18.Quiet,please.Your dinner will now be served.That is the message being sent to customers at a New York City restaurant.In the restaurant,all people are forbidden to talk during the meal.
Nicholas Nauman.head chef at Eat in Brooklyn,said that he was inspired by the tight-lipped consumption after spending some time in India,where Buddhist monks take their breakfast without exchanging words.
"It's just an opportunity to enjoy food in a way you might not have otherwise,"said the chef,noting that the sounds of forks on dishes and cooks in the kitchen provide some background noise to the experience.
The silent一dining experience,experts said,seems to fit with other attention一getting tricks that many restaurant owners and chefs often adopt in the generally known competitive restaurant business.At Moto,in Chicago,diners can eat the menu.In Paris,London and Moscow,restaurant-Boers are served at Dans le Noir,where they will have their meals without light.
"As a mother of two 15-year-old boys it is kind of a fantasy to go to do that,"Tanya Steel,editor-in-chief of Epicurious.com,said of the silent一dining experience at Eat."But as someone who pays money to go out,I would feel like I'm in some kind of silent film;it would be incredibly difficult."
At a recent evening at Eat,restaurant-goers didn't seem to mind the silent treatment as they ate their salads and soups.One polite customer walked out of the door to sneeze in order to avoid breaking the silence.Another could barely hold back a strong case of laughing.And one couple found ways to communicate with facial expressions,instead of words.
"It's a kind of experience,"said Eat owner Jordon Colon."The silence speaks for itself."
24.At Eat in Brooklyn,the dinersA•
A.have to eat their meals silently
B.can talk with chefs about the food
C.should have good table manners
D.will have to eat in the darkness
25.How did Nicholas Nauman come up with the idea?C
A.Suggested by his customers.
B.Inspired by other restaurants.
C.Inspired by his experience in India.
D.Requested by the restaurant owner.
26.What can we learn from Tanya Steel's words?D
A.She spoke badly of its service.
B.It was too expensive to eat there.
C.It was hard to keep her boys quiet.
D.It may appeal to someone but not all.
27.It can be inferred that most customers,B
A.do not obey the dinning rules
B.accept the new kind of treatment
C.complain about its inconvenience
D.do not care much for the food.
分析 本文属于说明文阅读,作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了布鲁克林区新的用餐规定,他要求食客安静的用餐不许说话,尽管有人认为这个餐厅可能吸引某人,但不是全部,但餐厅的客人还是愿意遵守这个规定的.
解答 24.A.细节理解题.根据文章第一段"In the restaurant,all people are forbidden to talk during the meal"在餐厅里,所有人都不许吃饭时说话;可知布鲁克林区吃的食客别要求安静的用餐;故选A.
25.C.细节理解题.根据文章第二段"said that he was inspired by the tight-lipped consumption after spending some time in India,where Buddhist monks take their breakfast without exchanging words"他说他是受在印度守口如瓶的消费支出的启发,佛教僧侣吃早餐时不能说话;故选C.
26.D.推理判断题.根据文章第四段"As a mother of two 15-year-old boys it is kind of a fantasy to go to do that,But as someone who pays money to go out,I would feel like I'm in some kind of silent film;it would be incredibly difficult"对于一位两个15岁男孩的母亲这是一种很好的体验,但是对于去消费的顾客,我会觉得我在一种无声电影;这将是非常困难的;可知他认为这个餐厅可能吸引某人,但不是全部;故选D.
27.B.推理判断题.根据文章最后一段"At a recent evening at Eat,restaurant-goers didn't seem to mind the silent treatment as they ate their salads and soups"在最近的一个晚上吃饭,餐厅的人似乎并不介意沉默对待他们吃他们的沙拉和汤;可知大多数客户可以接受这种规定;故选B.
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.