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 e across his desk every day. “It’s amazing how many candidates cross out themselves,” he says.
“Resumes (简历)arrive with faults. Some candidates don’t bother to spell the pany’s name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I cross out the candidates,” 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? 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, the professor at the University of California, San Francisco, “We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we’re working on fit into the larger picture. If they don’t, we should drop them and move to something else.”
Garfield pares this process to his work as a puter 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 position of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary.” Knowing where 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. But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.
【小题1】According to the passage, some job applicants were rejected because .A．they failed to present resumes that are free of mistakes B．they failed to give a detailed description of their background C．they crossed out their names from the applicants list themselves D．their handwriting on the resume was hard to recognize【小题2】The underlined word “cross out” in the first paragraph probably means .A．neglectB．remendC．wipeD．introduce【小题3】The third paragraph is intended to state that .A．trees are as important as forests B．we should pay much attention to detailsC．we shouldn’t go too far in details to lose our goalsD．perfectionists are capable of achieving perfect results【小题4】The example of Apollo II moon launch is given to show that .A．minor mistakes can be ignored B．failure is the mother of success C．adjustments are the key to the successful pletion of any work D．keeping one’s goal in mind helps decide which details can be overlookedA
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(答案→)A
解析：文章通过实例的比较说明细节固然重要，但是不能只拘泥于细节，在平时工作时要有明确的目标这样才能避免一些无谓的细节。
【小题1】根据第二段可知候选者被删名是由于没有注意到自己简历中对应聘的公司名称拼写错误等这些细微之处。
【小题2】“cross out”在句中是把这个名字直接“删去”的意思，因此选C，意思是“消除，去除”。
【小题3】根据第三段结尾“We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we’re working on fit into the larger picture. If they don’t, we should drop them and move to something else.”可知，虽然细节重要，但是也不能太过于关注，要是这个细节不是特别的重要，就应当跳过，转向其他的方面。因此符合C项的意思即：“不要在细节上走的太远而失去了自己的目标。”
【小题4】根据最后一段中“But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact position of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary.”可知，成功是因为我们知道自己的目标位置，这样就在必要的时候做出判断。所以有了目标就可以确定哪些细节可以暂时忽略不计。因此选D。