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Reading Part 2, Section 5 Understanding a longer text （6 questions）
You read a longer text, such as part of a business report, a newspaper article, etc. Then you answer some detailed questions on it.
Example:
| ● Read the article below about careers advice and answer questions 98–103 on the opposite page. ● For questions 98–103, mark one letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet. Keys to unlock path of career fulfillmentIt used to be called vocational guidance. Then it became careers advice and counselling. Since the late 1920s there have been various tests to help guide bewildered and guileless school leavers into job categories suited to their interests and abilities. Hence extroverts have been advised, wisely, to go into sales and marketing, where they thrive on the variability, people-contact and the air of optimism. Introverts, on the other hand, find the quiet work of accounts, stores and engineering, where they can work alone in a less people-orientated, frenetic atmosphere, more to their taste. But good careers advisors need to look at other factors when giving advice. For example, career counselling is flawed if it fails to allow for the possibility of people adapting to, and changing, their jobs once they are in them. Most organisations attempt through various explicit （induction, mentoring, training, appraisal） and implicit （reliance on observation） techniques to mould behaviour into an acceptable pattern. This means that attitudes and even aptitudes of employees may be changed over the first year of employment, sometimes, but not always, in the direction desired by the organisation. Thus what was a ‘fit’ may easily and quickly develop into a misfit and vice versa. Individuals also change their jobs without leaving them. They rearrange furniture, use space and technology differently and personalise different aspects of the job. They can negotiate with colleagues, earn special privileges and use other means to improve their role and output. In this sense, very soon they are doing the job differently from their predecessors, and possibly from the way recommended by the company. However, both adaptation of personal workstyle and attempts to change the way of doing the job are more likely to lead to a higher level of "it" because the changes are usually all attempts to increase "it" |
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