More than great drinks, great rewards

Enjoy all the benefits and more with your membership to our Loyalty Program!

Whenever you pay with your membership account, you’ll earn a Star.

Collect more Stars, earn more rewards.

Three ways to join us

Buy a Starbucks Card handy to create an account.

Track your Stars online or through the mobile app, and we’ll send an email when you’ve earned a reward.

You can also join from your phone.

Download the Starbucks? App.

One of the most exciting benefits of being a member is using our mobile app to: pay for purchases; view your Stars and rewards; access iTunes? Pick of the Week; see current offers.

Or you can join with specially marked coffee purchased at the grocery store.

Enter your Starcode (limit 2 per day).

Look for the Starcode symbol on specially marked Starbucks? products where you buy groceries.

Three levels with increasingly greater rewards

To reach each level in our Loyalty Program, you need to collect more Stars. ( Remember, to earn a Star you must pay with a registered Starbucks Card. )

Welcome level

To earn your first rewards, just register a Starbucks Card.

Birthday drink or treat on us; birthday coupon (优惠券) for 15% off a purchase at StarbucksStore.com.

Green level

Collect 5 Stars within 12 months and you’ll be in the Green level.

What is included in the Welcome level plus

★Free in-store refills (续杯) on hot or iced brewed coffee or tea

Gold level

Collect 30 Stars within 12 months and you’re at the Gold level.

What is included in the Green, level plus

★A free food or drink item after another 12 Stars earned

★Personalized Gold Card

1.Which of the following is a way you can apply for membership?

A. To enter a Starcode from specially marked Starbucks? products.

B. To buy a Starbucks Card over the phone.

C. To update the Starbucks? App from the official website.

D. To buy a drink at a Starbucks on weekends.

2.With the Starbucks? App, you can ________.

A. change the prices B. earn a Star

C. pay for rewards D. view current offers

3.With a Starbucks Card of Green level, you will get ________.

A. a free cake

B. personalized Green Card

C. free in-store refills

D. all purchases 15% off

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

As we get busy and stressed, we tend to make poor nutritional choices that can actually increase our stress levels and cause other problems. 1. .

Eat Breakfast. You may argue that you’re not hungry yet, that you don’t have time, that lunch will come soon enough, that you need to diet anyway, or that the milk in the coffee you pick up on the way is all the good nutrition you need. 2. You need it.

Choose Green Tea. If you’re a coffee drinker, you may not realize the effects caffeine has on your system. However, you can reduce your stress levels and improve your mental performance throughout the day if you gradually rid yourself of large amounts of caffeine. 3.

Carry a Snack. Having some healthful snacks in your car, office, or purse can help you avoid blood sugar level dips and accompanying mood swings and tiredness. 4. Along these lines, you should always have water handy, as it’s so vital to health and proper physical functioning.

Stock Your Home With Healthy Fare. Even more important than getting the bad stuff out of your house, is getting healthy food in! 5. That way you know you’ll have what you want when you need it, and you won’t have to stress over what to eat each night; you’ll already have thought of it! (This makes eating at home much easier, too!)

A. Certain energy bars all contain good nutrition.

B. Here are some tips for getting good nutrition even under stress.

C. You can easily have a hard-boiled egg on your way out the door.

D. A relatively healthy way to do that is to replace coffee with green tea.

E. But skipping this meal makes it harder to maintain stable blood sugar levels.

F. The best way is to plan a menu of healthy meals at the beginning of each week.

G. After a few weeks, they’ll become a habit and your body will feel the difference.

Here are some of our favorite study tips that will help any student study smarter, not harder:

Recite As You Study

Reciting — saying things out loud should first take place as you read through each paragraph or section. Test yourself. This will help you to understand as well as learn faster because it is more active than reading or listening. It will also help you to notice your mistakes and the topics you have trouble understanding.

Take Fuller Notes

Notes should be in your own words, brief and clear. They should be tidy and easy to read. Writing notes will help you better than just underlining as you read, since it forces you to rewrite ideas in your own words.

