题目

PART FOUR
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

答案及讲解

答案:21 B 22C 23 A 24 D25 A
26-30 B D D C A

21.这这句话的意思来看，应该是使自己确信……，所以应该选择B.convince
22.根据意思理解，肯定是员工的质量对企业的作用，而且质量包含了所有工作需要的方面，所以应该选择C.quality.
23.应该是确保他们在这一行业是最好的，应该选择A.secure.
24.受欢迎程度应该是提高，A.lift是及物动词。B和C都是范围扩大的意思，所以只有D.risen是合适的选项。
25.从意思看是提供，几个选项差不多都有这个意思，但是offer和give后面直接跟所提供的物，不需要加with.而只有provide sb with sth是固定用法。所以选择A。
26.从意思来看，因该是使某事成为可能，而不是允许或同意，所以C和D排除了。而let后跟动词原形，只有B.enable后加动词不定式。
27.成分，一部分，应该选择component.protion着重于份额的意思，member是成员，share分享或贡献的一份，股份。
28.应该是衡量的意思，只有D合适。
29.在这里看是填补空缺职位的意思。但是occupy和appoint主语都是人，某人被委任某职位。而这里是职位做主语，所以应该选择C。
30.business除了商业，还有事务的意思。