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Sir, I was halfway through Professor Raj Persaud"s article "What"s the tipping point" (Financial Times
Weekend, April 9-l0) when it occurred to me that what I was reading was not ironic (讽刺的). If Prof
Persaud wants to know why Americans tip in restaurants, he need only ask the first American he meets in
London.
Americans tip in restarts for one reason, and one reason only: we tip to supplement (补贴) the salary of
restaurant workers. Quality of service does not enter into it, beyond the fact that one may tip a bit less for
poor service, or a little more for good service.
Not tipping at all in a non-fast-food restaurant is not a choice. In the US, one used to tip about 15 per
cent for dining in a family-style restaurant or in an up-market (高档的) restaurant. Here, in San Francisco
Bay area restaurants, we me encouraged to tip 20 per cent or more, to help restart workers live in this very
expensive area.
After eating at an Italian restart in my city, I left a tip of 20 per cent on the non-tax part of our dinner bill.
It was expected. There is nothing more complicated (复杂的) than that about Americas tipping in restaurants.
Ward Hoffman,
Palo Alto, CA 94306, US
From Mr. Philip McBride Johnson.
Sir, I agree with most of Raj Persaud"s opinion about the doubtful value of tipping, but with one exception
(例外). Tips can be very useful when one is a repeat customer or diner.
It is only when the tipper is a stranger and likely to remain so that the system does not work to his or her
advantage. But frequent a hotel or a restaurant, always tip a bit more, and the difference in service and
treatment will ba easily felt.
Phfiip McBnde Johnson,
Great Falls, VA 22066, US
B. Americans don"t tip in non fast-food restaurants.
C. Tipping in US upmarknt restarts is unnecessary.
D. How to tip in the United States is not complicated.
B. diners receive better service if they frequent a restaurant
C. repeat dinners may get good service if they tip a bit more
D. the tipping system works to the advantage of new customers
B. believes tipping improves quality of service
C. wats to ask Hoffman about tipping m the US
D. thinks tipping a bit mom one can get good service
B. handbook
C. book review
D. newspaper
答案
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试题【阅读理解。From Mr. Ward Hoffman. Sir, I was halfway through Professor Raj Persau】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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immediately when it"s sunny md brighten when a passing cloud blocks the sun.
A wall of windows at a University of Pennsylvania engineering budding has built-in blinds (百页窗)
controlled by a computer program that follows the sun"s path.
Buildings are getting smarter-and the next generation of building materials expected to do even more.
Windows could catch the sun"s energy to heat water. Sensors that measure the carbon dioxide breathed
out by people in a mom could determine whether the air conditioning needs to be turned up.
Many new materials and technology have been designed in the last 15 years. They now being used in a
wave of buildings designed to save as much energy as possible. They include old ideas, like"green roofs,"
where a belt of plants on a roof helps the building keep heat in winter and stay cool in summer, and new
ideas, like special coating for windows that lets light in, but keeps heat out.
As technologies such as sensors become cheaper, their uses spread.
The elevators (电梯) at Seven World Trade Center, which is under construction in New York, use a
system that groups people traveling to nearby floor into the same elevator, thus saving elevator stops.
People who work in the building will enter it by swiping (刷) ID cards that will tell the elevators their floor;
readouts will then tell them which elevator to use. The building also has windows with a coating that blocks
heal while letting in light.
More new building materials and technology are in development. A Philadelphia building farm is now
working on"smart wrap" that uses tiny solar collectors to catch the sun"s energy and transmitters (传感器)
the width of a human hair to move it. They are expected to change the face of the construction industry in
the next ten years or so.
B. "Smart wrap" that catches the sun"s energy
C. Sunlight-measuring sensors that control lights
D. Window coating that lets light in, but keeps heat out
B. teach people how to use their ID cards
C. make people stay very cool in summer
D. help people go traveling in the building
B. smart wrap
C. the sun"s energy
D. a transmitter
B. Buildings Are Getting More Sunlight
C. Buildings Are Lacking in Much Energy
D. Buildings Are Using Cheaper Materials
I had to drive back and forth to get my car into the 2 space. That left 3 enough room to open the door.
