题源: The Washington Post 题材:社会生活
Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do—especially in a tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resource expert notices this in the job application that comes across his desk every day. "It"s
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how many candidates cancel themselves," he says.
"Resumes arrive with stains. Some candidates don"t
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to spell the company"s name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I
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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, professor at the University of California, San Francisco, "we must
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ask ourselves how the details we"re working on fit into the large picture."
Garfield
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this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. "The Apollo Ⅱ moon
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was slightly off-course 90 percent of the time," says Garfield. "But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the
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coordinates (坐标) of our goal. This allowed us to make
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as necessary." Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the significance of the every task we
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.
Often we believe what accounts for others" success is some special secret or a lucky break. But rarely is success so
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. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.
A. addicts F. compares K. launch
B. adjustments G. conserves L. mysterious
C. administration H. constantly M. precise
D. amazing I. dominant N. probably
E. bother J. eliminate O. undertake
答案:K[解析] 名词辨析题。空格前为The Apollo Ⅱ moon,后为系动词was,故空格处应填入一个名词作 主语的中...