2004年考研英语阅读理解PartAText1Text1.PDF

新东方《考研英语历年真题详解及复习指南》 2004 年考研英语阅读理解 Part A Text 1 Text 1 ①Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. ②He searched it with no success but was attracted by the site ’s “personal search agent”. ③It’s an interactive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them when a matching position is posted in the database. ④Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, D.C. ⑤Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening. ⑥“I struck gold,” says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won a position as in-house counsel for a company. ①With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient. ②Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases. ③But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks. ④Narrowing your criteria, for example, may work against you: “Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility，” says one expert. ①For any job search, you should start with a narrow concept—what you think you want to do—then broaden it. ②“None of these programs do that,” says another expert. ③“There’s no career counseling implicit in all of this.” ④Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip service to keep abreast of jobs in a particular database; when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder to check the database again. ⑤“I would not rely on agents for finding everything that is added to a database that might interest me,” says the author of a job-searching guide. ①Some sites design their a