Then one day I arrived home 4 , and just as I turned off the engine, the yellow Oldsmobile entered its
space-too close to my car, 5 . At last I had a chance to meet the driver. My patience had 6 and
I shouted at her, "Can"t
you see you"re not 7 me enough space? Park farther over." Banging (猛推) open door into 8 , the driver
shouted back: "Make me!" 9 this she stepped out of the garage. Still each time she got home first, she parked
too close to my 10 . Then one day, I thought,"What can I do?" I soon found 11 . The next day the woman 12
a note on her windshield(挡风玻璃):
Dear yellow Oldsmobile,
I"m sorry my mistress(女主人)shouted at yours the other day. She"s been sorry about it. I know Because
she doesn"t sing anymore while 13 . It wasn"t like her to scream 14 . Fact is, she"d just got bad news and was
taking it out on you two. I 15 you and your mistress will 16 her.
Yours neighbor,
Blue Buick
When I went to the 17 the next morning, the Oldsmobile was gone, but there was a mote on my windshield:
Dear Blue Buick,
My mistress is sorry, too. She parked so 18 because she just learned to drive. We will park much farther
over after this. I"m glad we can be 19 now.
Your neighbor,
Yellow Oldsmobile
After that, whenever Blue Buick 20 Yellow Oldsmobile on the road, their drivers waved cheerfully and
smiled.
| ( )1. A. driven ( )2. A. complete ( )3. A. quite ( )4. A. hurriedly ( )5. A. as usual ( )6. A. run into ( )7. A. keeping ( )8. A. mine ( )9. A. For ( )10. A. room ( )11. A. an instruction ( )12. A. put ( )13. A. working ( )14. A. on end ( )15. A. hope ( )16. A. comfort ( )17. A. office ( )18. A. crazily ( )19. A. neighbor ( )20. A. followed | B. parked B. close B. nearly B. first B. as planned B. run about B. saving B. hers B. With B. area B. a result B. wrote B. driving B. so long B. know B. help B. flat B. eagerly B. friends B. passed | C. stopped | D. stayed D. fixed D. hardly D. timely D. as yet D. run off D. leaving D. ours D. Upon D. side D. a chance D. discovered D. cooking D. any more D. suggest D. please D. garage D. early D. writers D. greeted |
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society-a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun. "My grandmothers didn"t do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that," said Emils Comette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society. While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have sometimes seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers (生育高峰期出生的人), and the same people who refused their parents" way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old. If you take into consideration feminism (女权主义), a bit of spare money, and better health for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable (必然的). In this society, women over 50 wear red hats and purple(紫色的) clothes, while the women under 50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing. "The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins: "When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn"t go," said Ellen Cooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998. When the ladies started to wear the red hats, they attracted lots of attention. "The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someone else," Cooper said. "Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves." This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything useful. "We"re a ladies" play group. It couldn"t be more simple," added Cooper"s assistant Joe Heywood. | |||
| 1. The underlined word "chapter" in paragraph 2 means _____. | |||
| A. one branch of an organization B. a written agreement of a club C. one part of a collection of poems D. a period in a society"s history | |||
| 2. From the text, we know that the "baby boomers" are a group of people who _____. | |||
| A. have gradually become more noticeable B. are worried about getting old too quickly C. are enjoying a good life with plenty of money to spend D. tried living a different life from their parents when they were young | |||
| 3. It could be inferred from the text that members of the Red Hat Society are _____. | |||
| A. interested in raising money for social work B. programmers who can plan well for their future C. believers in equality between men and women D. good at cooking big meals and taking care of others | |||
| 4. Who set up the Red Hat Society? | |||
| A. Emily Cornette. B. Ellen Cooper. C. Jenny Joseph. D. Joe Heywood. | |||
| 5. Women join the Red Hat Society because _____. | |||
