单选题 Anyone who has searched for a job fresh out of college knows how difficult it is to get that first job. Sending out hundreds of resumes, only to get a few interviews in the end—if you"re lucky!—and if you"re very lucky, eventually there"s a job offer on the table. Should you grasp it, or wait for something better to come along the way?
It depends on whether you are a "maximizer" or a "satisficer". Maximizers want to explore every possible option before choosing a job. They gather every stick of information in the hope of making the best possible decision. If you are a satisficer, however, you make decisions based on the evidence at hand.
Simply put, satisficers are more likely to cut their job search short and take the first job offer. Maximizers are more likely to continue searching until a better job offer comes along. Which type of approach yields the better payoff?. A maximizer. Specifically, quoting the results of a study of the job search of 548 members of the Class of 2002 by Sheena Iyengar, Rachael Wells, and Barry Schwartz, the maximizers put themselves through more contortions in the job hunt. They applied to twenty jobs, on average, while satisficers applied to only ten, and they were significantly more likely to make use of outside sources of information and support. But it turned out to be worth it: the job offers they got were significantly better, in terms of salary, than what the satisficers got.
Satisficers were offered jobs with an average starting salary of $37,085; the average starting salary offered to maximizers was $44,515, more than 20 percent higher. The trouble is, however, that higher pay doesn"t make maximizers a happier group than satisficers. In fact, maximizers were significantly more likely than satisficers to be unhappy with the offers they accepted.
Evidently, being a maximizer can help you earn more income, but that income doesn"t buy more happiness, as the maximizer"s likely to agonize over the prospect of a better job offer out there he or she missed. Maximizers may have objectively superior outcomes, but they"re so busy obsessing about all the things that they could have had, they tend to be less happy with the outcomes they do get.

单选题 What is implied in the first two paragraphs?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 推断题。根据题干关键词定位到第一、二段。第一段结尾提到“拿到了第一个工作offer,是果断接受还是等待更好的机会”，第二段开头给出了解答的依据，即“取决于你是‘完美主义者’还是‘易于满足者”’。同时，从第二段文中信息可知，“易于满足者”选工作时会比较果断，所以，他更趋向于接受找到的第一份工作。A项属于过度推断，原文未提及。第一段提到的是“运气好的话，可以得到几个面试机会”，与“更早”无关，故B项错误。D项推断错误，wait for something better是“易于满足者”的行为。

单选题 According to the Paragraph 3, which of the following is true?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。根据题干关键词定位到第三段。该段倒数第二句意为“他们(完美主义者)平均申请二十个职位，而易于满足者只申请十个”，B项是此句的总结性陈述，故B项为正确答案。A项利用文中的worth进行干扰，文中未提及。C项中的三人是研究者，文中并没有说明他们是“完美主义者”。D项错在all一词，而文中说的是“外部信息来源”。

单选题 The word "contortions" (Para.3) most probably refers to ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 含义题。根据题干关键词定位到第三段。该段第五句句意为“完美主义者在求职之路上会通过更多的______”，第二句提到“完美主义者则倾向于继续求职，直到更好的工作机会来临”，可见他们为了做出最好的决定，不惜绕很多弯路。contortions意为“扭弯，扭歪，扭曲”，故D项“歪曲，被曲解”为正确答案。choices“选择”，occupations“职位”，opportunities“机会”，均不是该单词的正确释义，故排除。

单选题 The passage conveys that higher pay ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。根据题干关键词定位到第四段。该段第二句出现明显的表示转折意义的词however，说明其后的内容是命题的重点，该句句意为“问题是，更高的薪水并没有让完美主义者比易于满足者更快乐”，A项与其表意一致，故为正确答案。B项“鼓励完美主义者追求完美”和D项“有助于完美主义者培养自身的价值感”属于无中生有。C项是对文中最后一段第一句的曲解。也排除。

单选题 Which might be the appropriate title of this passage?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 主旨题。根据题干关键词需纵观全文，但文章第一段段末就指出了全文主旨，即“拿到了第一个工作录用通知单，是果断接受还是等待更好的机会呢”?之后的四段均是对该主旨的具体阐述，具体而全面。故B项“第一份工作来了：接受还是继续等待”为正确答案。A项“更高的薪水：让人更快乐还是不快乐”、C项“信息来源：外部还是手边”和D项“定位你自己：一个完美主义者还是一个易于满足者”均不符合文意，故排除。