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A man claiming to be a pastor(牧师) apparently tried to stiff a waiter on a tip, explaining that his work for God allowed him not to leave one.
A photo of the receipt, posted to Reddit.com, shows a bill for $34.93 with an automatic 18 percent gratuity(小费) (or $6.29) added above a blank space for an additional tip.
“I give God 10%,” the diner wrote on the receipt, scratching out the automatic tip. “Why do you get 18?” He then wrote “Pastor” above his signature, and an emphatic “0” where the additional tip would be. (The automatic gratuity, however, had already been added to the total.)
The Reddit user who submitted the image explained in the comments section that the receipt was part of a total bill for a party of 20, which is why the gratuity was automatically added.
“Parties up to eight ... may tip whatever they’d like, but larger parties receive an automatic gratuity," the server wrote. "It’s in the computer; it’s not something I do.”
The server added: “They had no problem with my service, and told me I was great. They just didn’t want to pay when the time came.”
Scribbling(乱涂) notes on receipts has become something of a trend. Earlier this month, the manager of a North Carolina Red Robin surprised an overdue pregnant woman by comping her meal.
“Once seated, a manager came up to us and started talking,” the woman"s husband told Consumerist. “He was extremely friendly and jokingly asked my wife if this was her last meal before heading to the hospital.”
When the check came, a note from the manager next to her portion of the bill read: “MOM 2 BEE GOOD LUC.”
“It was a pleasant surprise and made my tired-of-being-pregnant wife a little more cheery,” the man said.
小题1:What did the pastor mean by saying, “I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?”

A．He was bargaining with the waiter.

B．He didn’t mean to pay the gratuity at all.

C．God gave him the privilege not to pay a gratuity.

D．The gratuity had already been paid by his friends.

小题2:What do you learn from the article?

A．The pastor paid ten percent gratuity of the meal to God.

B．A party of six diners can choose whatever gratuity they want to pay.

C．According to the husband, the wife enjoyed the process of being pregnant.

D．The pastor paid $34.93 in total for the meal.

小题3:What does the underlined word “stiff” mean?

A．amuse

B．abuse

C．persuade

D．fail to pay

答案

小题1:B
小题2:B
小题3:D

解析

试题分析：文章大意：文章介绍一个牧师不想付小费给餐馆，因为他认为自己是为上帝工作的，为什么要付小费，但是小费的账单是电脑自动生成的，因为他们是20人的聚餐。对于规定的8人。
小题1:细节题：从第三段的句子：“I give God 10%,” the diner wrote on the receipt, scratching out the automatic tip. “Why do you get 18?” He then wrote “Pastor” above his signature, and an emphatic “0” where the additional tip would be..这个牧师把小费改成0，说明他不想付小费。选B
小题2:推理题：从第五段的句子：“Parties up to eight ... may tip whatever they’d like, but larger parties receive an automatic gratuity,"可知8个人以内的聚会，食客可以自己选择小费的数量，所以6个人也是。选B
小题3:猜词题：从后面的句子：explaining that his work for God allowed him not to leave one.牧师说他为上帝工作允许他不要留下小费。说明他不想付小费（fail to pay）。A. amuse使好笑。B. abuse辱骂，C. persuade说服，选D

