Question

Have you ever picked a job based on the fact that you were good at it but later found it made you feel very uncomfortable over time? When you select your career, there's a whole lot more to it than assessing your skills and matching them with a particular position. If you ignore your personality, it will hurt you long-term regardless of your skills or the job’s pay. There are several areas of your personality that you need to consider to help you find a good job. Here are a few of those main areas;  

1) Do you prefer working alone or with other people?

There are isolating jobs that will drive an outgoing person crazy and also interactive jobs that will make a shy person uneasy. Most people are not extremes in either direction but do have a tendency that they prefer. There are also positions that are sometimes a combination of the two, which may be best for someone in the middle who adapts easily to either situation.

2) How do you handle change?

Most jobs these days have some elements of change to them, but some are more than others. If you need stability in your life, you may need a job where the changes don’t happen so often. Other people would be bored of the same daily routine.

3) Do you enjoy working with computers？

I do see this as a kind of personality characteristic. There are people who are happy to spend more than 40 hours a week on a computer, while there are others who need a lot of human interaction throughout the day. Again, these are extremes and you'll likely find a lot of positions somewhere in the middle as well.

4) What type of work environment do you enjoy？

This can range from being in a large building with a lot of people you won’t know immediately to a smaller setting where you'll get to know almost all the people there fairly quickly.

5) How do you like to get paid?

Some people are motivated by the pay they get, while others feel too stressed to be like that. The variety of payment designs in the sales industry is a typical example for this.

Anyway, these are a great starting point for you. I've seen it over and over again with people that they make more money over time when they do something they love. It may take you a little longer, but making a move to do what you have a passion for can change the course of your life for the better.

1.What is unnecessary in your job hunting?

A．Assessing your skills

B．Taking your personality into consideration

C．Matching your skills with a position

D．Going to different areas

2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Isolating usually drive people mad.       

B. Interactive jobs make people shy easily.

C. Extreme people tend to work with others.

D. Almost everyone has a tendency in jobs.

3.The underlined word “stability” in the passage most probably means?

A.no anger.                 B.  no movement.             C. gentleness.             D. enthusiasm.

4. What could be the best title for this passage?

A. Lifestyles and Job Pay                               B. Personalities and Jobs

C. Job Skills and Abilities                                D. Jobs and Environment

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D

2.B

3.Ｂ

4.B

【解析】

試題解析：本文敘述的是人的個性與工作，說明了一個人要找到一份好工作需要考慮自己的個性特點的幾個方面。

1.細節理解題.根據第一段最后一句話There are several areas of your personality that you need to consider to help you find a good job.為了幫助你找到好工作有你的個性的幾個方面需要考慮，所以D正確。  

2.細節理解題。根據第二段第一句There are isolating jobs that will drive an outgoing person crazy and also interactive jobs that will make a shy person uneasy可以判斷出A不對而Ｂ正確。，第二句話Most people are not extremes in either direction but do have a tendency that they prefer.可以判斷出D不對，根據第四段There are people who are happy to spend more than 40 hours a week on a computer, while there are others who need a lot of human interaction throughout the day. Again, these are extremes可以判斷出C不對，所以Ｂ正確

3.詞義猜測題。根據第三段If you need stability in your life, you may need a job where the changes don’t happen so often.，主句你可能需要一份不是經常變化的工作，可以判斷出主句是你需要你的生活穩定，所以Ｂ正確。

4.細節理解題。本文第一段為點題段，根據第一段最后There are several areas of your personality that you need to consider to help you find a good job. Here are a few of those main areas，可以判斷出Ｂ正確。  

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