Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do especially in tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. "It's amazing how many candidates eliminate themselves," he says.

　　"Resumes(簡(jiǎn)歷)arrive with stains.Some candidates don't bother to spell the company's name correctly.Once I see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate," Crossley concludes. "If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job?"

　　Can we pay too much attention to details? Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. "TO keep from losing the forest for the trees," says Charles Garfield,associate professor at the University of California,San Francisco, "we must constantly ask ourselves how the details we are working on fit into the larger picture. If they don't, we should drop them and move to something else."

　　Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA."The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off-course 90 percent of the time. "says Garfield."But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal.This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary. “Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.

　　Too often we believe what accounts for others' success is some special secret or a lucky break(機(jī)遇). But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.

　　1.According to the passage, some job applicants were rejected ________.

　　A. because of their carelessness as shown in their failure to present a clean copy of a resume

　　B. because of their inadequate education as shown in their poor spelling in writing a resume

　　C. because they failed to give a detailed description of their background in their applications

　　D. because they eliminated their names from the applicants’ list themselves

　　Best Answer:A

　　詳解：答案A。答題依據(jù)是第一段最后一句話"It's amazing how many candidates to eliminate themselves," he says.和第二段第一句Resumes arrive with stains.前一句是結(jié)果，后一句是原因。題干中job applicants, rejected分別與文中candidates, eliminate對(duì)應(yīng)。答案選項(xiàng)中的carelessness與文中stain對(duì)應(yīng)。

　　2.The word “perfectionists” (Para. 3, Line 1) refers to those who ________.

　　A. demand others to get everything absolutely right

　　B. know how to adjust their goals according to the circumstances

　　C. pay too much attention to details only to lose their major objectives

　　D. are capable of achieving perfect results in whatever they do

　　Best Answer:C

　　詳解：答案C。答題時(shí)首先要依靠上下文。第三段第一句話中的too…to結(jié)構(gòu)是設(shè)問(wèn)：我們會(huì)不會(huì)對(duì)細(xì)節(jié)過(guò)份注重?第二句話中struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward意思是：以犧牲要做的大事為代價(jià)而注重一些雞毛蒜皮的小事。由此可見(jiàn)Perfectionists(完美主義者)是一種事無(wú)巨細(xì)一概追求盡善盡美，但往往又失去主要目標(biāo)的人。后一句To keep from the forest for the trees相當(dāng)于中文的“只見(jiàn)樹木不見(jiàn)森林”，“抓了芝麻丟了西瓜”一類說(shuō)法。答題時(shí)還應(yīng)搞清這一段在全文語(yǔ)篇發(fā)展中所起的承上啟下的作用。本文前兩段是批評(píng)人們粗枝大葉，不拘小節(jié)。這一段轉(zhuǎn)而告誡人們不要過(guò)于拘泥于小節(jié)，吹毛求疵，而應(yīng)該在注意細(xì)節(jié)的同時(shí)不忘整體。

　　3.Which of the following is the author's advice to the reader?

　　A. Although too much attention to details may be costly, they should not be overlooked.

　　B. Don' t forget details when drawing pictures.

　　C. Be aware of the importance of a task before undertaking it.

　　D. Careless applicants are not to be trusted.

　　Best Answer:A

　　詳解：答案A。推理依據(jù)有兩處，第一處是第三段第二句話中struggle over little things at the cost of something larger，言下之意是：過(guò)于注重細(xì)節(jié)往往要付出很大代價(jià)。另一處是文章最后一段的最后一句話，意思是：只要人們把手頭的一件件小事做好就可能得到很大的報(bào)償。根據(jù)這兩處所述，我們可以推斷，作者會(huì)這樣勸告人們“雖然過(guò)于注重細(xì)節(jié)可能要付出大的代價(jià)，但我們還是不應(yīng)該忽略它們”。