举一反三

As an experienced photojournalist in Nashville, Tennessee, I was hired by USA Today newspaper to photograph a spinal bifida (脊柱畸形) corrective surgical procedure. It was to be performed on a twenty-one week old fetus（胎儿）in uterus（子宫）at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At that time, in 1999, twenty-one weeks in uterus was the earliest that the surgical team would consider for surgery. The worst possible outcome would be that the surgery would cause premature delivery, and no child born earlier than twenty-three weeks had survived.
The tension could be felt in the operating room as the surgery began. A typical C-section cut was made to access the uterus, which was then lifted out and laid at the junction of the mother’s thighs（大腿）. The entire procedure would take place within the uterus, and no part of the child was to breach the surgical opening. During the procedure, the position of the fetus was adjusted by gently moving the outside of the uterus. The entire surgical procedure on the child was completed in one hour and thirteen minutes. When it was over, the surgical team breathed a sigh of relief, as did I.
As a doctor asked me what speed of film I was using, out of the corner of my eye I saw the uterus shake, but no one’s hands were near it. It was shaking from within. Suddenly, an entire arm thrust out of the opening, then pulled back until just a little hand was showing. The doctor reached over and lifted the hand, which reacted and squeezed the doctor’s finger. As if testing for strength, the doctor shook the tiny fist. Samuel held firm. I took the picture! Wow! It happened so fast that the nurse standing next to me asked, “What happened?” “The child reached out,” I said. “Oh. They do that all the time,” she responded.
The surgical opening to the uterus was closed and the uterus was then put back into the mother and the C-section opening was closed.
It was ten days before I knew if the picture was even in focus(对焦). To ensure no digital manipulation(篡改) of images before they see them, USA Today requires that film be submitted unprocessed. When the photo editor finally phoned me he said, “It’s the most incredible picture I’ve ever seen.”
小题1:What may be the best title for the passage?

A．An Amazing Moment	B．A Pitiful Fetus
C．An Honorable Job as a Photographer	D．An Impressive Surgeon

小题2:In 1999, people believed that it was ________.

A．possible for a fetus 21 weeks born to survive

B．likely for a fetus born 21 weeks to become abnormal

C．right time for a fetus born 21 weeks to receive an operation

D．risky for a fetus 21 weeks in uterus to receive an operation

小题3:From the second paragraph, we can see that the surgery was ________.

A．challenging but successful	B．demanding and unsuccessful
C．simple and short	D．long-lasting and difficult

小题4:The underlined “It” in paragraph 3 refers to ________.

A．the uterus	B．the arm of the fetus
C．the picture	D．the head of the fetus

小题5:From what the editor said in the last paragraph, we know he was very ________.

A．disappointed

B．satisfied

C．confident

D．depressed

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Brief Introduction
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One"s Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Main body
My dear，
"Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can"t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan"t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can"t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don"t think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can"t fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can"t even write this properly. I can"t read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can"t go on spoiling your life any longer.
I don"t think two people could have been happier than we have been...........................from the last letter of virginia woolf
小题1:According to the first paragraph we can infer that

A．During the interwar period，virginia woolf was important for London people.

B．She has been living for 55 years

C．Her first the novels Mrs Dalloway in 1925

D．She regarded as one of the foremost romanticism literary figures of the twentieth century

小题2:what is form of The main body？

A．letter of resignation	B．Letter of condolence
C．Letter of suicide	D．Letters of Apologies ;

小题3:Where can I see this article？

A．newspaper	B．biography
C．German Literature	D．television

小题4:According to the main body, which of the following is not the reason of her Dutch act（自***）？

