Prices for the Lunar New Year’s eve dinners in 2007, the most important dinner for Chinese people, will be five to nine percent higher as restaurant reservations boom for the festival, Shanghai Morning Post reported on Thursday. This year, the Lunar New Year’s eve festival falls on February 17. The traditional meal, known as nianyefan, is for family reunions in dinners in the West. |
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“Agricultural products are more expensive than previous years, and this directly leads to the price increase of nianyefan,” Xia Xiangqing, a senior official with the Shanghai Restaurants. Association, told the newspaper. “Labor and transport also cost more.”
Up until a few years ago, almost every family in the city ate at home or the home of a close relative, with restaurants shutting down for the evening.
However, most families in the city now prefer to head out to a restaurant on that night to save the trouble of cooking and cleaning at home.
In fact, “if you haven’t reserved a table yet, you may be out of luck as most of the city’s restaurants are already booked before the New Year,” Xia said.
“In the past, restaurants decided everything.” Xia said. “They sometimes refused to return the customers deposit if they wanted to cancel their reservation.”
Xia also told the newspaper yesterday that the association is working on some standards for nianyefan to avoid complaints from customers.
56．If the price of dinner in a restaurant is 600 yuan normally, it will be yuan for the Lunar New Year’s eve in 2007 at least.
A．300 B．540 C．630 D．654
57．What is the reason for the price rise of Spring Festival dinner according to the passage?
A．The location of the restaurant B．The number of the customers
C．The time of having the dinner D．The cost of the dinner
58．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Restaurants are usually shut down for the evening during the Spring Festival.
B．More and more city families choose to book New Year dinner in restaurants.
C．Most of the city’s restaurants are already booked from the beginning of a year
D．Restaurants have taken measures to avoid customer complaints this year.
59．According to the passage, if you want to book a table in a restaurant for 2007 Lunar New Year’s eve, you will have to first.
A．save some money in a bank B．accept the restaurant’s decision
C．put some money in the restaurant D．invite some relatives or friends
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A recent trend(趋势) in Californian restaurants shows new eating habits among those people out to have an interesting dining experience. Appetizers(开胃品)seem to be the name of the games as diners turn away from the more traditional three-course meal in favor of smaller snacks served in various types of restaurants, bars and cafes. In this way, in the course of an evening out, you might go to a restaurant for a tasty dish to eat at one end of town, to a bar with some live music at the other end, then for a coffee, and finally back to the restaurant for a further appetizer.
Reasons for this trend are the fact that so many different types of restaurants have been set up recently, each with their own particular type of food and special atmosphere, together with the increased specialty in the type of snacks being offered. Gone are the cheese sticks of the old days, when appetizers were not really taken seriously. Some favorite snacks of the moment are slices of hot pizza, creamy fish-based dishes and crispy cakes and so on.
Prices for appetizers are not equal to a full meal; however, their new popularity has meant that they are by no means as cheap as they used to be. Certainly, for that special occasion, a meal in a nice restaurant, complete with the piano performance, is hard to beat. However, if we see this trend for “butterfly eating”---moving around several different places in one evening continues, then all the traditional style restaurants may well have to provide their own appetizer bars as well!
How are the eating habits of the Californians changing?
A. People are dining out less.
B. Californian restaurants are becoming less popular.
C. Most people eat less than they used to.
D. A full restaurant meal is less popular.
All the places that serve appetizers _ .
A. have much the same menu
B. have their own particular characteristics
C. have a bar with live music
D. are located at the end of the town
If you go out for an evening of appetizers, you are likely to _.
A. need a car or take a bus or other transport
B. be bored with some kinds of snacks
C. spend more time for a full meal than you would
D. eat too much meat
Appetizers used to be seen as .
A. relatively important B. a full meal
C. a cheap meal D. an expensive meal
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C．the foreigners in Britain D．English learners across the globe
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Monday 7th of January until Sunday.13rd of January 2008
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The United States has about 475,000 school buses ---all painted yellow.Each day they carry more than 25,000,000 children, half of all schoolchildren in the country.But these buses, on average, use four liters of diesel (柴油) fuel to travel less than sixteen kilometers.When the school year began last fall, diesel averaged 55 cents a liter nationally.The price nearly doubled, to a dollar and 8 cents, by the end of school in June.
