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The days of Europeans relaxing in the cafe with a newspaper and a seemingly endless cup of coffee appear to be numbered.A new English expression is popular in Europe these days:“coffee to go.”

 “Five or ten years ago it was much more normal to sit in a cafe for several hours than it is nowadays,”says Joann,who works in a central Berlin coffee bar owned by the Canadian coffee and bakery chain Tim’s.

“There is a trend towards a more fast-paced life.But people still act surprised  when you ask if the coffee is‘to go’.You mean I can take it with me? they ask..”

“Europe is often five or eight years behind trends in America,”says Joann.“In the States.‘coffee to go’is part of everyday life.”

Owing in part to Starbucks,it appears to be very much part of everyday life in many other countries too.

The Seattle-based group compete with a growing number of global chains in attempting to reshape coffee drinking cultures in regions including Asia and the Middle East.

The US is the model for continental Europe’s new“coffee to go”culture:Each of the new cafe bars offers bagels,muffins,brownies and cookies to go with the coffee.

But then,“coffee to go’’might sound a little odd to English ears used to the words “takeaway”or take one.

It does sum up the brisker pace of life since the city resumed its status as the German capital following the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.

As one more sign of the changing times,one of Berlin’s most venerable(古老而庄重的)coffee houses,cafe Einstein,has followed the trend by opening a small chain of coffee shops across the city.

Taking coffee,slowly and in decorous(端正的)surroundings,has been a feature of European coffee houses,particularly in German speaking countries,for decades.

For the elderly citzens of Vienna it amounts to a ritual(仪式)when they gather in coffee houses around the city for a cup of their favovrite drink and a piece of rich,creamy cake.

1.From the passage,we can see that      .

A、“coffee to go” springs in Europe these days

B、Europe is often a few years before trends in America

C、America often follows Europe’s “coffee to go”culture

D、it’s easy to reshape coffee drinking cultures in the Middle East

2.Every new cafe bar offers some        to go with the coffee

A、food     B、newspaper     C、drink     D、music

3.More and more Europeans have takeaway coffee because        .

A、Europeans live a more fast-paced life now

B、The coffee is much cheaper

C、Europeans are used to taking away the coffee

D、the coffee is easy to take away

4.The characteristic of European coffee houses is        .

A、“coffee to go ”as part of daily life

B、sitting in a cafe bar for several hours

C、having coffee slowly in a pleasant atmosphere

D、taking away coffee in a hurry

 

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Dogs have an understanding of fair play and become angry if they feel that another dog is getting a better deal, a new study has found.

The study looked at how dogs react when a companion is rewarded for the same trick in an unequal way. Friederike Range, a researcher at the University of Vienna in Austria, and her colleagues did a series of experiments with dogs who knew how to respond to the command “give the paw “. The dogs were normally happy to repeatedly give the paw, whether they got a reward or not. But that changed if they saw that another dog was being rewarded with a piece of food, while they received nothing.

“We found that the dogs hesitated significantly longer when obeying the command to give the paw,” the researchers write. The unrewarded dogs eventually stopped cooperating.

Scientists have long known that humans pay close attention to inequity. But researchers always assumed that animals didn’t share the trait. “The argument was that this is a uniquely human phenomenon,” says Frans de Waal, a professor of psychology at Emory University in Atlanta.

That changed in 2003 when he and a colleague did a study on monkeys. The monkeys had to hand a small rock to researchers to get a piece of cucumber in return. They were happy to do this. But if they saw that another monkey was getting a more delicious reward, a grape, for doing the same job, they would throw away the food and rock, and at some point just stopped performing.

In that experiment, the monkeys considered the fairness of two different types of payment. But when Range and her colleagues did a similar study with their trained dogs, testing to see if dogs would become upset if they only got dark bread when other dogs received sausage, they found that as long as the dogs got some kind of food payment, even if it wasn’t the most delicious kind, the animals would play along.

1.How did the dogs in Range’s study react to the order of “giving the paw”?

A.They took the order even without being rewarded.

B.They took the order only when rewarded.

C.They turned a deaf ear to repeated orders.

D.They hesitated longer when given repeated orders.

2. The research by Frans De Waal in 2003 ___________.

A.originated from Range’s research on dogs.

B.showed that animals do pay attention to inequity.

C.began the argument that only humans are aware of inequity.

D.was conducted to find out how monkeys reacted to humans’ orders.

3. Some monkeys in the research become angry because they found another monkey _______.

A.was given less work.

B.was given more food.

C.was given the same type of food.

D.was given more delicious food.

4. Range found that, compared with monkeys, dogs ____________.

A.care more about whether they are rewarded.

B.care less about what they are rewarded with.

C.care more about what they are ordered to do.

D.care less about who gives them orders.

5. What is the main idea of the passage?

A.Animals have various ways to show their anger.

B.Dogs are less intelligent than monkeys.

C.Dogs have a sense of fairness.

D.Most animals want to be rewarded equally.

 

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