【正文】 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 overpolite or rudely abrupt. 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. D. capable. is the author’ s attitude towards the interview as a selection procedure? A. Unclear. B. Negative. C. Objective. D. Indifferent. to the passage, people argue over the interview as a selection procedure mainly because they have ____. A. different selection procedures B. different puposes in the interview C. different standards for petence D. different experiences in interviews purpose of the last paragraph is to indicate ____. A. a link between success in interview and personality B. connections between work abilities and personality C. differences in interview experience 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 pay higher prices. 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 shoplifting. The same applies to the deliberate amateur who is, so to speak, a professional in training. Most of them get caught sooner or later, and they are dealt with severely by the courts. 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 store manager. 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 bodysearch every time we go into a store to buy a tin of beans! does the honest public have to pay higher prices when they go to the shops? A. There is a “ shrinkage” in market values. B. Many goods are not available. C. Goods in many shops lack variety. D. There are many cases of shoplifting. third group of people steal things because they ____ A. are mentally ill. B. are quite absentminded. not resist the temptation. D. can not afford to pay for goods. to the passage, lawabiding citizens ____. A. can possibly steal things because of their poverty B. can possibly take away goods without paying C. have never stolen goods from the supermarkets D. are difficult to be caught when they steal things of the following statements is NOT true about the main types of shoplifting? A. A big percentage of the total losses are caused by the professionals. B. The deliberate amateurs will be punished severely if they get caught. C. People would expect that those who can’ t help themselves are poor. D. The professionals don’ t cause a lot of trouble to the store detectives. aircraft hijack situation is used in order to show that ____. A. “ the professionals do not pose much of a problem for the stores B. some people “ somply fet to pay for what they take from the shops C. “ the honest public has to pay higher prices 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: things long done with, that still remain as pain. When the ache is bad enough it keeps me from sleeping. Every night I yearn for sleep, I strive for it。 yet it flutters on ahead of me like a curtain. There are sleeping pills, of course, but the doctor has warned me against them. Last night, after what seemed hours of damp turmoil, I got up and crept slipperless down the staris, feeling my way in the faint street light that came through the window. Once safely arrived at the bottom, I walked into the kitchen and looked around in the refrigerator. There was nothing much I wanted to eat: the remains of a bunch of celery, a