听力真题

Test 4
Have you ever made a profit from walking a dog? Do you like working alone or in groups? Have you ever set a world (36) ______ in anything? Answer those the right way and you could (37) ______ a job at Google. In its (38) ______ search for more engineers and sales (39) ______ for its rapidly growing business, Google has created an (40) ______ way to look through the more than 100，000 job (41) ______ it receives each month.
Instead of simply looking for people with straight-A's, it's (42) ______ to ask applicants to fill out an in-depth online survey that examines their (43) ______ , behavior and personality.
Questions concern everything from the age the applicant first got excited about computers to whether the person has ever tutored. (44) ___________________________________________________________________________ .
The answers are fed into a series of formulas created by Google's mathematicians that spit out a score from zero to 100. (45) _____________________________________________________________________________ .
"Google has doubled its number of employees in each of the last three years. As we get bigger, we find it harder and harder to find enough people," said Google's vice-president for people operations. "(46) ____________________________________________________________________________________ ," he said.

答案解析

答案解析：
36. record
解析：此处需要一个单数名词作为set的宾语，record为“纪录”。
37. land
解析：此处需要一个及物动词原形作谓语，land a job为“获得一份工作”。
38. desperate
解析：此处需要一个形容词作定语，desperate“急切的”。特别注意其中元音字母的正确拼写。
39. representatives
解析：根据上下文，and连接两个复数形式的名词，填入representatives“代表”。
40. automated
解析：此处需要一个定语，automated“自动化的”为分词用作形容词。
41. applications
解析：根据数词100000此处需要名词的复数形式，注意双写p。
42. starting
解析：根据前面的it's和后面的不定式，此处需要分词。不要误听成startling。
43. attitude
解析：此处需要一个与behavior和personality并列的单数名词，注意双写t。
44. 标准答案：They also seek out non-traditional information. This can include what magazines the applicant subscribes to or what pets that person has
听音关键：non-traditional information，magazines，subscribes，pets
答案重构：They also ask non-traditional questions, including what magazines the applicant subscribes to or what pets that person has
画龙点睛：两句话合并成一句往往是听写的捷径。
45. 标准答案：This is meant to predict how well a person will fit into the freewheeling, competitive company culture
听音关键：predict，person，fit，company culture
答案重构：The purpose is to predict how well a person will fit into the freewill, competitive company culture
画龙点睛：用简单的同义表达freewill替换原词freeweeling。
46. 标准答案：Interviews are a terrible predictor of performance. With traditional hiring methods, we might overlook some of the best candidates
听音关键：interview，terrible，traditional methods，overlook，best candidates
答案重构：Interviews may not predict candidates' performance well. With traditional hiring methods, we might overlook some best candidates.
画龙点睛：虽然改写后的句子表达得也非常清楚，但是考场上如果不能迅速转换信息，不妨照记原句。