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sident 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 pensation 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. 一、文章結(jié)構(gòu)與內(nèi)容分析 本文是一篇說明文,介紹一種幫助求職的個(gè)人搜索代理工具。 Section III Reading Comprehension Text 1 Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder, a job database on the Inter. 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 Emails them when a matching position is posted in the database. Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, . Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening. “I struck gold,” says Redmon, who Emailed his resume to the employer and won a position as inhouse counsel for a pany. With thousands of careerrelated sites on the Inter, finding promising openings can be timeconsuming 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。其他已知的因素還包括:青少年在學(xué)校里形成的挫敗敢或?qū)W習(xí)不及格,越來越容易獲得毒品和酒精,以及兒童受虐待和得不到關(guān)懷的事件日益增多。這樣,兒童在家里所受到的監(jiān)管就可能比過去傳統(tǒng)家庭要少。 近年來家庭也在經(jīng)歷著變化。比如,某些經(jīng)濟(jì)變化導(dǎo)致了年輕人就業(yè)機(jī)會(huì)減少和失業(yè)率上升,通常在這種情況下,想找到薪水豐厚的工作就愈加困難。然而,所有這些理論都不是定論,并且經(jīng)常遭受批評(píng)。 大部分研究青少年犯罪的理論都集中在來自貧窮家庭的兒童身上,而忽略了出身富裕家庭的兒童也犯罪這一事實(shí)。強(qiáng)調(diào)個(gè)人因素的理論認(rèn)為,兒童從事犯罪活動(dòng),是因?yàn)樗麄円郧暗牟涣夹袨闆]有受到應(yīng)有的懲罰,或者由于受別人的影響而學(xué)會(huì)了犯罪。 三、 長(zhǎng)難句翻譯 Theories __21centering__ on the individual suggest that children engage in criminal behavior __22 because__ they were not sufficiently penalized for previous misdeeds or that they have learned criminal behavior through __23_interaction_ with others. 本句中 that children engage in … 和 that they have learned… 做 suggest 的并列賓語從句。前面談已確定的( identifiable)原因,后面談還不確定。 20. [A] provided 倘若 [B] since 既然 [C] although 雖然 [D] supposing假定 [答案 ] C [解 析 ] 邏輯搭配題,答對(duì)率為 52% 空格前后是兩個(gè)完整的分句: All these conditions tend to increase the probability 和 a direct causal relationship has not yet been established,考生需要判斷這兩句話之間的邏輯關(guān)系。由于四個(gè)選項(xiàng)都可以被 growing 修飾,解題的關(guān)鍵只能是根據(jù)邏輯語義做出判斷。只有“( 青少年)越來越容易接觸( availability)毒品和酒精”才可能引起犯罪。 18. [A] expense 費(fèi)用 [B] restriction 限制 [C] allocation 分配 [D] availability 可獲性 [答案 ] D [解 析 ] 詞匯搭配題,答對(duì)率為 % 本題要求考生在空格處填入一個(gè)中心名詞,它可以同時(shí)被 increased 和 drugs and alcohol修飾,描述造成青少年犯罪的一種原因。上文提到的原因是“缺乏教養(yǎng)”,下文提到的原因是“在學(xué)校里形成的挫敗感或?qū)W習(xí)不及格,酗酒,毒品,虐待兒童等”。因此空格 處應(yīng)填入這個(gè)不止一次出現(xiàn)的關(guān)鍵詞structure。此題有 幾個(gè)線索,首先, 考生從 文 中可以分析出:the traditional family 16 與 families consist of oneparent households or two working parents 是相對(duì)照的,后者為現(xiàn)代家庭的組成方式即結(jié)構(gòu),那么前者 空格也應(yīng)相應(yīng)地填入一個(gè)表“結(jié)構(gòu)”含義的詞。顯然它們不符合上下文意。其次,填入 which 和 as,句子的含義就成了:孩子們?cè)诩依锏玫降谋O(jiān)護(hù)越來越少的現(xiàn)象在傳統(tǒng)家庭中非常普遍。這個(gè)題目難在其他兩個(gè)干擾項(xiàng): which 和 as 似乎可以放入空格中,做關(guān)系代 詞,代替前面整個(gè)句子,意為“這種情況在傳統(tǒng)家庭中很普遍”。 Than 在帶有比較級(jí)的句子中可以做關(guān)系代詞,兼有連詞和代詞的性質(zhì),相當(dāng)于 than what,這句話 相當(dāng)于 children have less supervision than ( what) was mon in the traditional family。句子的含義是:(現(xiàn)在的)孩子們?cè)诩依锏玫礁改傅谋O(jiān)護(hù),要比( than)在傳統(tǒng)的家庭里普遍的(監(jiān)護(hù))少( less)。顯然這里包含了一個(gè)從句,由空格處的詞連接??梢姡?