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Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. He searched it with no success but was attracted by the site's personal search agent. It's an interactive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them when a matching position is posted in the database. Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, D.C. Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening. "I struck gold," says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won a position as in-house counsel for a company.

With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient. Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases. But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks. Narrowing your criteria, for example, may work against you: "Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility." says one expert.

For any job search, you should start with a narrow concept--what you think you want to do--then broaden it. "None of these programs do that," says another expert. "There‘s no career counseling implicit in all of this." Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip service to keep abreast of jobs in a particular database；when you get E-mail，consider it a reminder to check the database again. "I would not rely on agents for finding everything that is added to a database that might interest me," says the author of a job-searching guide.

Some sites design their agents to tempt job hunters to return. When CareerSite's agent sends out messages to those who have signed up for its service, for example, it includes only three potential jobs--those it considers the best matches. There may be more matches in the database; job hunters will have to visit the site again to find them--and they do. "On the day after we send our messages, we see a sharp increase in our traffic," says Seth Peets, vice president of marketing for CareerSite.

Even those who aren‘t hunting for jobs may find search agents worthwhile. Some use them to keep a close watch on the demand for their line of work or gather information on compensation to arm themselves when negotiating for a raise. Although happily employed, Redmon maintains his agent at CareerBuilder. "You always keep your eyes open," he says. Working with a personal search agent means having another set of eyes looking out for you.

41. How did Redmon find his job?
[A] By searching openings in a job database.
[B] By posting a matching position in a database.
[C] By using a special service of a database.
[D] By E-mailing his resume to a database.

[答案] C

[解題思路]

本題對應信息為文章第一段。四個選項都提到了database（數據庫），對于該數據庫可描述在第一段的第三句"It's an interactive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them when a matching position is posted in the database"（這是一種互動功能的搜索器，訪問者可以鍵入諸如地點、職位和薪水等的求職要求，等到資料庫里有了相應的工作職位，系統就會發電子郵件給他們。），同時下面兩句也說明"Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, D.C. Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening"（Redmon輸入了法律、知識產權和哥倫比亞特區華盛頓這些關鍵詞，三周后，他收到了第一份職位空缺通知）。因此Redmond既沒有在數據庫中尋找職位、也沒有在上面發布匹配的職位（他只是輸入了自己要求職位的關鍵信息），同時也沒有把自己的簡歷發給了數據庫，因此A、B、D選擇均可排除，正確答案為C。所謂的"special service"就是"personal search agent"。

[題目譯文]

Redmon是如何找到工作的？
[A] 通過在一個工作數據庫中尋找空缺職位
[B] 通過在一個數據庫中張貼相匹配的職位
[C] 通過使用一個數據庫中的特殊服務
[D] 通過發簡歷到一個數據庫

42. Which of the following can be a disadvantage of search agents?
[A] Lack of counseling.
[B] Limited number of visits.
[C] Lower efficiency.
[D] Fewer successful matches.

[答案] A

[解題思路]

本題要求判斷search agent的缺點，而文章第三段第三句話的引文中指出，"There‘s no career counseling implicit in all of this"（整個系統中沒有任何關于就業咨詢的內容），也就是說這些搜索代理都缺乏咨詢方面的服務，因此A為正確答案。而B、C、D選項在文中并沒有明確提及，因而都是干擾選項，可以排除。

[題目譯文]

下面的哪一項是搜索代理的缺點？
[A] 缺乏咨詢服務
[B] 有限的訪問量
[C] 較低的效率
[D] 成功匹配不多

44. Why does CareerSite's agent offer each job hunter only three job options?
[A] To focus on better job matches.
[B] To attract more returning visits.
[C] To reserve space for more messages.
[D] To increase the rate of success.

[答案] B

[解題思路]

本題的對應信息為文章第四段，仔細分析可以發現該段的幾句話都是圍繞著第一句段落主題句"Some sites design their agents to tempt job hunters to return"（有的網站盡力設計自己的代理系統，以吸引求職者的回訪展開的。CareerSite給每位求職者只發送它認為最好的三個職位，但是數據庫中其實有更多的職位，因此訪客不得不回到數據庫中訪問，于是便有了更多的回頭率，因此B選項如何原文。A選項的錯誤在于該代理給客戶的電子郵件中已經包含了最好的職位信息，因此無需關注更好的職位。而C、D選項則都是無中生有，在文中并沒有依據。

[題目譯文]

為什么"打造事業"代理給每一個找工作的人只提供三個工作選擇？
[A] 為了突出更好的工作匹配
[B] 為了吸引更多的回頭客
[C] 為了給更多信息留下空間
[D] 為了提高成功率

45. Which of the following is true according to the text?
[A] Personal search agents are indispensable to job-hunters.
[B] Some sites keep E-mailing job seekers to trace their demands.
[C] Personal search agents are also helpful to those already employed.
[D] Some agents stop sending information to people once they are employed.

[答案] C

[解題思路]

首先，雖然本文從始至終在談論使用搜索代理對找工作的幫助，但并沒有談到這種工具對找工作的人來說是不可或缺的，因此A選項錯誤。其次，文中只談到搜索代理用電子郵件給客戶發送職位信息，但并沒有跟蹤其需求，因此B選項也是錯誤的，此外文中最后一段提到keep a close watch on the demand的是那些已經有工作的人，不是搜索代理。D選項的表述在文中沒有提到。C選項的對應信息在文章最后一段，"Even those who aren‘t hunting for jobs may find search agents worthwhile"（即使那些并不需要找工作的人也覺得搜索代理很有用處），因此為正確選項。

[題目譯文]

下列哪一項符合文意？
[A] 個人搜索代理對于找工作的人們來說是必不可少的。
[B] 有些網站一直給找工作的人發郵件以跟蹤他們的需求
[C] 個人搜索代理也能夠幫助那些已經有工作的人
[D] 人們一旦找到了工作，那些一些代理就不再給這些人發送信息

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