时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:历年考研英语阅读理解


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[00:10.67]Hunting for a job late last year,
[00:13.25]lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder,
[00:16.99]a job database on the Internet.
[00:19.90]He searched it with no success
[00:22.43]but was attracted by the site's "personal search agent".
[00:26.37]It's an interactive 1 feature
[00:28.69]that lets visitors key in job criteria 2 such as location,
[00:32.93]title, and salary,
[00:35.05]then E-mails them when a matching position
[00:37.59]is posted in the database.
[00:40.11]Redmon chose the keywords legal,
[00:43.03]intellectual property, and Washington, D.C.
[00:47.26]Three weeks later,
[00:48.68]he got his first notification of an opening.
[00:52.00]"I struck gold, " says Redmon,
[00:54.63]who E-mailed his resume to the employer
[00:57.04]and won a position as in-house counsel for a company.
[01:01.38]With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet,
[01:04.91]finding promising 3 openings can be time-consuming and inefficient 4.
[01:10.35]Search agents reduce the need for repeated
[01:13.18]visits to the databases.
[01:15.10]But although a search agent worked for Redmon,
[01:18.13]career experts see drawbacks.
[01:21.25]Narrowing your criteria, for example,
[01:23.68]may work against you:
[01:25.89]"Every time you answer a question
[01:27.99]you eliminate a possibility," says one expert.
[01:32.28]For any job search,
[01:33.99]you should start with a narrow concept
[01:36.72]--what you think you want to do--then broaden it.
[01:40.76]"None of these programs do that," says another expert.
[01:44.35]"There's no career counseling implicit 5 in all of this."
[01:48.39]Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent
[01:51.72]as a kind of tip service
[01:53.84]to keep abreast 7 of jobs in a particular database;
[01:57.68]when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder
[02:00.69]to check the database again.
[02:03.52]"I would not rely on agents for finding everything
[02:06.53]that is added to a database that might interest me,"
[02:10.25]says the author of a job-searching guide.
[02:13.56]Some sites design their agents
[02:15.74]to tempt 8 job hunters to return.
[02:18.56]When CareerSite's agent sends out messages
[02:21.08]to those who have signed up for its service, for example,
[02:25.01]it includes only three potential jobs
[02:28.24]--those it considers the best matches.
[02:31.47]There may be more matches in the database;
[02:34.40]job hunters will have to visit the site again to find them
[02:38.13]--and they do.
[02:40.04]"On the day after we send our messages,
[02:42.46]we see a sharp increase in our traffic,"
[02:45.08]says Seth Peets, vice 6 president of marketing 9 for CareerSite.
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[02:50.42]Even those who aren't hunting for jobs may
[02:52.83]find search agents worthwhile.
[02:55.55]Some use them to keep a close watch
[02:57.87]on the demand for their line of work
[03:00.02]or gather information on compensation
[03:02.64]to arm themselves when negotiating for a raise.
[03:06.57]Although happily employed,
[03:08.39]Redmon maintains his agent at CareerBuilder.
[03:11.81]"You always keep your eyes open," he says.
[03:14.43]Working with a personal search agent means
[03:17.03]having another set of eyes looking out for you.


1 interactive
adj.相互作用的,互相影响的,(电脑)交互的
  • The psychotherapy is carried out in small interactive groups.这种心理治疗是在互动的小组之间进行的。
  • This will make videogames more interactive than ever.这将使电子游戏的互动性更胜以往。
2 criteria
n.标准
  • The main criterion is value for money.主要的标准是钱要用得划算。
  • There are strict criteria for inclusion in the competition.参赛的标准很严格。
3 promising
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
4 inefficient
adj.效率低的,无效的
  • The inefficient operation cost the firm a lot of money.低效率的运作使该公司损失了许多钱。
  • Their communication systems are inefficient in the extreme.他们的通讯系统效率非常差。
5 implicit
a.暗示的,含蓄的,不明晰的,绝对的
  • A soldier must give implicit obedience to his officers. 士兵必须绝对服从他的长官。
  • Her silence gave implicit consent. 她的沉默表示默许。
6 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
7 abreast
adv.并排地;跟上(时代)的步伐,与…并进地
  • She kept abreast with the flood of communications that had poured in.她及时回复如雪片般飞来的大批信件。
  • We can't keep abreast of the developing situation unless we study harder.我们如果不加强学习,就会跟不上形势。
8 tempt
vt.引诱,勾引,吸引,引起…的兴趣
  • Nothing could tempt him to such a course of action.什么都不能诱使他去那样做。
  • The fact that she had become wealthy did not tempt her to alter her frugal way of life.她有钱了,可这丝毫没能让她改变节俭的生活习惯。
9 marketing
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
学英语单词
4-pentenoic acid
Afterschorl
alcali
Almenara de Tormes
american hellebores
anti democracy
backfurrow
bargain on spot
bilardo
busfare
by the very nature of things
cartilaginous ossification
Central African Federation
clearance limit survey
coal cutter picks
COD diet
cournot model
curral
Custer's staining method
day's of grace
DDPA
deens
degloried
denotifying
dephosphorization under reducing atmosphere
dipole length
dual feed
dull
dynamic interdependency
export credit account
fabric axis
facilities advisor
first-order response
fore-and-aft axis
foreclose
frontal clasper
genus Comptonia
germing
grasshopper mouse
greebo
heavy-duty chain
heilslehre
herpes simplex viruss
hippohaulage
horizontal magnetic needle
income and expense summary accout
inpermeable surface
it is a shame that
kernel of finite rank
Kulenkampff's plexus anesthesia
lampkin
leprosery
lolsies
loss compensator
lower frigid zone
Luxemburgist
Maddlexin
masheke
musculi diaphragmatis pelvis
Naudet's barometer
non-numerical switch
nonvarsity
Oligopus
oprahfications
organizational development (od)
phyllachora euryae
Planck formula
plant performance
pretectum
prockters
propylons
quinidines
red in tooth and claw
red mercury sulfide
reset valve
Rhamadan
run-time support routine
Saint-Dizier
Sarcococca ruscifolia
scan area
secrely
sex appraisal
shielded grid tube
silicization
solvent-extracted oil
standardized international signs and symbols
sulfaurea drugs
superdeformation
suprascapular ligament
tetraphenylhydrazine
the beau monde
thermohaline current
three-time level scheme
Toronto Star, The
tuberculinums
underwater gravimeter
unique visitor
vibration-absorptive material
wired multi-aperture plate for memory
woodfields
work out one's own salvation
zenaida doves