2004英一text1

原文初讀

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Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon

stumbled across

CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. He searched it with no success but was attracted by the site' s " personal

search

agent

". It' s an interactive feature that lets visitors

key in

job

criteria

such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them when a matching position is posted in the database. Redmon chose the keywords legal,

intellectual property

and Washington, D.C. Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an?

opening

." I struck gold," says Redmon, who E-mailed his

resume

to the employer and won a position as

in-house counsel

for a company .

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With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient. Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases. But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks.

Narrowing

your criteria , for example , may work against you:" Every time you answer a question you

eliminate

a??possibility," says one expert.

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For any job search, you should start with a narrow concept - what you think you want to do - then

broaden

it ." None of these programs do that," says another expert." There's no career counseling

implicit

in all of this." Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of

tip service

to

keep abreast of

jobs in a particular database; when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder to check the database again." I would not rely on agents for finding everything that is added to a database that might interest me ," says the author of a job-searching guide.

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Some sites design their agents to

tempt

job hunters to return. When CareerSite' s agent sends out messages to those who have

signed up

for its service, for example , it includes only?three potential jobs-those it considers the?best matches. There may be more matches in?the database; job hunters will have to visit the?site again to find them - and they do." On the?day after we send our messages, we see a?sharp increase in our

traffic

," says Seth Peets ,vice president of marketing for CareerSite.

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Even those who aren' t hunting for jobs may find search agents worthwhile. Some use them to keep a close watch on the demand for their

line

of work or gather information on compensation to

arm

themselves when negotiating for a raise. Although happily employed, Redmon maintains his agent at CareerBuilder." You always keep your eyes open," he says. Working with a personal search agent means having another set of eyes

looking out

for you .

重點(diǎn)單詞/短語(yǔ)理解

stumble across

：偶爾發(fā)現(xiàn)

stumble

：vi 絆倒；跌跌撞撞地走，蹣跚而行；（不順暢的）說(shuō)，讀，演奏； n 絆腳，失足；失誤

search agent

：搜索引擎

agent

：n 經(jīng)紀(jì)人；原動(dòng)力，動(dòng)因；（化學(xué)）劑；行為主體

key in

：鍵入

criteria

：標(biāo)準(zhǔn)、準(zhǔn)則；

criterion

(單數(shù)）

intellectual property

：知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)

opening

：n 職位空缺；開口；開始；開幕；adj 開始的，開場(chǎng)的

resume

：n 簡(jiǎn)歷；v 繼續(xù)進(jìn)行；繼續(xù)說(shuō)；恢復(fù)職位

in-house

：內(nèi)部的

counsel

：n 律師、法律顧問(wèn)，咨詢服務(wù)，勸告；v 建議，商討，勸告

narrow

：v（使）變窄

eliminate

：vt 消滅，消除，鏟除；淘汰

implicit

：adj 隱含的；完全的，絕對(duì)的；盲目的；固有的

keep abreast of

：了解…的最新情況

tempt

：v 誘惑，吸引；冒…的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)，不顧

sign up

：報(bào)名參加

traffic

：n 交通，車流；信息流量；非法交易；人流，貨流；交通運(yùn)輸; v 用…做交換；在…通行；交易，買賣，做生意（多指違法）

line

：n 線；類別；隊(duì)伍; v 排隊(duì)；畫線……

arm

：vt 供給，提供；武裝，裝備；n手臂；武器；衣袖；職能部門；vi 準(zhǔn)備（斗爭(zhēng)），準(zhǔn)備行動(dòng)

look out

：當(dāng)心，留神

真題再現(xiàn)

21.How did Redmon find his job ? [ A ] By searching openings in a job database . [ B ] By posting a matching position in a database . [ C ] By using a special service of a database . [ D ] By E-mailing his

resume

to a database . 22.?Which of the following can be a disadvantage of search agents ? [ A ] Lack of counseling . [ B ] Limited number of visits . [ C ] Lower efficiency . [ D ] Fewer successful matches . 23.The expression " tip service "( Line 3,Paragraph 3) most probably means? [ A ]

advisory

? [ B ]

compensation?

[ C ] interaction? [ D ] reminder? 24.Why does CareerSite ' s agent offer each job hunter only three job options ? [ A ] To focus on better job matches . [ B ] To attract more returning visits . [ C ] To reserve space for more messages . [ D ] To increase the rate of success . 25.?Which of the following is true according to the?text ? [ A ] Personal search agents are

indispensable

to job-hunters . [ B ] Some sites keep E-mailing job seekers to trace their demands . [ C ] Personal search agents are also helpful to those already employed . [ D ] Some agents stop sending information to people once they are employed .

答案速查：CADBC

真題解析

21.由

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中l(wèi)awyer Gant Redmon

stumbled across

CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. He

searched it with no success

but was attracted by the site' s "

personal

search

agent

".可知，Redmon使用了一種數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)里的特殊服務(wù)。ABD很明顯錯(cuò)誤。 22.

P3

中There's no career counseling

implicit

in all of this.可以看出答案。

P2

中Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases. 可排除C項(xiàng)。B項(xiàng)由后文可看出網(wǎng)站希望增加用戶訪問(wèn)次數(shù)，而不是限制。D項(xiàng)，Every time you answer a question you

eliminate

a??possibility. 只是說(shuō)每回答一個(gè)問(wèn)題就會(huì)消除一種可能，并沒(méi)有說(shuō)databases匹配成功幾率低，過(guò)度引申。 23.由后文consider it a reminder to check the database again，可鎖定正確選項(xiàng)。

advisory

?：n 報(bào)告的；adj 顧問(wèn)的，咨詢的；勸告的

compensation?

：n 賠償金；賠償；補(bǔ)償；薪酬，工資

24.

P4

中Some sites design their agents to

tempt

job hunters to return. 和job hunters will have to visit the?site again to find them - and they do.可知選B。 25.由

P5

可知正確選項(xiàng)，同理，D錯(cuò)誤。A項(xiàng)過(guò)于絕對(duì)。B項(xiàng)

P1

中已經(jīng)說(shuō)過(guò)then E-mails them when a matching position is posted in the database，并不是不斷地發(fā)電子郵件。

indispensable

：adj 必不可少的；必需的

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