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| As a businessman he was a success, but as a husband he was________failure, so their marriage ended in________failure. |
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| —I'm green at everything. —Don't worry.________you get older, you will get more experience. |
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| —You are late again, Tom? —Sorry, but I got________a heavy traffic jam. |
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| The whole area was________by the snow, and the government had to send food there by helicopter. |
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| —I wonder how to________to him when I get a present from my foreign friend Jack. —Of course say "Thank you". |
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| Our teacher looked here and there on our playground________ looking for something. |
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| —Why are the two students standing at the gate of the teachers'office? —They________to each other in class and________. |
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| —Your daughter looks too thin for her height. —Yes.She is too________about food.There is no way of making her fat. |
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| My friend Bob just bought an apartment in a suburb of Beijing last week, which is much smaller than ours but is three times________expensive. |
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| —Tommy, do the dishes. —Mum, it's a girl's job.I would rather________the floor. |
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| With the electricity________because of the road repairs, the whole building was completely dark. |
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| All that this young man dreams of is to make________and live________. |
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Oil prices have risen________32 percent since last year, ________a record $84.65 a barrel  on Nov.9. |
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| He hurried to the booking office only________that all the tickets had been sold out. |
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| "It's my own fault." Carl Fenter pulled his jacket closer against the abnormal bite of cold morning wind. "The re  st of the family is home, where it's__1__."Just another  one of his__2__ideas-a big tamale (玉米粉蒸肉) feast after tonight's Christmas Eve service at the church-and look where it landed hi  m:waiting in a line 50 people deep.Who would have guessed that the tamale in every shop in the city would be sold out the day before Christmas?But they__3__, as Carl knew.He had been driving all over El Paso that morning.__4__to bring home tamales, Carl tried one last shop, an old favorite out in Canutillo. When he arrived, a fresh batch (一炉) was__5__off the steamer in 45 minutes.__6__at the end of the snaking line of tamaleseekers, he watched the woman in front of him__7__her jacket to cover her shivering youngster.It wasn't long before she, too, __8__in the biting wind.After only a moment's__9__, Carl took off his own jacket and offered it to the__1  0__mother.Together, they__11__when the line slowly moved forward at last, and smiling people exited the shop carrying steamy bags.__12__, Carl got inside the door and__13__closer to the counter, the woman now first in line."Sorry folks, " the clerk announced, "that's the last of the tamales.""__14__!" Carl groaned (抱怨) with everyone else__15__behind him. "__16__, "stressed the man at the counter, "we'll have a final batch ready__17__, oh, about two hours." Defeated, Carl backed away, but the young mother grabbed his arm. "You'r  e leaving?""I__18__, "Carl glanced at his watch."I promised to put up luminarias (传统圣诞灯) at my church." "I'll get your order of tamales and bring them to your house." Carl's brow furrowed "I couldn't ask you to do that." "But it's__19__I can do.You lent me your coat." Her smile overrode (推翻) his objections."Just give me your address." She and her little girl settled in for the long wait. And at__20__noon on Christmas Eve, they delivered four dozen fragrant tamales-along with Carl's brown jacket-to his home. | ||||
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| How Much to Tip You're out to dinner.The food is delicious and the service is fine.You decide to leave a big fat tip.Why?The answer may not be as simple as you think. Tipping, psychologists have found, is not just about service.Instead, studies have shown that tipping can be affected by psychological reactions to a series of different factors from the waiter's choice of words, to how they carry themselves while taking orders, to the bill's total.Even ho  w much waiters remind customers of themselves can determine how much change they pocket by the end of the night."Studies before have shown that mimicry (模仿) brings into positive feelings for the mimicker, "wrote Rick van Baaren, a social psychology professor."These studies show that people who are being mimicked become more generous toward the person who mimicks them." So Rick van Baaren divided 59 waiters into two groups.He requested that half serve with a phrase such as, "Coming up!"Those in the other half were instructed to repeat th  e orders and preferences back to the customers.Rick van Baaren then compared their takehome pay.The results were clear-it pays to mimic your customer.The copycat (模仿者) waiters earned almost double the amount of tips to the other group. Leonard Green and Joel Myerson, psychologists at Washington University in St.Louis, found the generosity of a tipper may be limited by his bill.After research on the 1,000 tips left for waiters, cabdrivers, hair stylists, they found tip percentages in these three areas dropped as customers' bills went up.In fact, tip percentages appear to plateau (稳定期) when bills topped $100 and a bill for $200 made the worker gain no bigger percentage tip than a bill for $100. "That's also a point of tipping, " Green says."You have to give a little extra to the cabdriver for being there to pick you up and something to the waiter for being there to serve you.If they weren't there, you'd never get any service.So part of the idea of a tip is for just being there." |
| 1. Apart from service, how many other factors affecting the customers'tipping are mentioned in the passage? |
| A. 1. B. 2. C. 3. D. 4. |
| 2. These studies show that________. |
| A. tipping can be affected by physical reactions to many different waiters B. people who are being mimicked usually tip less to the person who mimics them C. the mimic waiters can get almost twice as much money as those who don't mimick others D. mimicry makes the mimicker feel bad |
| 3. According to the passage, which of the following will be likely to show the right change of the tip percentages? |
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| 4. We know from the passage that the writer seems to________. |
| A. object to Mr Green's idea about tipping B. think part of Mr Green's explanation is reasonable C. give his generous tip to waiters very often D. support the opinions of Mr Green and Rick van Baaren about tipping |