Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. He searched it with no success but was attracted by the site’s “personal search agent”.【本文的主题词在第二句P.S.A个人搜索工具。看到主题X应该怎么做？问自己X是什么、X作用根据】 It’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.【很好，符合我们的思维，作者马上对X做了定义】 Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, D.C. Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening. “I struck gold,’ says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won a position as in-house counsel for a company. 【更好，这几句是对X能够作用举例论证。逻辑性非常强】
With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient. Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases.【讲了PSA的优势1：省时高效】 But 【刚才是PSA的优势，看到转折词，应该提醒自己了，要说劣势了】although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks.【很好，和我们预期的一样，连专家都说有缺点了】 Narrowing your criteria【讲劣势1，之后显然是“拉虎皮做大旗”，用专家的话来证明其劣势】, for example, may work against you: “Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility.” says one expert.
For any job search, you should start with a narrow concept —— what you think you want to do —— then broaden it. “None of these programs do that,” says another expert. 【劣势1的主人不再仅仅是PSA，而且是所有工作搜索工具，归纳思想】“There’s no career counseling implicit in all of this.” Instead,【好了，都“辨证”的看了优劣了，估计作者要讲怎样辨证的使用PSA了】 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. “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. 【太好了。我们的思路和作者几乎一致了。】
【本段的重心在“辨证使用PSA”。出题点可能就这一个。】
Some sites design their agents to tempt job hunters to return. 【在“开发PSA－PSA－使用PSA”这个关系里，后两个都讲了，现在讲到开发PSA了】When CareerSite’s agent sends out messages to those who have signed up for its service, for example, it includes only three potential jobs —— those it considers the best matches. There may be more matches in the database; job hunters will have to visit the site again to find them —— and they do. 【讲开发者的吸引回访策略1】“On the day after we send our messages, we see a sharp increase in our traffic,” says Seth Peets, vice president of marketing for CareerSite. 【又是用别人的话再次论证此策略之成功】
【本段是关系式里的头把交椅“开发者”，因此，必然会对其策略出题。】
Even【强调词】 those who aren’t hunting for jobs may find search agents worthwhile. 【再次转回使用者，并且扩大使用者的范围。下面一定会论证凭什么扩大这个范围】Some use them to keep a close watch on the demand for their line of work or gather information on compensation to arm themselves when negotiating for a raise. 【的确。】Although happily employed, Redmon【Redmon再次闪亮登场！目的就是进一步证明作者的推理无误】 maintains his agent at CareerBuilder. “You always keep your eyes open,” he says. Working with a personal search agent means having another set of eyes looking out for you.
[A] By searching openings in a job database.
[B] By posting a matching position in a database.
【C】 By using a special service of a database.
[D] By E-mailing his resume to a database.
42. Which of the following can be a disadvantage of search agents?
【和我们看文章的时候分析的出题点一样。就是劣势1。A】
【A】 Lack of counseling.
[B] Limited number of visits.
[C] Lower efficiency.
[D] Fewer successful matches.
43. The expression “tip service” (Line 4, Paragraph 3) most probably means
44. Why does CareerSite’s agent offer each job hunter only three job options?
【果然考策略。题干是策略，考的策略目的。文章很清楚的。】
[A] To focus on better job matches.
【B】 To attract more returning visits.
[C] To reserve space for more messages.
[D] To increase the rate of success.
45. Which of the following is true according to the text?
【这种题目就是“根据本文，可以推理出什么……”，很直接地考推理！】
[A] Personal search agents are indispensable to job-hunters. 【形而上学，明明作者是辨证的。这里怎么这么绝对？注意，如果作者的观点是形而上学的，这个选项就有可能是正确选项】
[B] Some sites keep E-mailing job seekers to trace their demands. 【目的？应该关注该段主题句，是为了增大访问量】
【C】 Personal search agents are also helpful to those already employed. 【好选项。最后一段都是讲它，再不选更待何时！】
[D] Some agents stop sending information to people once they are employed. 【搞反了嘛！】