A．She can"t go on spoiling your life any longer

B．I feel certain I am going mad again

C．She cannot bear her husband"s interference

D．The approach of war makes her psychological problems aggravated

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Living in South Africa, I had always taken the wildlife pretty much for granted. Not to say that we were surrounded by it, but the accessibility of game parks and wildlife sanctuaries（避难所，庇护所） always made it seem like a natural part of the environment. For this reason, I suppose that the way my European friends used to talk to me, wasn’t so strange after all. They would ask me what I thought at the time were really silly questions which got on my nerves. They’d say things like ‘Do you have a pet baboon?’ or ‘Do you travel to school by elephant?’.
When Amanda, a friend of mine who was visiting from England, invited me to join her and a group of friends on a wildlife expedition, I was not filled with enthusiasm. However, from the moment we entered the gates of the Zaluzi game reserve, I knew that this was not going to be anything like I had expected. We had been traveling along the National Road when, suddenly, we turned onto a dirt track which seemed to be hidden in the middle of nowhere. Amazingly, the scenery changed dramatically. The civilized environment took on a wild, chaotic（混沌的；一片混乱的） aspect and continued to do so as we walked deeper into the bush.
After having a good night’s sleep at one of the reserve’s bungalows, we were woken at the crack of dawn. After a quick breakfast we piled into a jeep and set off. Our guide assured us that the early start was necessary in order to have the best chance of seeing what was really worthwhile. Armed with just a thermos of coffee, we set out towards the shore of a small lake where it was expected that we could see that animals that used it as their morning watering hole.
On the way to our destination, we topped a hill and there, against the emerging morning light, were a group of animals. It was a stunning sight. As we moved closer, the animals did not appear to be alarmed by our presence. Pet baboons aside, I had never before come within such close range of a pride of lions. It did cross my mind, however, that we might be in a certain amount of danger. When I asked Timothy, our game ranger, if we were actually in any danger, he replied straightforwardly that one is never entirely safe in the bush, but his knowledge and experience allowed him to anticipate any danger with reasonable accuracy.
However, the following day there was some cause for alarm. Not having started out so early, we missed the sightings of the day before. We decided to drive around for a while, hoping to come across something of interest. Suddenly our tracker perched up on the back of our vehicle, signaled to the driver to halt and at the same moment I realized that this time we had stumbled right into a pride of lions. The driver promptly turned off the engine and in a low voice warned us to remain seated and not to make any abrupt movements. The lions were picking at what looked like the remains of a zebra. Timothy, later told us how much to our advantage this was. Had their bellies not been full, their reaction to us would surely have been otherwise. As the nearest lion was less than three meters away from the jeep, I considered that we had been very lucky indeed.
All in all, it was a wonderful trip. Our near miss with the lions was without a doubt the highlight, but what it taught me yet again was how easy it is to be indifferent to our surroundings and not to have a full appreciation of the beauty around us.
小题1:How did the writer feel about the questions her European friends asked?

A．ridiculous

B．annoyed

C．strange

D．embarrassed

小题2:When did the writer’s attitude change about the expedition?

A．When she was traveling along the dirt track.

B．When she received her invitation.

C．When she arrived at the game reserve.

D．When her friend arrived from England.

小题3:What does the underlined word ‘It’ (in the fourth paragraph) refer to?

A．the pride of lions	B．the destination
C．the top of the hill	D．the morning light

小题4:Timothy’s experience as a game ranger was valuable because he ______________

A．could supply a straightforward answer to any question.

B．knew how to frighten the animals.

C．knew the game reserve well.

D．could identify trouble in advance.

小题5:What does the writer mean by the underlined sentence ‘we had been very lucky indeed’ in the fifth paragraph?

A．They had seen the lions up close.	B．They hadn’t been attacked.
C．They had a good guide with them.	D．They had gone on a trip.

小题6:What conclusion does the writer of the text come to?

A．We often do not realize how attractive our environment really is.

B．It is not clever to unnecessarily put ourselves in dangerous situations.

C．We don’t respect wild animals enough.

D．We should protect our surroundings.

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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Never would I forget the other night when I came across an unforgettable sight while watching the Olympics. It was not a gold medal, or a world record broken, but a   36   of determination and courage.
The   37  was swimming and started with only three men on the blocks. Two of them, however, were disqualified(取消资格) due to   38  starts. That left only one to   39  . That would have been difficult enough, not having anyone to race   40  . I watched the man dive off the   41  and knew right away that something was   42  . Now I’m not an expert swimmer but I do know a good dive from a poor one, and this man was far from being a medal winner. When he   43  , it was clear that the man was not out for gold. I listened to the crowd begin to   44   at this poor man that was clearly having a   45  time. Finally he   46  his turn to start back. It was pitiful. He made a few all-out strokes(划水) and you could   47  he was worn out.
__48___in those few awkward strokes, the crowd had ____49____. No longer were they laughing, but beginning to ____50____. Some ____51___began to stand and yell things like, “Come on, you can do it!” and, “Go for it!” He did. A clear minute slower than the average swimmer, this young man finally finished his   52  . The crowd went    53  . You would have thought that he had won the gold, and he should have. Even though he recorded one of the slowest times in Olympic history, this man gave more heart than any of the other   54  .
A man that gave his all -- knowing that he had no chance, but competed because of the   55  of the games.

