It’s become part of the restaurant table setting: knife, fork, napkin and cell phone.

      Distracted (思想不集中的) dining is the new concern with customers constantly texting friends, uploading a Weibo photo of the meal they’re about to chew down or emailing the boss. For many smart-phone users, it’s hard just to focus on the meal and company at hand.

      Now, one restaurant in Los Angeles is giving diners a reason to turn off the digital world, by offering customers willing to check (寄存) their phones at the door a 5-percent discount on their bill. Owner and chef Mark Gold of Eva Restaurant, located on Beverly Boulevard near N. Gardner Street, hopes this gives customers a way to truly sit back and relax, enjoy their meal and actually talk with friends and family in person.

      “For us, it’s really not about people disturbing other guests. Eva is home, and we want to create that environment of home, and we want people to connect again,” he explained. “It’s about two people sitting together and just connecting, without the distraction of a phone, and we’re trying to create an atmosphere where you come in and really enjoy the experience and the food and the company.”

      Gold said applying the suggestion reminds him to avoid cell phone usage, too. “I’m guilty of it as well. When my wife and I go to dinner it seems like the cell phone is part of the table setting now. Every table you look at, it’s a wine glass, the silverware and the cell phone,” he joked.

      The husband and wife team runs Eva, a 40-person space with European flair. Gold said a little less than half take advantage of the deal, and no one has gotten upset about it.

      “I think once the server approaches the table and they’re presented with the offer, they like the idea of actually talking to each other again,” he said.

1.When having meal in Eva Restaurant, we are not offered             on the table.[学,

A. forks                        B. cellphones                       C. napkins          D. knives

2.Why does Gold think people should not use cellphones at table?

A. Because it can cause health problems.

B. Because it will disturb other customers.

C. Because it can get a 5-percent discount on the customers’ bills.

D. Because it may prevent people communicating with their companions.

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Many people would like to upload a photo of their food before they eat nowadays.

B. People are forbidden to use cellphones in Eva Restaurant.

C. More than half of the customers in Eva Restaurant have enjoyed the discount.

D. People can easily connect with each other anytime without using cellphones.

4.What can be the best title of the passage?

A. No Cellphone at Table!

B. Focus on Your Cellphone!

C. Eva Restaurant – Home to Customers.

D. Talk Face to Face.

 

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

Nowadays lots of students ask their parents for money to buy things they like. For me, to ask for money is like entering a(n) _36__. I learned this from  37  .

       Last year my mother told me that the _ 38   way I would get a driver’s license before I turned eighteen depended on _ 39   I paid for the classes myself. “What?” I asked in _ 40   . But I knew _ 41   that my reasoning would have no_ 42   on the situation,  43__ by the look on my mother’s face.

      Three weeks later, I started working _ 44  a hostess at a factory, twice a week. A month later I paid $ 270 for driving lessons, and then over $ 20 to _ 45   my permit test. My pockets were empty _ 46   as soon as they were filled.

       My mother thought that I’d be _ 47   to do things without her help. The funny thing was that even though I was totally _ 48   in the beginning, I truly appreciated it, _ 49   if I had just been handed bills from her.

       When I realized that my mother wasn’t going to _ 50   something like a driver’s license, at first, it seemed as if she had __51__ an immovable block before me and I would never _ 52   it. But my mother was __53 _. She knew that I wanted a luxury(奢侈品)but _ 54   me to get it. That is as _ 55   as this ---- if I really want it, I’ll find a way to get it myself.

1.A. office                    B. prison                      C. battlefield                D. bank

2.A. facts                     B. experience                C. lessons                     D. quarrels

3.A. best                      B. proper                      C. same                        D. only

4.A. whether              B. that                          C. how                         D. when

5.A. trouble                  B. disbelief                   C. comfort                    D. horror

6.A. hurriedly            B. jokingly                   C. instantly                   D. surprisingly

7.A. effect                 B. sense                        C. effort                       D. result

8.A. judged          B. judging            C. to judge           D. being judged

9.A. with                   B. for                           C. like                          D. as

10.A. pass                    B. take                         C. hold                         D. gain

11.A. almost                 B. even                        C. still                         D. yet

12.A. ready                  B. likely                       C. unhappy                  D. unable

13.A. terrified               B. annoyed                   C. tired                        D. disturbed

14.A. more than           B. rather than                C. no more                   D. no longer

15.A. pay                         B. raise                        C. buy                          D. support

16.A. laid                         B. lay                           C. lied                          D. lain

17.A. get about             B. get by                     C. get through               D. get over

18.A. wise                    B. mistaken                  C. strict                        D. kind

19.A. dared                  B. hoped                      C. encouraged               D. expected

20.A. well                   B. far                           C. soon                        D. simple

 

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