your position. In most cases, the knowledge you hold now is not good enough to stand the test of time. Thus, you must keep working to stay on top of what’s new and what’s coming down the pipeline. This is what really counts, especially early in a professional career, as many entry level associates are content to be gainfully employed.
Pick careers with care. Again, early in your career it is easy to run after the job that offers the most money. In the case of a life-long career money cannot answer all things. If you are going to be an entrepreneur then you’ll probably start with a budget of zero. Yet, if you have the discipline, working for yourself could be the best choice you’ve ever made.
If you are going to work for a company you have to do your homework. If you find a company that consists with your values and produces a product that you 100% believe in, then you’ll have an easy time giving that organization your all.
Be personable. If everyone hates to be around you at the office, it’s time to check your attitude. We’ve all heard at least one anecdote about a great thinker with great skills who drove coworkers crazy. Someway, somehow many of the brightest and best lack the “people skills” to advance beyond an entry-level position.
In short, you must have the interpersonal insight to interact with internal and external contacts. If not, you may find that you are unimportant once someone with soft-skills joins the organization. Why? People have to buy you before they ever buy the product you’re selling.
Be willing to move. This is where I got puzzled. She shared how she lived in seven states still working for the same organization.
Much is made of moving in today’s attempts to climb the corporate ladder. As more and more companies extend to have a global reach, it is easy to understand why new opportunities birth in various locations.
Whatever the path, outline in your heart what destination you hope to reach and this will be a key indicator as to which journey will be greatest for you.
Title: The Greatest Journey

Passage Outlines	Supporting Details
Information about a business woman	●She held a high     1     in a fortune 500 company. ●She worked for the same organization     2     the fact that she lived in seven states.
3     on professional climb	Know your business ●Don’t fix eyes on the financial     4     in the initial stage. ●Be modest about your performance in the position, for you need to better your knowledge so as not to lag behind.
	Pick careers     5     ●Don’t run after well-paying jobs early in your career. ●Work in an ideal company and you are willing to be     6     to that organization.
	Be personable ●    7     driving coworkers crazy for lack of social skills. ●Try to     8     others both internally and externally so that no one can shake your foundations in the organization.
	Be willing to move ●As an increasing number of companies     9     their business globally, new opportunities arise accordingly.
Conclusion	●With your dreaming destination     10     in mind, you will be navigated through the greatest journey.