Bob Riley speaks for the American School Bus Council.He says fuel prices for schools are not much lower than others have to pay.As a result, schools are looking for ways to reduce transportation costs.Bus routes are being redrawn or, in some cases, canceled (取消).Some areas are buying buses that use natural gas or other alternative fuels.Other steps include fewer field trips and less travel by sports teams.And some school districts (地区) may end any bus service not required by law.
Studies show that school buses are the safest form of transportation to and from school.The American School Bus Council says cuts in bus service are bad for children and possibly the environment.It says removing buses from the road will mean an increase in other vehicles transporting students.Spokesman Bob Riley says another concern is that reducing bus services might reduce attendance.
But it could also get more children to walk or bicycle to school.And that would surely make people happy at the National Center for Safe Routes to School.More kids walking or biking safely to school is the aim of a three-year-old federal program, part of an international movement.The goal is to increase physical activity and reduce air pollution.The United States will celebrate Walk to School Day on October the eighth this year.But for some students, high fuel prices could make every day a walk-to-school day.
【小题1】What does this passage mainly tell us?
| A．High fuel prices’ influences on school buses. |
| B．New measures to transport school students. |
| C．The safest form of student transportation. |
| D．The origin of Walk to School Day. |
| A．There are too many school buses in the United States. |
| B．There are too many students in the US. |
| C．Diesel prices are going up too rapidly in the US. |
| D．School buses consume too much diesel in the US. |
| A．Cuts in bus service will have negative results. |
| B．The US government is encouraging cuts in bus services. |
| C．The US schools are searching for the safest transportation means. |
| D．Reducing bus service will do a lot of good to the environment. |
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Kodak’s decision to file for bankruptcy (破产) protection is a sad, though not unexpected, turning point for a leading American corporation that pioneered consumer photography and dominated the film market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital revolution.
Although many attribute Kodak’s downfall to “complacency (自满) ,” that explanation doesn’t acknowledge the lengths to which the company went to reinvent itself. Decades ago, Kodak predicted that digital photography would overtake film (胶片) — and in fact, Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975 — but in a fateful decision, the company chose to shelf its new discovery to focus on its traditional film business.
“It wasn’t that Kodak was blind to the future”, said Rebecca Henderson, a professor at Harvard Business School, but rather that it failed to execute on a strategy to confront it. By the time the company realized its mistake, it was too late.
Kodak is an example of a firm that was very much aware that they had to adapt, and spent a lot of money trying to do so, but ultimately failed. Large companies have a difficult time switching into new markets because there is a temptation to put existing assets (资产) into the new businesses.
Although Kodak predicted the unavoidable rise of digital photography, its corporate (企业的) culture was too rooted in the successes of the past for it to make the clean break necessary to fully embrace the future. They were a company stuck in time. Their history was so important to them. Now their history has become a liability.
Kodak’s downfall over the last several decades was dramatic. In 1976, the company commanded 90% of the market for photographic film and 85% of the market for cameras. But the 1980s brought new competition from Japanese film company Fuji Photo, which undermined Kodak by offering lower prices for film and photo supplies. Kodak’s decision not to pursue the role of official film for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was a major miscalculation. The bid went instead to Fuji, which exploited its sponsorship to win a permanent foothold in the marketplace.
1.What do we learn about Kodak?
A. It went bankrupt all of a sudden.
B. It is approaching its downfall.
C. It initiated the digital revolution in the film industry.
D. It is playing a dominant role in the film market.
2.Why does the author mention Kodak’s invention of the first digital camera?
A. To show its early attempt to reinvent itself.
B. To show its effort to overcome complacency.
C. To show its quick adaptation to the digital revolution.
D. To show its will to compete with Japan’s Fuji photo.
3.Why do large companies have difficulty switching to new markets?
A. They find it costly to give up their existing assets.
B. They tend to be slow in confronting new challenges.
C. They are unwilling to invest in new technology.
D. They are deeply stuck in their glorious past.
4.What does the author say Kodak’s history has become?
A. A burden. B. A mirror. C. A joke. D. A challenge.
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