小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:D
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小题1:考查学生对信息进行加工和处理的能力。第1段提到：Obviously I’d be overqualified
but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges…, 此外，
文章最后也提到：I was also short of cash. 故选B。
小题2:考查学生对信息进行加工和处理的能力。第1段提到：I could see myself being
cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. “……在危急时刻能应付自如的人，做保安其素质当然
绰绰有余了”，故选C。
小题3:考查细节。第2段提到：Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. … Mine wa
s the only one that lasted a minute and a half. 故选Ａ。
小题4:考查推理能力。最后一段提到：Actually, such jobs … demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. 这类工作需要有一种基本的责任意识，而惯于空想者没有这种意识，故选C。
小题5:考查概括能力。第3段提到作者认为面试官的结束语（You’ve failed the
psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.）反映了他缺乏关爱、无动于衷（His
closing statement, I thought, revealed (揭示) a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as
a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway.）。