One of tests used by a company to enroll¹ fresh blood helps you know whether you stand the trial from yourself. 

 

In a stormy night, you drive your car through a stop where three people are waiting for a bus: a dying and poor old man, a doctor who is your benefactor²（恩人） because he saved your life so that you are eager to render back, and a woman or a man who is your dreamgirl or your dreamboy and likely dissapears from your life once you miss the chance. Unfortunately, there is just room for one person in your car. Which one would you pick up? Then give your reasons. 

 

Think it over before looking at the following text. 

 

I have no idea whether it is a characteristic test, because every answer has its reason. The dying old man should be first helped,however, his final destination is death. It's reasonable for you to pick up the doctor first--your benefactor and is a good chance to reciprocate³（报答，互换） what he did for you. 

 

Meanwhile, some people think it available to render the doctor back in someday in future. And if you miss the chance, you will never meet such an attractive person. 

 

Only one of two hundred people was hired. He wrote his answer without providing his reason: "Give the key of my car to the doctor, and let him take the old man to the hospital. But I wait in the stop for the bus with my dreamboat（梦中人，爱人） together." 

 

Every acquaintance of mine regarded it as the best answer but nobody (including me) realized it at first. 

 

It is caused by our idea of not giving up the advantage (the car key) we have had? Sometimes, if we abandon some of our parochialism（狭隘）, advantages, and intransigence⁴（不妥协）, we can get more.

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