| A. they want to stay young B. they would like to appear more attractive C. they would like to have fun and live for themselves D. they want to be more like their parents | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| Taiwan police cannot decide whether to treat it as an extremely eleven act of stealing or an even elev-ecer cheat (诈骗). Either way, it could be the perfect crime (犯罪), because the criminals are birds-horning pigeons! The crime begins with a telephone message to the owner of a stolen car: if you want the car back, pay up then, the car owner is directed to a park, told where to find a bird cage and how to attach money to the neck of the pigeon inside. Carrying the money in a tiny bag, the pigeon flies off. There have been at least four such pigeon pick-ups in Changwa. What at first seemed like the work of a clever stay-at-home car thief, however, may in face be the work of an even lazier and more inventive criminal mind-one that avoid (避免) not only colleting money but going out to steal the car in the first place. Police officer Chen says that the criminal probably has pulled a double trick: he gets money for things he cannot possibly return. Instead of stealing cars, he lets someone else do it and then waits for the car-owner to place an ad (启事) in the newspaper asking for help. The theory is supported by the fact that, so far, none of the stolen cars have been returned. Also, the amount of money demanded-under 3,000 Taiwanese dollars -seems too little for a car worth many times more. Demands for pigeon-delivered money stopped as soon as the press reported the story. And even if they start again, Chen holds little hope of catching the criminal. "We have more important things to do," he said. | |||
| 1. After the car owner received a phone call. He _____. | |||
| A. went to a certain pigeon and put some money in the bag it carried B. gave the money to the thief and had his car back in a park C. sent some money to the thief by mail D. told the press about it | |||
| 2. The "lazier and more inventive" criminal refers to ______. | |||
| A. the car thief who stays at home B. one of those who put the ads in the paper C. one of the policemen in Changwa D. the owner of the pigeons | |||
| 3. The writer mentions the fact that "none of the stolen cars have been returned" to show _____. | |||
| A. how easily people get fooled by criminals B. what Chen thinks might be correct C. the thief is extremely clever D. the money paid is too little | |||
| 4. The underlined word "they" in the last paragraph refers to _____. | |||
A. criminals | |||
| 5. We may infer from the text that the criminal knows how to reach the car owners because _____. | |||
| A. he reads the ads in the newspaper B. he lives in the same neighborhood C. he has seen the car owners in the park D. he has trained the pigeons to follow them | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| Decision-thinking is not unlike it often matters not only what you think, but also what others think you think what you think they think you think. The mental process (过程) is similar. Naturally, this card game has often been of considerable interest to people who are, by any standards, good thinkers. The great mathematician John von Neumann was one of the founders of game theory. In particular, he showed that all games fall into two classes; there are what he called games of "perfect information", games like chess where the players can"t hide anything or play tricks; they don"t win by chance, but by means of logic and skills. Then there are games of "imperfect information", like poker, in which it is impossible to know in advance that one course of action is better than another. One mistaken idea about business is that it can be treated as a game of perfect information. Quite the reverse Business, life itself are games which we must normally play with very imperfect information. Business decisions are often made with many unknown and unknowable factors (因素), best poker players. But few business people find it comfortable to admit that they are taking a chance, and many still prefer to believe that they are playing chess, not poker. | |||
| 1. The subject discussed in this text is ______. | |||
| A. the process of reaching decisions B. the difference between poker and chess. C. the secret of making good business plans D. the value of information in winning games | |||
| 2. An important factor in a game of imperfect information is _______. | |||
| A. rules B. luck C. time D. ideas | |||
| 3. Which of the following can be used in place of "Quite the reverse"? | |||
| A. Quite right. B. True enough. C. Most unlikely. D. Just the opposite. | |||
| 4. In the writer"s opinion, when making business decisions one should _______. | |||
| A. put perfect information before imperfect information B. accept the existence of unknown factors C. regard business as a game of chess D. mix known and unknown factors |