If you have any problems, you should refer___________ the instructions.

A. to             B. with           C. on             D. in

他熱忠于當(dāng)一名志愿者的原因是他覺得給別人帶來快樂的人才是世界上最幸福的人。（keen）

她扎實的英語使他在面試中比別的學(xué)生略勝一籌。(enable)

能否實現(xiàn)理想主要靠努力而不是機遇。 (not…but)

我認為養(yǎng)成一種愛好是非常必要的。（…it…）

人人都有受教育的權(quán)利。（access）

Nowadays more and more foreign enterprises and companies are no longer relying on interviews for recruitment.  Years of studying interviewing has made clear that it is not a very objective process.  Personnel officers often hire the person they like best or even the one they think most physically attractive.  Looking good is no guarantee of doing the job well.

To get a more objective view, many companies are also using psychological tests, to hire both for relatively routine job and for positions at senior levels of management.  It is impossible to say how many employers use tests, but estimates of test sales in the U.K. for 2001 were over one million.

Recruitment can involve steps in two ways.  Step 1 is always the same: job application.  The company decides whether you might be suitable based on your qualifications and your previous job experience.  Step 2 can be screening.  A specific test is given at this stage to rule out those who might not be worth interviewing.  Some large employers use tests ---especially IQ based tests precisely to eliminate the unsuitable.  Only those who pass Step 2 go to the interview.  Step 2 can also be testing and interview combined. If the company thinks you might be suitable after looking at your application, they ask you to come to be tested and to be interviewed. It is seen very much as part of the same step.

Tests claim to be scientific and objective.  A large body of research has shown that interviews by themselves are not very reliable as a method of selection.  People’s judgments are often very subjective: whether they like the look of someone counts for more than almost anything else.  But reliable and valid tests can offer rapid and more objective information about would-be employees.  If a candidate talks well in an interview but his test results suggest that he is a careless person who cannot concentrate, and employer is likely to think twice about hiring him.

Taking a serious test for a job is rather different form taking a game-like test.  You can spend just a little time answering questions of that kind of test, and you can deny the answers and say they are not accurate.  But you can not go to a serious test without enough preparation since you can not afford to be denied and eliminated again and again.  What can you do to do justice to yourself in tests?  Here are three tips: Understand, Analyze, Practice.

Beyond two or three days, the world’s best weather forecasts are doubtful, and beyond six or seven they are worthless.

The Butterfly Effect is the reason. For small pieces of weather―to a global forecaster, small can mean thunderstorms and blizzards (暴風(fēng)雪)―any prediction becomes worse rapidly. Errors and uncertainties increase, from dust devils and storms up to continent-size eddies (旋渦) that only satellites can see.

The modern weather models work with net-like points sixty miles apart, and even so, some starting data have to be guessed, since ground stations and satellites cannot see everywhere. But suppose the earth could be covered with sensors placed one foot apart, rising at one-foot intervals all the way to the top of the atmosphere. Suppose every sensor gives perfectly accurate readings of temperature, pressure, humidity (濕度), and any other data a weatherman would want. Exactly at noon a powerful computer takes all the data and calculates what will happen at each point at 12.01, then 12.02, then 12.03… the computer will still be unable to predict whether Princeton will have sun or rain one month away. At noon the spaces between the sensors will hide fluctuations (波動) that the computer will not know about. By 12.01, those fluctuations will already have created small errors one foot away. Soon the errors will have added to the ten-foot scale, and so on up to the size of the globe.

72．A weather forecast ______ in the world.

A．is reliable within one or two days           

B．is doubtful beyond 24 hours

C．becomes useless beyond two or three days                                

D．is still worthwhile in seven days

73．Usually there is a weather sub-station ______.

A．in every city                                         B．every 60 miles

C．between two cities                                D．every one foot

74．Which of the following statements is true?

A．People have not placed sensors one foot apart in the atmosphere.

B．Scientists have already put sensors one foot apart in the world.

C．Every sensor gives perfectly accurate data a weatherman wants.

75．Our computer will not be able to know about fluctuations because ______.

A．the sensors are not good enough           

B．they are hidden by the spaces between the sensors

C．they are too far away                          

D．they move very fast      

       With the US as a new destination for Chinese group tours, American tourism companies are   41   “cautious optimism” （謹慎的樂觀） on their future prospects.  While most in the tourist industry look forward to growth in the number of Chinese tourists, they are also   42  about the high cost of holidays.  Compared with visits to Europe, travel to the US   43   a longer trip and results in higher costs---   44  with oil prices continuing to rise rapidly.  Many tourism insiders believe different tours should be  45  for different types of Chinese tourists.

       On June17 more than 200 Chinese tourists took off from airports in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in the first group tour of the US.  Yang Wei, a Beijing girl  46  from college, said she expects to see famous landmarks such as the US Capitol, the White House, the Pentagon and the Statue of Liberty.  “The group tour to the US has brought much convenience to the  47  Chinese people,” she said. “Otherwise I cannot imagine a young girl like me can get a visa to America so easily.”  The US  48  only student and business visas to Chinese in the past.  Shao Qiwei, director of China’s National Tourism Administration, said tourism promotes friendship and mutual understanding between the Chinese and American people.  “Not many Chinese people have been to the United States and vice versa,” he said. “Group tours connect the two nations to bring about mutual benefits,” Shao said.

       China’s first group received a warm welcome from the US government and tourism industry.  The Capitol in Washington, D.C．opened a special  49  for Chinese guests.  The US Department of Commerce invited them to visit the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which prints US currency.  Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez gave a dinner in their honor on a passenger ship.