EXERCISE 18:Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.
More often than not, you can't just "order up a job" by responding to an online posting and have it delivered in one or two days as if you were buying whatever your heart desires on Amazon. Even as employers are hiring at a higher rate than they have in the last several years, it can often take months to work your way through the job search process. If you are a new graduate yet to receive a job offer, if you recently moved to a new locale with your spouse or partner or if you are unemployed for any other reason, you may find success in your job search by spending time volunteering at a nonprofit organization.
Both the nonprofit and for-profit worlds need people with many of the same talents. The best volunteer jobs for you to consider are ones where the experience you acquire will be applicable in the "for-pay" position you want to attain. It's often the case that once you display your passion for the organization and its mission, and have demonstrated your abilities, you'll earn strong consideration when a paying position opens up that can benefit from your talents. Even if you don't have a path to employment at the place you volunteer, by highlighting your volunteer experience on your resume, you can demonstrate that you haven't been wasting your time away staying at home watching the grass grow.
There are a few strategies you might adopt when considering at which organization you'll want to volunteer. You' ll probably want to make a priority of volunteering to do what you've already done, or want to do, in the for-profit sector. Alternatively, however, it might make sense to volunteer to do something where you can turn an area of professional weakness into a new strength. Remember, as well, that nonprofit organizations maintain strong relationships with their corporate sponsors, and you might look for a volunteer position that would enable you to be that nexus point between the two. And, especially if you are recently out of school, you should look for positions that let you learn about an occupation, a field of interest or an industry.
As you try to determine what you want to volunteer to do, and where you want to do it, make three lists: your marketable skills, the roles you seek and the kinds of charitable organizations you would want to support. For example, perhaps your skills cluster around accounting, marketing or event planning. Think about how these might come in handy for organizations that need financial help figuring out how to brand the organization to attract other volunteers or donors or run anything from charitable golf tournaments to gala dinners.
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Question 110: What is the author's main purpose in the passage?
- To explain why volunteer work is always beneficial to volunteers.
- To advice unemployed people to do voluntary work.
- To prove that people can have a good job via doing volunteer work.
- To describe the procedure to have a profit job.
Question 111: According to the first passage, the following should spend time volunteering at a nonprofit organization, EXCEPT _ .
A. employers B. emigrants C. the jobless D. new graduates Question 112: As mentioned in paragraph 2, what should the volunteers pay attention to when searching for an unpaid job?
- They should not mention what voluntary jobs they have done in the resume.
- They should merely display their abilities when doing the for-pay jobs.
- The best type of volunteer work should be relevant to the one they want to get wages.
- The employers may think you have been wasting time doing nonprofit jobs.
Question 113: The word "priority" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to________ _.
A. precedence B. unimportance C. demonstration D. preference
Question 114: What does the phrase "the two" in paragraph 3 refer to?
- volunteer jobs and for-profit jobs
- volunteer jobs and their organizations
- unpaid jobs and corporate sponsors
- nonprofit organizations and corporate sponsors
Question 115: What can be inferred from paragraph 3?
- Doing the voluntary work that you're not good at is not a good idea.
- Volunteering is a perfect time to change your weak points into the new good ones.
- Keeping contacts with corporate sponsors will help you to have a good-paid job in the future.
- It's ideal for graduates to choose the positions similar to the jobs they have learnt.
Question 116: The phrase "marketable skills" in the last paragraph mostly means______ _.
- the practical skills you can learn from selling things at the markets.
- the technical skills for a particular job.
- the useful skills that make an employer want to give you a job.
- the skills you have been taught at schools.
Question 117: Which of the following could best describe the author's attitude about volunteering when being unemployed?
A. approval B. humorous C. skeptical D. disapproval
