题目内容
Among customers there are different preferences __________ what is attractive.
A.in honor of B.in place of C.in need of D.in terms of
D
【解析】
试题分析:句意:在顾客中,就什么招人喜爱而言,他们有不同的喜好。in honor of为了向……表示敬意;in place of代替;in need of需要;in terms of就……而言,选D。
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Everybody hates it, but everybody does it. A recent report said that 40%of Americans hate tipping. In America alone, tipping is a $16 billion-a-year industry. Consumers acting politely ought not to pay more than they have to for a given service. Tips should not exist. So why do they? The common opinion in the past was that tips both rewarded the efforts of good service and reduced uncomfortable feelings of inequality. And also, tipping makes for closer relations. It went without saying that the better the service, the bigger the tip.
But according to new research from Cornell University, tips no longer serve any useful function. The paper analyzes numbers they got from 2,547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants. The connection between larger tips and better service was very weak. Only a tiny part of the size of the tip had anything to do with the quality of service.
Tipping is better explained, by culture than by the money people spend. In America, the custom came into being a long time ago. It is regarded as part of the accepted cost of a service. In New York restaurants, failing to tip at least l5% could well mean dissatisfaction from the customers. Hairdressers can expect to get l5%-20%, and the man who delivers your fast food $2. In Europe, tipping is less common. In many restaurants the amount of tip is decided by a standard service charge. In many Asian countries, tipping has never really caught on at all. Only a few have really taken to tipping.
According to Michael Lynn,the Cornell papers’ author, countries in which people are more social or outgoing tend to tip more. Tipping may reduce anxiety about being served by strangers. And Mr. Lynn says, “In America, where people are expressive and eager to mix up with others, tipping is about social approval. If you tip badly, people think less of you. Tipping well is a chance to show off.”
【小题1】This passage is mainly about________.
| A.different kinds of tipping in different countries |
| B.the relationship between tipping and custom |
| C.the origin and present meaning of tipping |
| D.most American people hate tipping |
| A.Been hated. | B.Become popular. |
| C.Been stopped. | D.Been permitted |
| A.A Frenchman just quarreled with the barber who did his hair badly in New York. |
| B.A Chinese student enjoyed his meal in a famous fast food restaurant in New York. |
| C.A Japanese businessman asked for a pizza delivery from a Pizza Hut in New York. |
| D.An American just had a wonderful dinner in a well known restaurant in New York. |
| A.tipping is no longer a good way to satisfy some customers themselves |
| B.tipping has something to do with people’s character |
| C.tipping in America can make service better now |
| D.tipping is especially popular in New York |
Customs are social habits. They have been handed down through generations (代) among groups, social classes, etc. Customs can be described as ways of doing things. They are particularly (特别) strong in social practices on the occasions (场合) of births, marriages and deaths.
In China, these days, some people in cities are learning from Western customs. For example, some brides dress in the long white dress that is usual bridal wear in many Western countries.
Every people (民族) has special customs for New Year. The Han people have many interesting Spring Festival customs. And now, quite a number of people living in the cities have followed the Western customs of sending New Year greeting cards for January 1st.
One interesting custom in China is that mothers wrap (包) up their babies tightly (紧紧的).This is not the custom in Western countries, where babies are usually dressed in loose garments.
【小题1】It is true that customs .
| A.have been formed during a short time |
| B.have been formed little by little |
| C.have been quickly formed and changed |
| D.have never been changed |
| A.a kind of food | B.a bed |
| C.a sort of clothes | D.a room |
| A.The brides(新娘)have on the white clothes. |
| B.Men wear the white coats. |
| C.Their parents all have attended their marriages. |
| D.Their marriages are only held in the men’s homes. |
| A.the people all over China spend New Year in the same way |
| B.people in the villages and cities send New Year greeting cards to each other |
| C.each people has his special custom for New Year |
| D.most of Chinese people take Spring Festival seriously |
| A.Chinese babies are usually dressed in new clothes |
| B.Chinese mothers are used to dressing their babies in colourful clothes |
| C.Western babies are dressed in bigger clothes while Chinese babies are usually wrapped |
| D.Western babies have more clothes than Chinese babies |