某大学---20xx年英语专业四级考试试卷及答案(编辑修改稿)

某大学---20xx年英语专业四级考试试卷及答案(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

it is, perhaps, a good argument — is that an employer is concerned not only with a candidate’s ability, but with the suitability of his or her personality for the particular work situation. Many employers, for example, will overlook occasional inefficiencies from their secretary provided she h It is perhas true to say, therefore, that the real purpose of an interview is not to assess the assssable aspects of each candidate but to make a guess at the more intangible things, such as personality, character and social ability. Unfortunately, both for the employers and applicants for jobs, there are many people of great ability who simply do not interview well. There are also, of course, people who interview extremely well, but are later found to be very unsatisfactory empl Candidates who interview well tend to be quietly confident, but never boastful。 direct and straightforward in their questions and answers。 cheerful and friendly, but never overfamiliar。 and sincerely enthusiastic and optimistic. Candidates who interview badly tend to be at either end of the spectrum of human behaviour. They are either very shy or overconfident. They show either a lack of enthusiasm or an excess of it. They either talk too little or never stop talking. They are either over can infer from the passage that an employer might tolerate his secretary’s occasional mistakes, if the latter is __ A. direct. B. cheerful. C. shy. is the author’s atti tude towards the interview as a selection procedure? A. Unclear. B. Negative. C. Objective. D. Indifferent. A. different selection B. connecti D. differences in personal behaviour TEXT B Every year thousands of people are arrested and taken to court for shoplifting. In Britain alone, about HK$3,000,000’s worth of goods are stolen from shops every week. This amounts to something like HK$150 million a year, and represents about 4 per cent of the shops’ total stock. As a result of this “shrinkage” as the shops call it, the honest public has to Shoplifters can be divided into three main categories: the professionals, the deliberate amateur, and the people who just can’t help themselves. The professionals do not pose much of a problem for the store detectives, who, assisted by closed circuit television, twoway mirrors and various other technological devices, can usually cope with them. The professionals tend to go for high value goods in parts of the shops where security measures are tightest. And, in any case, they account for only a small percentage of the total losses due to shop The same applies to the deliberate amateur who is, so to speak, a professional in training. Most of them get caught soone The real problem is the person who gives way to a sudden temptation and is in all other respects an honest and lawabiding citizen. Contrary to what one would expect, this kind of shoplifter is rarely poor. He does not steal because he needs the goods and cannot afford to pay for them. He steals because he simply cannot stop himself. And there are countless others who, because of age, sickness or plain absentmindedness, simply fet to pay for what they take from the shops. When caught, all are liable to prosecution, and the decision whether to send for the police or not is in the hands of the s In order to prevent the quite incredible growth in shiplifting offences, some stores, in fact, are doing their best to separate the thieves from the confused by prohibiting customers from taking bags into the store. However, what is most worrying about the whole problem is, perhaps, that it is yet another instance of the innocent majority being penalized and inconvenienced because of the actions of a small minority. It is the aircraft hijack situation in another form. Because of the possibility of one passenger in a million boarding an aircraft with a weapon, the other 999,999 passengers must subject themselves to searches and delays. Unless the situation in the shops improves, in ten years’ time we may all have to subject ourselves to a body does the honest public have to pay higher prices when they go to the shops? D. There are many cases of shop A. are mentally ill. B. are quite absent not resist the temptation. to the passage, law D. of the following statements is NOT true about the main types of shop B. The deliberate amateurs will be punished A. “the D. the third type of shoplifters are dangerous people TEXT C My bones have been aching again, as they often do in humid weather. They ache like history: thin。