Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do-especially in tight job market.Bob Crossly, a human resource expert, notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day.“It’s amazing how many candidates cross themselves out,” he says.

  “Resumes(簡歷)arrive with faults.Some candidates don’t bother to spell the company’s name correctly.Once I see a mistake, I cross out the candidate,” Crossly concludes.“If they can’t 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, the professor at the University of California, San Francisco, “we must constantly ask ourselves how the details we are 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 coordinate(坐標)of our goal.This allowed us to make adjustment as necessary.” Knowing where 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.

(1)

According to the passage, some job applicants were rejected because ________.

[  ]

A.

they failed to present resumes that are free of mistakes

B.

they failed to give a detailed description of their background

C.

they cross out their names from the applicants list themselves

D.

their handwriting on the resume was hard to recognize

(2)

The third paragraph is intended to state that ________.

[  ]

A.

trees are as important as forest

B.

we should pay much attention to details

C.

we shouldn’t go too far in details to lose our goals

D.

perfectionists are able to achieve perfect results

(3)

Which of the following is the author’s advice to the readers?

[  ]

A.

Careless applicants shouldn’t be trusted

B.

Attention to details shouldn’t be overlooked

C.

Don’t forget details before we move to something else

D.

Be aware of the details of a task before undertaking it

(4)

The example of Apollo II moon launch is given to show that ________.

[  ]

A.

minor mistakes can be ignored

B.

failure is the mother of success

C.

adjustments are the key to successful completion of any work

D.

keeping one’s goal in mind helps decide which details can be overlooked

答案:1.A;2.C;3.B;4.D;
解析:

(1)

參考第一段內(nèi)容。

(2)

根據(jù)To keep from losing the forest for the trees,” says Charles Garfield, the professor at the University of California, San Francisco, “we must constantly ask ourselves how the details we are working on fit into the larger picture.If they don’t, we should drop them and move to something else.”可知

(3)

全文主要講述作者的觀點是對細節(jié)的注意不應(yīng)該忽略。

(4)

根據(jù)第四段But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinate(坐標)of our goal.This allowed us to make adjustment as necessary.”強調(diào)了目標的重要。


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