2017年商务英语高级考试阅读理解专题训练(二)

　　第一篇

　　Read the text about career-planning services.

　　Choose the best sentence from the opposite page to fill each of the gaps .

　　For each gap 9– 14, mark one letter (A-H) on your Answer Sheet .

　　Do not use any letter more than once .

　　There is an example at the beginning .(0)

　　Your Career Path Can Lead You Anywhere

　　We used to be advised to plan our careers. We were told to make a plan during the later stages of our education and continue with it through our working lives.(0)_____ some people still see careers in this way. However, to pursue a single option for life has always been unrealistic.

　　Planning for a single career assumes that we set out with a full understanding of our likes and dislikes and the employment opportunities open to us. (9)____ For most people this degree of certainty about the future does not exist.

　　Our initial choice of career path and employer is often based on inadequate knowledge and false perceptions. But with age and experience, we develop new interests and aptitudes and our priorities alter. The structure of the employment market and, indeed of employment itself, is subject to change as both new technologies and new work systems are introduced (10) _____ We must face the uncertainties of a portfolio career.

　　It is clear from the recent past that we cannot foresee the changes which will affect our working lives. The pace of change is accelerating , as a result of which traditional career plans will be of very limited use. (11)_____ They will need updating to reflect changes in our own interests as well as in the external work environment. Flexible workers already account for about half the workforce. (12)______ We are likely to face periods as contract workers, self-employed freelances, consultants, temps or part-timers.

　　Many employers encourage staff to write a personal development development (PDP) (13)_____ Although some people use it only to review the skills needed for their job, a PDP could be the nucleus of wider career plan –setting out alternative long-term learning needs and a plan of self-development.

　　A report issued by the Institute of Employment Studies advises people to enhance their employability by moving from traditional technical skills towards the attainment of a range of transferable skills. (14)_____ Instead, special schemes should be established to encourage people to examine their effectiveness and to consider a wider range of needs.

　　0 A B C D E F G H

　　A This dual effect means that the relationship between employers and workers has evolved to such and extent that we can no longer expect a long-term relationship with one employer.

　　B. It carries an implicit assumption that we ourselves, and the jobs we enter, will change little during our working lives.

　　C. This growth suggests that a career plan should not be expressed only in terms of full-time employment but should make provision for the possibility of BEComing one of the.

　　D this is a summary of one’s personal learning needs and an action plan to meet them.

　　E Consequently, they must now accommodate a number of objectives and enable us to prepare for each on a contingency basis.

　　F However, it warns that employers often identify training needs through formal appraisals, which take too narrow a view of development.

　　G . Such a freelance of consultant would be constantly in demand.

　　H We were expected to work towards that one clear goal and to consider a career change as a bad thing.

　　第二篇

　　Questions 21 -30

　　Read the article below about the methods some companies are now using for recruitment.

　　Choose the correct word to fill each gap from (A, B, C or D) on the opposite page.

　　For each question 21-30,mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.

　　There is an example at the beginning, (0)

　　The Scientific Approach to Recruitment

　　When it (0) to selecting candidates through interview, more often than not the decision is made within the first five minutes of a meeting. Yet employers like to (21) themselves that they are being exceptionally thorough in their selection processes. In today’s competitive market place, the (22) of staff in many organizations is fundamental to the company’s success and, as a result , recruiters use all means at their disposal to (23) the best in the field.

　　One method in particular that has (24) in popularity is testing , either psychometric testing, which attempts to define psychological characteristics , or ability￡aptitude testing (25) an organization with an extra way of establishing a candidate’s suitability for a role. It (26) companies to add value by identifying key elements of a position and then testing candidates to ascertain their ability against those identified elements.

　　The employment of psychometric or ability testing as one (27) of the recruitment process may have some merit, but in reality there is no real (28), scientific or otherwise, of the potential future performance of any individual. The answer to this problem is experience in interview techniques and strong definition of the elements of each position to be (29) as the whole recruitment process is based on few real certainties, the instinctive decisions that many employers make, based on a CT and the first five minutes of a meeting, are probably no less valid than any other tool employed in the (30) of recruitment.

　　Example :

　　A have B decide C do D make

　　0 A B C D

　　21.A suggest B convince C advise D believe

　　22.A worth B credit C quality D distinction

　　23.A secure B relies C attain D achieve

　　24.A lifted B enlarged C expanded D risen

　　25.A provides B offers C contributes D gives

　　26.A lets B enables C agrees D admits

　　27. A portion B member C share D component

　　28. A extent B size C amount D measure

　　29.A occupied B met C filled D appointed

　　30 A business B topic C point D affair