【正文】 idual waiter . In an unreasonable oute , you are punishing the good waiters in the restaurant by not tipping the bad one . Indeed , there appear to be little connection between tipping and good service . may be inferred that a Europeanstyle service______. A . is tippingfree B .charges little tip C .is the author’s initiative D .is offered at Perse of the following is NOT true according to the author . A .Tipping is a mon practice in the restaurant world. B .Waiters don’t care about tipping C .Customers generally believe in tipping. D .Tipping has little connection with the quality of service. to Michael Lynn’s studies, waiters will likely get more tips if they______ 6 A. have performed good service B. frequently refill customers’ water glass C. win customers’ favor D. serve customers of the same sex may infer from the context that ―upwelling‖(Line 2, Para 6) probably means ________ A. selling something up B. selling something fancy C. selling something unnecessary D. selling something more expensive passage is mainly about __________ A. reasons to abolish the practice of tipping B. economic sense of tipping C. consumers’ attitudes towards tipping D. tipping for good service Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage: ―I promise.‖ ― I swear to you it’ll never happen again.‖ ―I give you my word.‖ ―Honestly. Believe me.‖ Sure, I trust. Why not? I teach English position at a private college. With a certain excitement and intensity. I read my students’ essays, hoping to find the person behind the pen. As each semester progresses, plagiarism（剽竊） appears. Not only is my intelligence insulted as one assumes I won’t detect a polished piece of prose from an otherwiseaverage writer, but I feel a sadness that a student has resorted to buying a paper from a peer. Writers have styles like fingerprints and after several assignments, I can match a student’s work with his or her name even if it’s missing from the upper lefthand corner. Why is learning less important than a higher gradepoint average（ GPA） ? When we’re threatened or sick, we make conditional promises. ―If you let me pass math I will ….‖ ―Lord, if you get me over this before the big homeing game I’ll….‖ Once the situation is behind us, so are the promises. Human nature? Perhaps, but we do use that clich233。 global telemunications and mass media。ll change his mind ； once he’s decided on so something he tends to _____it. A． stick to B． abide by C． ply with D． keep on 20． Tom placed the bank notes， _________the change and receipts， back in the drawer． A. more than B. but for C． thanks to D. along with Section 1I Cloze (10 points) Directions： For each numbered blank in the following passage． there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a pencil． Advancing age means losing your hair, your waistline and your memory， right ? Dana Denis is just 40 years old， but 2 1 she’s worried about what she calls’ my rolling mental blackouts.” ”I try to remember something and I just blank out， ”she says You may 22 about these lapses， calling them ” senior moments ”or blaming early Alzheimer’s ( 老年癡呆癥 )． ”Is it an inescapable fac t that the older you get， the 23 you remember? Well, sort of． But as time goes by, we tend to blame age 24 problems that are not necessarily age— related． “ When a teenager can’t find her keys ， she thinks it39。s because she’s distracted or disanized ，”says Paul Gold．“ A 70yearold blames her 25 ．” In fact， the 70yearold may have been 26 things for decades． In healthy people， memory doesn’t worsen as 27 as many of us think ．“ As we 28， the memory mechanism isn’t 29 ，” says psychologist Fergus Craik． ”It’s just inefficient． ” The brain’s processing 30 slows down over the years ， though no one knows exactly 31. Recent research suggests that nerve cells lose efficiency and 32 there’s less activity in the brain ． But， cautions Barry Gordon， ”It39。 and the spread of gigantic global corporations. All of these forces appear to signify a future in which the language of advertising, popular culture, and consumer products bee similar. Already English and a few other major tongues have emerged as global languages of merce and munication. For many of the world’s peoples, learning one of these languages is viewed as the key to education, economic opportunity, and a better way of life. Only about 3,000 languages now in use are expected to survive the ing century. Are most of the rest doomed in the century after that? Whether most of these languages survive will probably depend on how strongly cultural groups wish to keep their identity alive through a native language. To do so will require an emphasis on bilingualism（ mastery of two languages） . Bilingual speakers could use their own language in smaller spheresat home, among friends, in munity settingsand a global language at work, in dealings with government, and in mercial spheres. In this way, many small languages could sustain their cultural and linguistic integrity alongside global languages, rather than yield to the homogenizing（同化的） forces of globalization. Ironically, the trend of technological innovation that has threatened minority languages could also help save them. For example, some experts predict that puter software translation tools will one day permit minority language speakers to browse t