A cafe in Virginia, America, has come up with a method to convince customers to be more polite.
A sign advertises different costs for a cup of coffee depending on how polite the customer is when ordering. The prices are listed with the typical phrases a customer might use when placing their order. They include: “Small coffee” at $5, “small coffee please” at $3 and “hello, one small coffee please” at $1.75.
A passer-by took a photo of the sign and posted the image online. This isn’t the first time that a coffee shop has attempted to teach customers a lesson. The Petite Syrah cafe in Nice, on the French Riviera, charged customers €7 for “a coffee”, but a more affordable €4.25 for “a coffee please”.
Fabrice Pepino, manager of Petite Syrah, explained the reason: “It started as a joke because at lunchtime people would come in very stressed and were sometimes rude to us when they ordered a coffee.” He added: “I know people say that French service can be rude but it’s also true that customers can be rude when they’re busy.”
The American cafe will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of the Petite Syrah cafe as the original coffee shop proved a success in changing customers’ behaviors. Pepino said that he had noticed a huge difference in the behaviors of his customers after a few days of the sign being on show.
1.If a customer orders a coffee politely, the cafe will ________.
A. present him/her a gift as a reward
B. charge him/her less money
C. offer him/her the coffee for free
D. teach him/her a good lesson
2.It can be known from the passage that ________.
A. the cafe in Virginia is the first coffee shop to do so
B. people don’t believe the strategy because it is a joke
C. the French cafe made the rule just for fun at first
D. both French service and French customers are rude
3.What do you know about the strategy of the Petite Syrah cafe?
A. It is useless. B. It is boring.
C. It is unacceptable. D. It is effective.
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My soccer coach retired in last week. I wanted to do anything special for him at his retirement party. My mum makes the better biscuits in the world, so I decide to ask her for help. Mum taught me some basic step of baking．I insisted on doing most of the baking myself. I thought the biscuits were really well. My only mistake was that I dropped some on the floor after I was packing them up.
At a party, my coach, with a biscuit in his mouth, asked surprisingly who made them and joked, “I might have to retire again next year just get some more of these biscuits.”
My favorite picture at the party is of my coach and me enjoy the biscuits with happy laughter!
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Were you the first or the last child in your family? Or were you a middle or an only child? Some people think 1. matters where you were born in your family. But there are different ideas about what birth order means. Some people say that oldest children, 2. are smart and strong-willed(意志坚强的), are very likely 3. (succeed). The reason 4. this is simple. Parents have a lot of time for their first child and give him or her a lot of attention. An only child will succeed for 5. same reason. What happens to the 6. children in the family? Middle children don’t get so much attention, so they don’t feel that important. If a family has many children, the middle one sometimes gets lost in the crowd. The youngest child, 7., often gets special treatment. Often this child grows up to be funny. But a recent study saw things quite 8. (difference). The study found that first children believed in family rules. They didn’t take many chances in 9. lives. They usually 10. (follow) orders. Rules didn’t mean as much to later children in the family. They took chances and they often did better in life.
Ten years ago, Sean Carter was a student at university. One night, he was __ in a car with a friend who had been drinking. They __ and Sean was left in a wheelchair __ a brain in jury. He has been unable to walk or talk since then and his mom, Jenny, has been __ him.
“What were you feeling __ you found out I had been in a car __?” Sean asks his mom.Sean speaks by using his finger to __ words onto an iPad. Those words are then translated into audio. “I was shocked,” Jenny says. “It was just so hard seeing your child’s __ body in a bed for so long. You couldn’t do anything for two years.”
Over the years, Sean has become more __, though he says he’s not yet ready to do everything alone. “it’s __ living with your mom when you’re 32 years old,” Jenny says, while Sean __ and replies, “Oh, yeah!”
Jenny, 63, then asks her son, “If this was our last __, what would you want to say?”
“Let me __ you right there,” Sean tells his mom. “I know you will be here for many years to __. But I want you to know how __ I am for what you have done for me. You gave up your life to give me a life.”
“Yeah. But it’s OK,” Jenny responds. “__ is really the value goods that we have, and if you can __ time with somebody else, that’s probably the most important thing you can do for someone. It’s the only thing that __.”
Sean replies, “I don’t say this enough. You’re the picture of unconditional __. I admire your __ to be the best mom you can be, and you do a fine job. I love you beyond the moon and back.”
1.A. chatting B. arguing C. driving D. playing
2.A. crashed B. dashed C. attacked D. struggled
3.A. of B. with C. for D. on
4.A. giving in to B. taking control of C. looking forward to D. taking care of
5.A. before B. through C. when D. because
6.A. accident B. seat C. road D. track
7.A. put B. type C. draw D. move
8.A. strong B. heavy C. soft D. lifeless
9.A. independent B. generous C. clever D. careful
10.A. hard B. interesting C. foolish D. funny
11.A. worries B. laughs C. cries D. complains
12.A. dinner B. trip C. operation D. conversation
13.A. reward B. forget C. stop D. expect
14.A. come B. spend C. waste D. disappear
15.A. regretful B. thankful C. painful D. understanding
16.A. Hardship B. Friendship C. Emotion D. Time
17.A. kill B. save C. share D. calculate
18.A. matters B. survives C. lasts D. lives
19.A. joy B. reward C. apology D. love
20.A. idea B. duty C. story D. confidence
The ancient Chinese game Go is considered one of the most complicated strategy games. Winning the game was seen as a test of human creativity. That is, until a machine found a way to do it better. Alpha Go, an artificial intelligence (AI) machine built by Google, won its first match against South Korean Lee Sedol on March 9. Still digesting his loss, Lee said during the post-game press conference, “1.”
But that was just the beginning. In the following week, Alpha Go outperformed Lee in another three matches. 2.
Some people have been arguing that AI is harmful to the human race. 3. Similarly, UK scientist Stephen Hawking once warned that the “development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race”.
So are we really on the verge(边缘)of living in the world shown in the Terminator(终结者)sci-fimovies? “Not quite,” answered The Economist. After all, it’s hard to get computers to apply their knowledge to everyday situations. “4.” Thomas Johnson said, founder of an AI toy company. “But for a robot, to walk up and down hills requires so many complicated decisions to be made in real time, and it’s really difficult to do.”
As The Economist put it: “We have a long way to go before AI’s abilities truly begin to approach the human brain, despite how powerful the technology can be when focusing on a single task.”
Meanwhile, John Mark off of The New York Times argued that researchers should build artificial intelligence that aims for “intelligence augmentation (增加)” (IA) in which computers make people more effective.
He wrote: “5.Since technology depends on the values of its creators, we can make choices using technology to improve the world.”
A. Many robots fell over like little kids learning to walk.
B. We take for granted things like balance and vision.
C. Eventually, our fate is in our own hands.
D. So what is next for AI and humanity?
E. That made the five-match score 4-1 in favor of Alpha Go.
F. In 2014, US businessman Elon Musk said at an MIT conference that developing the technology is calling up a “demon(魔鬼)”.
G. I am in shock; I admit that.
