【推荐1】A trip across the Pacific will guarantee you a different experience with a tipping culture you’ve never come across in China.

In the US, giving a little extra money to service workers on top of your bill is a common practice.

Though US national law requires that businesses pay workers at least $7.25 (45 yuan) per hour, employees receiving tips—often waiters and waitresses—are the exceptions. They usually only receive at least $2.13 an hour, and tips make up the difference. As The Wall Street Journal put it, “ The American system of tipping holds the promise of great rewards for waiting staff.”

So how should you tip if you are in the US?

Normally you pay tips as a percentage of the bill. Offering an extra 15 percent of the bill to the waiter or waitress in a restaurant and to the delivery man or woman is customary and expected. You can offer more for great service and less for poor service.

Yet there is an exception. For take-out food, you don’t have to provide tips, though some people say that filling an order still requires work and time that deserve a little extra—but maybe a little less.

Tips are not expected at fast food restaurants, pizza parlors, cafés or ice cream shops either, though a tip jar might be right by the cash register (收银机). Don’t feel obligated to throw some money in, but also remember that it doesn’t hurt. Those workers do not rely on tips.

Other service workers also receive tips. For taxi drivers, 15 percent is the norm (标准), more if they help with your bags. Hairdressers often receive about 15 percent of the bill. The same goes for spa therapists(理疗师) and tour guides.

Today, you can even pay tips on a credit card. When receiving a copy of the bill to sign, you are free to fill in how much you’d like to tip.

Though thinking about when to tip and how much you should tip causes a big headache for many Chinese people, it’s important to bear in mind that as long as you show respect and use your reasoning, things will be just fine.

1. What is the article mainly about?

A．How tipping culture started in the US.

B．New ways to give tips in the US.

C．How to give tips properly in the US.

D．The different attitudes that people have toward tipping.

2. Which of the following is said to be against the norm of tipping in the US?

A．Paying waiters and waitresses less than $7.25 per hour.

B．Refusing to give tips to your tour guide.

C．Tipping taxi drivers less than 15% because of poor service.

D．Ignoring the tip jar at fast food restaurants, cafés, or ice cream shops.

3. The underlined word “obligated” in Paragraph 7 probably means________.

A．being forced to do something

B．being grateful for something

C．being surprised at something

D．being embarrassed about something

4. According to the author, Chinese consumers_________________.

A．don’t necessarily have to follow the tipping rules in the US

B．should use their credit cards to give tips

C．should take it easy and give the correct tips for different occasions

D．must argue about the amount of tip they have to pay

【推荐2】In the long history of about 5,000 years, numerous Chinese traditional festivals were celebrated as the memory of gods or some significant days, some of which are passed down from generation to generation and people always practice special traditional activities in each festival,

Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival is on the 15th day after Spring Equinox (春分), round April 4 or April 5 every year.     1    , They remove the weeds growing on the ancestors’ tomb to make them clean, so this festival is also called Tomb-sweeping Festival. In some areas, people are forbidden to use the fire to cook the food, so they only eat the cool food. Thus, it is also named Hanshi Festival.

Double Ninth Festival

    2    The Chinese character of September is the same as 9, so we get this special name. Chinese   people, especially the north Chinese，climb the mountains to the peak to enjoy the wonderful perspective, and admire the beauty of chrysanthemum(菊花).

Winter Solstice(冬至).

Winter solstice is on around December 22 or 23 of solar calendar each year, From winter solstice on, the daytime will be longer and longer.     3    Chinese people in the northern region, eat dumplings-and wonton(馄饨), while in the southern regions rice balls.

    4    

In China, this festival is in late January or early Februaty, the last day of the Lunar year.

People celebrate it by having a family reunion dinner, setting off fireworks and staying up late. Breaking the dishes and bowls is a thing all the people scare(惊恐），but if you did it, you have to say: “sui sui ping an”    5    

A．Spring Festival.

B．New Year's Eve.

C．People always visit their friends and relatives*

D．People will go to worship(祭拜）their ancestors.

E．It is a pun(双关语), meaning you will be healthy every year.

F．It is celebrated on Sept. 9th of the Lunar Calendar, around October

G．It's a holiday which is regarded as important as the Spring Festival.

【推荐3】The need for love is deeply rooted in the human psyche(灵魂).    1     Separateness,according to psychologists,means to be cut off,helpless and alone in the world.It is the source of all anxiety.

    2     It can be selfish and possessive,or unselfish and giving.Abraham Maslow distinguishes between two kinds of love:B-love or “being love” means love for another person:unselfish love not dependent upon your own needs.D-love or “deficiency love” is a selfish possessive love which is based upon someone else’s ability to satisfy your needs.

D-love is conditional.It depends upon whether personal needs continue to be met.But B-love is unconditional.    3     Furthermore,as it depends upon who you are,it is possible only when you allow yourself to be known to the other person.

The psychologist Erich Fromm also distinguished between two types of love.    4     Symbiotic union is an immature love based upon the satisfaction of needs and is similar to Maslow’s concept of D-love.

Mature love,on the other hand,is a relationship that allows individuals to retain(保持)their independence,their identity,and their integrity.In mature love people can overcome their sense of separateness yet continue to be themselves.The immature lover would say,“I love you because I need you.” but the mature one:“    5    ”

A．Every one of us needs love.

B．There are two types of love.

C．I need you because I love you.

D．It depends not upon what you do,but who you are.

E．These two types are quite different from each other.

F．Love is a way of overcoming the feeling of human separateness.

G．They are immature love,called by him symbiotic union(共同体),and mature love.