Smart job-seekers need to rid themselves of several standard myths about interviewing before they start looking for a job. What follows is a list of some of these untruths and some tips to help you do your best at your next interview.
Myth 1: The aim of interviewing is to obtain (means “get”) a job offer.
Only half true. The real aim of an interview is to obtain the job you want. That often means rejecting job offers you don’t want! So before you please an employer, be sure you want the job.
Myth 2: Always please the interviewer
Not true. Try to please yourself. Of course, don’t be hostile—nobody wants to hire someone disagreeable. But there is plainly a muddle ground between being too ingratiating（逢迎）and being hostile.
Myth 3: Try to control the interview
Nobody “controls” an interview. When someone tries to control us, we resent（憎恨）it. When we try to control others, they resent us. Remember you can’t control what an employer thinks of you, just as he can’t control what you think of him. So he is ready to give and take when being interviewed; never control the interview.
Myth 4: Never interrupt the interviewer
Study the style of the effective conversationalists: they interrupt and are interrupted! An exciting conversation always makes us feel free—free to interrupt, to disagree, to agree enthusiastically. Just hang loose. Try being yourself for a change. Employers will either like or dislike you, but at least you’ll have made an impression. Leaving an employer indifferent（冷漠的）is the worst impression you can make.
【小题1】To be your natural self in a job interview will__________.
| A．make your interviewer angry | B．please your interviewer |
| C．leave an impression on the interviewer | D．leave the interviewer indifferent to you |
| A．affect the interviewer’s opinion of them |
| B．lead to the offer of a job |
| C．enable them to express themselves fully |
| D．help to create a favorable image of themselves |
| A．try to obtain the job | B．reject the job first |
| C．qualify yourself for the job | D．see if it is a job you want |
| A．obedient | B．hostile | C．pleasing | D．agreeable |
| A．stay calm and relaxed | B．become weak and passive |
| C．take charge | D．sit back comfortably |
科目：高中英语 来源：2004年高考红皮书·英语 题型：050
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The interview has been going on for about twenty minutes and everything seems to be going well. Then, suddenly, the interviewer asks an unexpected question. “Which is more important, law or love?”
Job applicants(申请者) in the west increasingly find themselves asked strange questions like this. And the signs are that this is beginning to happen in China. Employers want people who are skilled, enthusiastic(热情的)and devoted. So these are the qualities that any reasonably smart job applicant will try to show no matter what his or her actual feelings are. In response(应答), employers are increasingly using questions which try and show the applicant's true personality.
The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Kiersey Personality Sorter. It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems, rather than what they know. This is often called aptitude testing(潜能测试).
According to Mark Baldwin of Alliance many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult. “When a Chinese person fills out an aptitude test he or she will think there is a right answer and they may well fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to see. ”
This is sometimes called the prisoner's dilemma(窘境). Applicants are trying to act cleverly in their own interest. But they failed because they don't understand what the interviewer is looking for. Remember that in an aptitude testing, the correct answer is always the honest answer.
1．The writer wrote the passage to ________.
[ ]
A．give you a piece of advice on a job interview
B．tell you how to meet a job interview
C．describe an aptitude test
D．advise you how to find a good job
2．Now employers want to hire workers ________.
[ ]
A．who know much more than others
B．who are better skilled than others
C．who are able to solve different problems
D．who will work harder than others
3．According to the writer, in an aptitude testing, Chinese job applicants should ________.
[ ]
A．not tell the truth
B．learn to tell what they really think
C．be more enthusiastic
D．try to find out what the examiner really wants to know
4．From the passage we know that ________.
[ ]
A．job applicants are always asked such questions
B．more Chinese applicants fail to find a job
C．applicants should not act as reasonably as a prisoner
D．aptitude testing is becoming popular the world wide
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Smart job-seekers need to rid themselves of several standard myths about interviewing before they start looking for a job. What follows is a list of some of these untruths and some tips to help you do your best at your next interview.
Myth 1: The aim of interviewing is to obtain (means “get”) a job offer.
Only half true. The real aim of an interview is to obtain the job you want. That often means rejecting job offers you don’t want! So before you please an employer, be sure you want the job.
