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       When an NBA player is young he thinks he can win the championship by himself. It is only later when he has aged and been through many battles  36  he learns an important lesson: there is no “I” in “team”.

       There is  37  better example of the value of teamwork than the Boston Celtics. Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett were all  38  on three different teams. Yet, none of them had any titles to show for it.  39  last season, they  40  to sacrifice money and individual statistics to play together. Garnett and Allen joined Pierce on the Celtics and  41  the NBA in the process.

       It started in simple ways. Garnett and Allen are two of the most intense athletes in the world. They treat every second of every practice like it is the NBA  42 . If you want to play alongside them then you will have to do the same. So, the young guys on the Celtics started giving their full effort too.

       Pierce had been the star of the Celtics for many years. He  43  shoot the ball many times a game. But with the addition of Allen and Garnett he shot less and  44  on defense. His  45  showed the young players that doing what made the team better was the only thing that  46 .

       When the Celtics  47  and the game was almost over, Garnett, Pierce and Allen would come out of the game. But they wouldn’t just sit on the bench.  48 , they stood and cheered and  49  for their teammates. They wanted to support their friends and  50 .

       Now, the guys who don’t play know they can still  51  the game by cheering so they scream and cheer when Garnet, Allen and Pierce are playing. The Celtics have developed a strong  52 . They are more than just teammates. They are  53 .

       The result: the Boston Celtics won the 2008 NBA championship and are considered the favorites to  54  the Eastern Conference championship again this year.

       There is a saying that  55 , “A successful team beats with one heart.” If that is the case, the Celtics may have the biggest heart in the NBA.

36. A. that                B. when                C. where               D. which

37. A. not                    B. no                    C. never                D. seldom

38. A. super stars          B. film stars       C. football stars     D. known persons

39.   A. Yet                  B. Though         C. Then             D. Finally

40.   A. meant              B. planned          C. decided         D. intended

41.   A. created             B. changed            C. maintained        D. altered

42.   A. championship    B. test               C. practice         D. drill

43.   A. would              B. used to             C. could                   D. need

44.   A. focused            B. looked              C. depended       D. relied

45.   A. selfishness        B. selflessness    C. heroism            D. male chauvinist

46.   A. happened       B. took                 C. came             D . mattered

47.   A. were winning    B. were failing    C. were going       D. were rising

48.   A. However       B. But                  C. Though         D. Instead

49.   A. shouted         B. laughed            C. screamed       D. neighed

50.   A. teammates       B. relatives            C. families         D. audience

51.   A. effort                      B. afford              C. effect                   D. affect

52.   A. teamship        B. connection        C. friendship       D.relationship

53.   A. friends             B. brothers         C. comrades       D. teammates

54.   A. beat                 B. defeat               C. knock               D. hit

55.   A. writes              B. goes                 C. speaks              D. talks

       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 how 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 brings into positive feelings for the mimicker ,”wrote Rick van Baaren , a social psychology professor . “ There studies show that people who are being mimicked become more generous toward the person who mimics thorn .”

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 to orders and preferences back to the customers . Rick van Baaren then compared their take home . The results were clear-it plays to mimic your customers . The copycat waiters earned almost double the amount of tips to the other group .

     Leonard Green and Joe 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 , cab drivers , hair stylists , they found tip percentages in these three areas dropped as customers’bills went up . In fact , tip percentages appear to plateau when bills topped $100 and a bill for $200 made the worker gain no bigger percentage tip than a hill for $100 .

    “That’s also a point of tipping ,” Green says . “ You have to give a little extra to the cab driver for being there to pack 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.How many 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 waiter’s factors

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 the other group

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 ?

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

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