Study the Middle

The best time to review is soon after you've learned something. You are more likely to remember the material at the beginning and the end of the lesson, so make sure you focus on the middle when you review.

Sleep on It

Study before going to bed, unless you are very tired. It's easier to remember material you've just learned after sleeping than after an equal period of daytime activity, because your brain continues to think even after you've fallen asleep.

Combine Memory and Understanding

There are two ways to remember: by memorizing and by understanding. Multiplication tables(乘法表), telephone numbers, and math formulas are better learned by memorizing, while ideas are best learned by understanding.

The more ways you have to think about an idea, the more meaning it will have; the more meaningful the learning, the better you can remember it. Pay attention to similarities in ideas and concepts, and then try to understand how they fit in with things you already know. Never be satisfied with anything less than a completely clear understanding of what you are reading. If you are not able to follow the thought, go back to the place where you first got confused and try again.

1.You can notice your mistakes by ________.

A. saying things out aloud B. taking notes

C. studying the middle D. sleeping on it

2.When taking notes, you should ________ to better help you with reading.

A. underline important notes

B. write notes in your own words

C. take down every detail

D. write as quickly as possible

3.The writer advises you to ________ as it is easier for you to remember material.

A. study after a period of activity

B. do some exercise after studying

C. study as soon as you get up

D. study before going to sleep

4.Which of the following is NOT helpful for your understanding?

A. Thinking about an idea in different ways.

B. Relating ideas and concepts with what you already know.

C. Reading from the beginning to the end without stop.

D. Going back to what first made you confused and start again.

The U.S.Postal Service (USPS) is losing billions of dollars a year.The government company that delivers "small mail" is losing out to email and other types of electronic communication.First-class mail amount fell from a high point of 104 million pieces in 2000 to just 64 million pieces by 2014.

Congress permits the 600,000-empIoyee USPS to hold a monopoly (垄断) over first-class and standard mail.The company pays no federal, state or local taxes; pays no vehicle fees; and is free from many regulations on other businesses.Despite these advantages, the USPS has lost $52 billion since 2007, and will continue losing money without major reforms.

The problem is that Congress is preventing the USPS from reducing costs as its sales decline, and is blocking efforts to end Saturday service and close unneeded post office locations.USPS also has a costly union-dominated workforce that slows the introduction of new ideas or methods down.USPS workers earn significantly higher payment than comparable private-sector workers.The answer is to privatize the USPS and open postal markets to competition.With the rise of the Internet, the argument that mail is a natural monopoly that needs government protection is weaker than ever.

Other countries facing declining letter amounts have made reforms.Germany and the Netherlands privatized their national postal companies over a decade ago, and other European countries have followed suit.Britain floated shares of the Royal Mail on its stock exchange in 2013.Some countries, such us Sweden and New Zealand, have not privatized their national postal companies, but they have opened them up to competition.

These reforms have driven efficiency improvements in all of these countries.Additional number of workers have been reduced, productivity has risen and consumers have benefited.Also, note that cost-cutting measures—such as closing tone post offices—are good for both the economy and the environment.

Privatization and competition also encourage new changes.When the USPS monopoly over "extremely urgent" mail was stopped in 1979, we saw an explosion in efficient overnight private delivery by firms such as FedEx.

The government needs to wake up to changing technology, study postal reforms abroad and let businessmen reinvent our out-of-date postal system.

1.What do we know about the USPS?

A.Its great competitor is the delivery firm FedEx.

B.It is an old public service open to competitions.

C.Its employees don't pay federal, state or local taxes.

D.It has complete control of first-class and standard mail.

2.The author mentions some other countries in Paragraph 4 to __________.

A.explain the procedures of reform to the USPS

B.show the advantages of private postal services

C.set some examples for the government to learn from

D.prove the situation is very common around the world

3.The author probably that the USPS __________.

A.needs government’s protection as ever

B.can work together with other businesses

C.must be replaced by international companies

D.should be sold out and become a private service

4.Which of the following shows the development of ideas in this passage?

A.B.

C.D.

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