小题1:

A．taste

B．show

C．sense

D．member

小题2:

A．program

B．sport

C．event

D．accident

小题3:

A．straight

B．false

C．eager

D．right

小题4:

A．compete

B．match

C．win

D．succeed

小题5:

A．against

B．for

C．to

D．with

小题6:

A．banks

B．blocks

C．benches

D．boards

小题7:

A．new

B．funny

C．wrong

D．terrible

小题8:

A．recovered

B．resurfaced

C．renewed

D．returned

小题9:

A．stare

B．point

C．laugh

D．glare

小题10:

A．happy

B．hard

C．good

D．long

小题11:

A．miss

B．made

C．catch

D．carry

小题12:

A．forget

B．believe

C．admit

D．tell

小题13:

A．But

B．So

C．Or

D．Thus

小题14:

A．moved

B．left

C．changed

D．stopped

小题15:

A．cheer

B．chat

C．quarrel

D．debate

小题16:

A．ever

B．still

C．even

D．never

小题17:

A．duty

B．turn

C．action

D．race

小题18:

A．bad

B．wrong

C．hungry

D．wild

小题19:

A．audience

B．athletes

C．judges

D．experts

小题20:

A．spirit

B．progress

C．skill

D．secret

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Recently I fully understood that a little favor could really make a big difference. My daughter and I were, accidentally, in time to catch a falling heart just before it hit the ground.
It all started when Charlene, one of my co-volunteers at the library, asked if I could do her duty on Tuesday since her doctor appointment had been unexpectedly changed. I agreed, which meant I was home on Friday instead of volunteering as previously planned.
My daughter, Mary, managers a book store in town. Mid-morning, she called to ask me for help. Would I buy a fifty dollar gift card, birthday card, and cake for one of Mary’s assistant managers, Cindy?
Mary explained she had to call Cindy in to take the place of another assistant manager who was sick, but felt terrible about it when she discovered it was Cindy’s birthday. Cindy insisted that it was just fine. But that was not what Mary thought, so she gathered enough money from other employees to throw a surprise party for Cindy. Since neither Mary, nor any of the other employees, could leave to pick up the goodies, they were turning to me for help. Days later, Mary told me the wonderful rest of the story, “Cindy cried and cried when we surprised her. After the party, Cindy told us that her boyfriend had chosen that morning to break up with her. To top that off, she only had 26 cents left in her bank account.”
We were surprised at the series of unexpected events that took place in order to circle Cindy with love and catch her falling heart just before it hit the ground.
小题1:Why did Charlene ask a favor of the writer?

A．ShehadtoseethedoctoronFriday.

B．Shewantedtocelebrateherdaughter’sbirthday.

C．ShehadanunexpectedappointmentonTuesday.

D．Sheneededtoprepareforherdaughter’sbirthday.

小题2:What can we learn about Mary?

A．Shewasalearned careerwoman.

B．Shehaduneasyrelationshipswithherassistants.

C．SheknewCindy’slovestorybeforethesurpriseparty.

D．Sheplayedthemostimportantroleinthiscircleoflove.

小题3:Which of the following couldn’t be the reason why Cindy cried?

A．She had to work on her birthday.

B．She had little money in her bank account.

C．She was greatly moved by Mary’s care and kindness.

D．She and her boyfriend parted that very morning.

小题4:The underlined word “goodies” refers to_________.

A．Gifts for Cindy

B．Good stories

C．Close friends

D．Goods on sale

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