2018专四阅读理解练习：求职个人搜索代理

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2018专四阅读理解练习：求职个人搜索代理

2018专四阅读理解练习汇总

　　Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer GantRedmon stumbledacross CareerBuilder, a jobdatabase on the Internet. He searched it withnosuccess but was attracted by the site’s“personalsearch agent”. It’s an interactive featurethat lets visitors key in job criteria suchas location,title, and salary, then E-mails them when a matchingposition isposted in the database. Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectualproperty,and Washington, D.C. Three weeks later, he got his first notification of anopening. “Istruck gold,’ says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won aposition as in-house counsel for a company。

　　With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, findingpromising openings can betime-consuming and inefficient. Search agents reducethe need for repeated visits to thedatabases. But although a search agentworked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks.Narrowing your criteria, forexample, may work against you: “Every time you answer a questionyou eliminate a possibility。” says oneexpert。

　　For any job search, you should start with a narrow concept—what youthink you want to do—then broaden it. “None of these programs do that,” says anotherexpert. “There’s no careercounseling implicit in all of this。” Instead,the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind oftip service to keep abreastof jobs in a particular database; when you get E-mail, consider it areminderto check the database again. “I would not rely on agents for finding everything that isadded to adatabase that might interest me,” says the author of a job-searching guide。

　　Some sites design their agents to tempt job hunters to return. WhenCareerSite’s agentsends out messages to those who have signed up for itsservice, for example, it includes onlythree potential jobs—those itconsiders the best matches. There may be more matches in thedatabase; jobhunters will have to visit the site again to find them—and they do.“On the dayafter we send our messages, we see a sharp increase inour traffic,” says Seth Peets, vicepresident of marketing for CareerSite。

　　Even those who aren’t hunting for jobs may find search agents worthwhile. Some usethemto keep a close watch on the demand for their line of work or gatherinformation oncompensation to arm themselves when negotiating for a raise.Although happily employed,Redmon maintains his agent at CareerBuilder. “You alwayskeep your eyes open,” he says.Working with a personal search agent means having anotherset of eyes looking out for you。

　　21. 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。

　　22. 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。

　　23. The expression “tip service” (Line 3, Paragraph 3) most probably means

　　[A] advisory.