10.We're looking for personality
HAVE you ever made a profit from walking a dog?Do you like working alone or in groups?Have you ever set a world record in anything?Answer those the right way and you could land a job at Google.
In its desperate search for more engineers and sales representatives for its rapidly growing business,Google has created an automated way to look through the more than 100,000 job applications it receives each month.
Instead of simply looking for people with straight-As,it's starting to ask applicants to fill out an in-depth online survey that examines their attitude,behavior and personality.
Questions concern everything from the age the applicant first got excited about computers to whether the person has ever tutored.They also seek out non-traditional information.This can include what magazines the applicant subscribes to or what pets that person has.
The answers are fed into a series of formulas created by Google's mathematicians that spit out a score from zero to 100.This is meant to predict how well a person will fit into the freewheeling,competitive company culture.
"Google has doubled its number of employees in each of the last three years.As we get bigger,we find it harder and harder to find enough people,'said Laszlo Bock,Google's vice-president for people operations."Interviews are a terrible predictor of performance.With traditional hiring methods,we might overlook some of the best candidates,"he said..
The online survey is based on the answers to 300questions sent out last summer to every employee at the head office in California's Silicon Valley.Now about 15per cent of applicants take the survey.It will be used for all applicants starting this month.
Whether this method will help Google find the right people is yet to be seen."We wanted to cast a very wide net,"said Bock."It is not unusual to walk the halls here at our office in Silicon Valley and bump into dogs.Maybe people who own dogs have some personality trait that is useful."

60.In terms of finding the right people,the passage is mainly aboutA.
A.Google's attempts            B.Google's success
C.Google's results             D.Google's failure
61.What is not included in the online survey?C
A.a(chǎn)ttitude     B.behavior    C.grades   D.personality.
62.Why does the author mention dog owners?D
A.Dog owners like to work at Google.
B.Dog owners make the workplace happier.
C.Dog owners are more clever than other people.
D.Dog owners have a non-traditional personality.

分析 本文主要講述谷歌公司挑選合適的人們的過程以及在線調(diào)查.

解答 60-62 ACD
60  A  細節(jié)題. 根據(jù)文章Google has created an automated way to look through the more than 100,000 job applications it receives each month.可知為了找到合適的人們,這篇文章主要談?wù)摿斯雀璧膰L試,故選A.
61  C  細節(jié)題. 根據(jù)文章online survey that examines their attitude,behavior and personality. 可知在線調(diào)查包括態(tài)度,行為和個性,不包括成績,故選C.
62  D  細節(jié)題.根據(jù)文章最后一段 people who own dogs have some personality trait that is useful.可知狗的主人有非常有幫助的個性,突破了傳統(tǒng),故選D.

點評 考察學(xué)生的細節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力,做細節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進行比較,再做出正確的選擇.在做推理判斷題不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實,要根據(jù)文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.

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Toyota faces a criminal investigation by federal lawyers in New York.The company is now being investigated.Its US dealerships in difficulty now are facing repairs to potentially millions of customer cars that have been recalled.The company is offering customers money back for rental cars and other expenses.
Its lawyers are busy preparing to cope with lawsuits.A new hearing will be conducted.And the cost to Toyota's reputation is only now starting.
Despite back-to-back hearings this  week,left to be said were a better explanation for slow actions to deal with the faults and believable promises that the problems that led to sudden,unintended accelerations will be fixed.
Toyoda said those changes were being made nearly around the clock,but during three hours of often tense questions and answers he repeated that there was no link to the vehicle's electronic systems.
Many drivers making complaints against Toyota and the government say their acceleration problems had nothing to do with floor mat interference(油門踏板故障)or sticky gas pedals(剎車).Outside experts have suggested electronic problems.
House lawmakers expressed serious criticism on Toyoda,the grandson of the company's founder.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA)is seeking records on Toyota's recalls and is conducting its own review on whether electronics were behind the car faults.NHTSA also continues to look into steering complaints from drivers of the popular Corolla model.
Toyota has recalled 8.5million cars,more than 6million of them in the United States.
It may be a while before car buyers believe that Toyota really makes safe cars.
Toyota's January sales already fell 16percent even as most other automakers jumped back from last year's bad results.Analyst Koji Endo of Advanced Research Japan in Tokyo said he expects February sales,due out next week,to be down 30percent to 40.Toyota's sales problem could continue beyond that.
It will take some time to feel the full effect of this,he said.

66.The best title for this passage isA.
A.Toyota is in trouble    B.Toyota is under hearing
C.Toyota is finished      D.Toyota is still running
67.What is the purpose of the hearing?D
A.America hopes that Toyota apologizes to the US customers.
B.America wants to get Toyota out of the US market.
C.America wants to help Toyota out of difficulty.
D.America hopes that Toyota admits their cars have electronic system problem.
68.What can we infer from the passage?B
A.Toyota provides very good post sale service.
B.Toyota's biggest market is in the United States.
C.Toyota will be closed soon.
D.Toyota's dealership in the US will all be closed.
69.Why does Toyota recall cars and offer customers money back for rental cars and other expenses?A
A.It tries to avoid the maximum damages to the company.
B.It is big company and has means to fix every problem.
C.It's part of post servie.
D.It's a way to compete in auto market.
70.The last sentence of this passage indicatesB.
A.Analyst Koji Endo is fully confident about Toyota
B.Toyota could meet a worse situation
C.Toyota would get out of trouble sooner or later
D.Toyota would build up a better reputation among its customers.

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