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"Resumes arrive with stains. Some candidates don't bother to spell the company's name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate," Crossley concludes. "If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job?"
Can we pay too much attention to details? Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. "To keep from losing the forest for the trees, "says Charles Garfield, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco," we must constantly ask ourselves how the details we're working on fit into the larger picture. If they don't, we should drop them and move to something else."
Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. "The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off-course 90 percent of the time," says Garfield, "but a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary. "Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.
Too often we believe what accounts for others' success is some special secret or a lucky break. But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.
According to the passage ,some job applicants were rejected ______.
A.because of their inadequate attention paid to details, such as the stains and misspelt company name
B.because of their inadequate education as shown in their poor spelling in writing a resume
C.because they failed to give a detailed description of their background in their applications
D.because they eliminated their names from the applicants list themselves
Where do these ideas come from? Max Luscher from the University of Geneva believes that in the beginning life was dictated by two factors beyond our control: night and day. Night brought passivity, and a general slowing down of metabolism; day brought with it the possibility of action, and increased in the metabolic rate, thus providing us with energy and initiative. Dark blue, therefore, is the color of quietness and passivity, bright yellow the color of hope and activity.
In prehistoric times, activity as a rule took one of two forms: either we were hunting and at- tacking, or we were being hunted and defending ourselves against attack. Attack is universally re- presented by the color red; serf-preservation by its complement green.
In Luseher's view, the association of colors with feeling and attitudes can be traced back to______.
A.the association of day and night with passivity and action in ancient time
B.the association of black with funerals in western Europe
C.the association of white with purity in some countries
D.the association of red with joy in China
Now read the passageand decide if the following statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). THE WINNER OF A TEACHING AWARD We are pleased to announce that the winner of this year's Teaching Award goes to Dr. Marie Dagenais. Dr. Dagenai graduated from Université de Montreal in 198
3. She became an Assistant Professor in the Faculty in 1988. In 2000 she was appointed as Associate Dean, a very important role in the Faculty. In 2001 she was appointed to Associate Professor and was Professor five years later. For many years she has held important roles in the Association of Teaching and Learning, including being President of this Association in 2005-06. Similarly she has been heavily involved with the American Association of Distance Education and was that Association's President during 2008-1
1. She has also held a number of leadership roles in the Commission on Lifelong Education of America, one of the most important organizations in adult education. This is an incomplete list of some of the countless important roles Dagenai has had both within the University and beyond in the field of distance education in America. She is a very worthy winner of the year's Teaching Award.
1.Marie is the winner of this year's Teaching Award.()
2.Marie graduated from Yale University in 1983.()
3. Marie was appointed to Professor in 2006.()
4.Marie was the president of American Association of Distance Education during 2009-11.()
5. Marie has done a great contribution to American distance education.()
听力原文:M: Do you keep the transferred amount in a special account that I can't control?
W: Yes, we keep those balances in a tax accrual trust account specifically reserved for tax payments. Usually the balances will be used every quarter for tax liability payments.
Q: How often will the balance be used for tax liability payments?
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A.Every month.
B.Every quarter.
C.Every year.
D.Half a year.
Informal rules, often called "manners", describe correct and incorrect behavior. in such situations as eating in a restaurant, going on a date, or working in an office. If one is impolite or misbehaves in these situations, other people often consider offender insensitive. And although we can strongly disagree to such misconduct, we can no legally punish someone for simply being inconsiderate or unpleasant.
Neither laws nor manners are inflexible; both changes as society develops. For example, in the early twentieth century, the selling of strong spirits was forbidden. This law, however, had to be changed because the government found it impossible to force people to drink only soft drinks. More recently, many people who were dissatisfied with the unequals between the rights of men and women worked to pass the equal rights law, as women became more independent and took on new roles, a new law was considered necessary to reflect that change.
According to the passage, people who offended the law may be ______.
A.put to death
B.put on afire
C.doing fine
D.put into prison
W: But I' ve been trying to find a new job in another company. You see, I' ve worked here for 3 years without a raise. That' s unfair to me.
Q: What does the woman mean?
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A.She doesn't have a fax machine.
B.She may quit her present job soon.
C.She is tired of her present job.
D.Her phone number has changed.
Traveling can be fun and easy. A vacation trip to another country is especially 【21】______ when the traveling conditions are good. Good traveling conditions 【22】______ a comfortable mode of transportation, knowledge of the 【23】______ language, familiarity 【24】______ the custom and habits of the people in the country, and pleasant traveling 【25】______ . All of us have had nice trips 【26】______ this.
Most of us have also had trips that we would 【27】______ to forget. Many conditions can produce a bad 【28】______ experience. For example, if the four conditions 【29】______ above do not exist, we will probably have a bad experience, 【30】______ at best difficult 【31】______ . Students who travel to a 【32】______ country to study often have a difficult trip. They usually travel 【33】______ . They don't know the language of the new country 【34】______ . They often arrive in the new country 【35】______ a judge international airport. From the airport, they need to 【36】______ their way to their school. Maybe they need to 【37】______ airplanes, to take a bus, a train, or a taxi. They need to do ail this in a country 【38】______ everything is unfamiliar. Later, after the experience is 【39】______ , they can laugh. But at the 【40】______ , they feel terrible.
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A.happy
B.enjoyable
C.amusing
D.favorable
It's actually rather difficult to say which cities【23】the largest. There are two reasons for this difficulty. First of all, it isn't easy to determine a city's boundaries, that is, where a city ends. Nowadays, nearly all cities have a large【24】area around them. So when we talk about the population of a city, we often mean the population of the whole metropolitan area around the city. That means that it's difficult to determine what the population of a city is because it's difficult to define what a city is.
The second reason that it is difficult to【25】the population of different cities is this: it is almost impossible to get【26】about the population of all cities for the same year. For example, we might get an estimate of New York's population in 1979 and an【27】of Mexico City's population in 1981. So we real ly can't compare the numbers because the information is for【28】different years. And the population of cities changes rather quickly, especially in some cases. For example, the population of Jakarta, Indonesia, may increase by 5% each year, so the population figure will change rather quickly.
So we can say that these are our two【29】for comparing the populations of cities: one, it's difficult to determine the【30】of a city, and two, it is difficult to get accurate information.
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B.which
C.where
D.how
What is the 'biggest city in the world? That is, (21) city has the largest population? This seems like (22) question to answer, but actually it isn't.
It's actually rather difficult to say which cities (23) the largest. There are two reasons for this difficulty. First of all, it isn't easy to determine a city's boundaries, that is, where a city ends. Nowadays, nearly all cities have a large (24) area around them. So when we talk about the population of a city, we often mean the population of the whole metropolitan area around the city. That means that it's difficult to determine what the population of a city is because it's difficult to define what a city is.
The second reason that it is difficult to 25 the population of different cities is this: it is almost impossible to get (26) about the population of all cities for the same year. For example, we might get an estimate of New York's population in 1979 and an (27) of Mexico City's population in 1981. So we real ly can't compare the numbers because the information is for (28) different years. And the population of cities changes rather quickly, especially in some cases. For example, the population of Jakarta, Indonesia, may increase by 5% each year, so the population figure will change rather quickly.
So we can say that these are our two (29) for comparing the populations of cities: one, it's difficult to determine the (30) of a city, and two, it is difficult to get accurate information.
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