Myth 2: Always please the interviewer
Not true. Try to please yourself. Of course, don’t be hostile—nobody wants to hire someone disagreeable. But there is plainly a muddle ground between being too ingratiating（逢迎）and being hostile.
Myth 3: Try to control the interview
Nobody “controls” an interview. When someone tries to control us, we resent（憎恨）it. When we try to control others, they resent us. Remember you can’t control what an employer thinks of you, just as he can’t control what you think of him. So he is ready to give and take when being interviewed; never control the interview.
Myth 4: Never interrupt the interviewer
Study the style of the effective conversationalists: they interrupt and are interrupted! An exciting conversation always makes us feel free—free to interrupt, to disagree, to agree enthusiastically. Just hang loose. Try being yourself for a change. Employers will either like or dislike you, but at least you’ll have made an impression. Leaving an employer indifferent（冷漠的）is the worst impression you can make.
To be your natural self in a job interview will__________.
A. make your interviewer angry B. please your interviewer
C. leave an impression on the interviewer D. leave the interviewer indifferent to you
For job seekers, efforts to control the interview are likely to __________.
A. affect the interviewer’s opinion of them
B. lead to the offer of a job
C. enable them to express themselves fully
D. help to create a favorable image of themselves
The most important thing to keep in mind when being interviewed for a job is to _________.
A. try to obtain the job B. reject the job first
C. qualify yourself for the job D. see if it is a job you want
The right attitude to a job interviewer is to be _________.
A. obedient B. hostile C. pleasing D. agreeable
“hang loose” in last paragraph means to _________.
A. stay calm and relaxed B. become weak and passive
C. take charge D. sit back comfortably
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科目：高中英语 来源：2010年广东省高二上学期期中测试英语卷 题型：阅读理解
Smart job-seekers need to rid themselves of several standard myths about interviewing before they start looking for a job. What follows is a list of some of these untruths and some tips to help you do your best at your next interview.
Myth 1: The aim of interviewing is to obtain (means “get”) a job offer.
Only half true. The real aim of an interview is to obtain the job you want. That often means rejecting job offers you don’t want! So before you please an employer, be sure you want the job.
Myth 2: Always please the interviewer
Not true. Try to please yourself. Of course, don’t be hostile—nobody wants to hire someone disagreeable. But there is plainly a muddle ground between being too ingratiating（逢迎）and being hostile.
Myth 3: Try to control the interview
Nobody “controls” an interview. When someone tries to control us, we resent（憎恨）it. When we try to control others, they resent us. Remember you can’t control what an employer thinks of you, just as he can’t control what you think of him. So he is ready to give and take when being interviewed; never control the interview.
Myth 4: Never interrupt the interviewer
Study the style of the effective conversationalists: they interrupt and are interrupted! An exciting conversation always makes us feel free—free to interrupt, to disagree, to agree enthusiastically. Just hang loose. Try being yourself for a change. Employers will either like or dislike you, but at least you’ll have made an impression. Leaving an employer indifferent（冷漠的）is the worst impression you can make.
1.To be your natural self in a job interview will__________.
|
A．make your interviewer angry |
B．please your interviewer |
|
C．leave an impression on the interviewer |
D．leave the interviewer indifferent to you |
2. For job seekers, efforts to control the interview are likely to __________.
|
A．affect the interviewer’s opinion of them |
|
B．lead to the offer of a job |
|
C．enable them to express themselves fully |
|
D．help to create a favorable image of themselves |
3.The most important thing to keep in mind when being interviewed for a job is to _________.
|
A．try to obtain the job |
B．reject the job first |
|
C．qualify yourself for the job |
D．see if it is a job you want |
4.The right attitude to a job interviewer is to be _________.
|
A．obedient |
B．hostile |
C．pleasing |
D．agreeable |
5. “hang loose” in last paragraph means to _________.
|
A．stay calm and relaxed |
B．become weak and passive |
|
C．take charge |
D．sit back comfortably |
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科目：高中英语 来源：0119 期中题 题型：阅读理解
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