Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do-especially in tight job market.

Bob Crossley,a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day."It's amazing how many candidates eliminate themselves,"he says."Resumes arrive with faults.Some candidates don't bother to spell the company's name correctly.Once I see a mistake,I refuse the candidates,"Crossley concludes,"If they cannot take care of these details,why should we trust them with a job?"

Can we pay too much attention to details?Absolutely not.

Perfectionists struggle over little things instead of something larger they work toward."To keep from losing the forest for the trees,"says Charles Garfield,the professor at the University of California,San Francisco,"We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we're working will influence the larger picture.If they don't,we should drop them and move to something else."

Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA."The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off-course 90percent of the time,"says Garfield."But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact position of our goal.This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary."Knowing where to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.

Again and again,we see that by doing little things within our grasp well,large rewards follow.

1. Where does Garfield work?
2. What does he do there?
3. Which Apollo mission was he involved with?
4. Was he involved with the Challenger?
5. What made a successful landing of the Apollo II likely?
6. Is it important to know where you want to go?
7. What does that allow us to judge?
8. What's Bob Crossley an expert in?
9. What type of apps does he see every day?
10. How come he sees them?
11. What do candidates do to themselves?
12. What do their resumes arrive with?
13. Can you give an example of one?
14. What does Bob do if he sees a mistake?
15. Does he trust them with a job?
16. What does Bob want them to be able to take care of?
17. Is it possible to pay too much attention to them?
18. Where does Garfield teach?
19. Where's that?
20. Should we care how details influence the larger picture?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. NASA
2. he's a computer scientist
3. The Apollo II
4. unknown
5. they knew the exact position
6. yes
7. the importance of tasks
8. human-resources
9. job applications
10. it's part of his job
11. eliminate themselves
12. faults
13. spell the company's name wrong
14. refuses the candidates
15. no
16. details
17. Absolutely not
18. University of California
19. San Francisco
20. yes

Question: One of my friends Fred did very 1ittle work when he was a student. He spent more time drinking in bars than working in the library. Once, we had to take an important exam. The exam had a hundred questions. To each question, we had to write "Right" or "Wrong". The night before the exam, Fred was watching TV and drinking. He usua1ly worried a lot the night before the exam. But on that night he looked quite relaxed. He told me what he would do." It's very easy," he said to me, "There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty right answers to pass the exam. I'll bring a coin with me and throw it to decide answers. I' m sure I'll get half the questions right in this way. "During the exam, Fred sat down and really threw the coin for half an hour when he was writing down his answers. Then he 1eft half an hour before the others. The next day he saw the teacher on the playground. "Good morning, Mr. Wu," he said, "Have you checked the papers? Have I passed?" The teacher 1ooked at him and smiled, "Ah, it's you, Fred. One moment, please." Then he put his hand into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it , "I'm very sorry, Fred. You _ ." 1. Who is their friend?
2. What is his vice?
3. Where should he have been?
4. Doing what?
5. Is there a test?
6. A significant one?
7. How many options are there?
8. And questions in total?
9. Did he prepare for it?
10. What was he doing?
11. Was he nervous?
12. What was he going to bring?
13. Why?
14. What would he do with it?
15. Was he confident about this?
16. What did he think would happen?
17. How many is that?
18. Did end up doing this?
19. Who does he see later?
20. How does he tell him his score? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Fred
2. drinking in bars
3. in the library
4. working
5. yes
6. yes
7. two
8. a hundred
9. no
10. watching TV and drinking
11. no
12. a coin
13. to decide answers
14. throw it
15. yes
16. he would get half the questions right
17. fifty
18. no
19. the teacher
20. He threw a coin in the air

Q: CHAPTER IV

IN THE GYMNASIUM

"Company attention! Carry arms! Present arms! Shoulder arms! Forward march!"

Captain Jack Rover, assisted by Lieutenant Fred Rover and his other officers, was drilling Company C in a corner of the gymnasium of Colby Hall. It was two days after the adventure on the Rick Rack River, and it was still raining, so that drilling in the open was almost out of the question.

The four cadets who had taken part in the rescue of John Franklin and his son Phil had explained the situation to Captain Dale on their return to the school and had been warmly praised by that old West Point military man for their bravery.

It may be mentioned here that Captain Dale had been in charge of the school since Colonel Colby had volunteered for the war and gone to France to fight.

Many of the cadets hated the rain and hoped it would soon clear. They loved drilling in the open far more than when held indoors, and they also wished to get at baseball and other Spring sports.

"It's a shame it doesn't let up," remarked Gif Garrison, after the drilling had come to an end and the rifles had been put away in their cases along the wall. Gif was a big youth, and the recognized head of many of the athletic sports.

"Well, we have to take such matters as they come," returned Spouter Powell, running his hand through his heavy brush of hair. "Were it not for the gentle rains, and the dews later on, the fields and slopes of the hills would not be clothed in the verdant green which all true lovers of nature so much admire. Instead we might have a bleak barrenness, a dissolution which would appall----"

1. Company C
2. Captain Jack Rover
3. No
4. in a corner of the gymnasium of Colby Hall
5. 2 days
6. Yes
7. John Franklin
8. his son Phil
9. four cadets
10. Captain Dale
11. unknown
12. Yes
13. rifles
14. in their cases
15. No
16. baseball
17. Colonel Colby
18. for the war
19. No
20. No

Numbered questions:
1. Who was marching?
2. led by whom?
3. was it sunny?
4. where were they being drilled?
5. how long after their recent adventure?
6. was someone rescued?
7. who?
8. who else?
9. by whom?
10. who did they talk to?
11. were there weapons?
12. were they praised for their rescue?
13. what kind of weapons?
14. where were they now?
15. was the weather liked?
16. what sports wanted to be played?
17. who went to france?
18. why?
19. was gif small?
20. were they drilling outside?