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[填空题]In America alone, tipping is now a $11 billion-a-year industry. Consumers acting rationally ought not to pay more than they have to for a given service. Tips should not exist. So why do they The conventional wisdom is that tips both reward the efforts of good service and reduce uncomfortable feelings of inequality. The better the service, the bigger the tip.
Such explanations no doubt explain the supposed origin of tipping--in the 11th century, boxes in English taverns (酒管) carried the phrase "To Insure Promptitude" (later just "TIP"). But according to new research from Cornell University, tipping no longer serves any useful function.
The paper analyses data from 2,542 groups dining at 20 different restaurants. The correlation between larger tips and better service was very weak: only a tiny part of the variability in the size of the tip had anything to do with the quality of service. Customers who rated a meal as "excellent" still tipped anywhere between 3% and 32% of t
[单项选择]In America alone, tipping is now a 16-billion-a-year industry--all the more surprising since it is a behavioral oddity. Consumers acting rationally ought not to pay more than they have to for a given service. Tips, which are voluntary, above and beyond a service’s contracted cost, and delivered afterwards, should not exist. So why do they The conventional wisdom is that tips both reward the efforts of good service and reduce uncomfortable feelings of inequality. The better the service, the bigger the tip.
A paper analyzing data from 2,547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants shows that the correlation between larger tips and better service was very weak: only a tiny part of the variability in the size of the tip had anything to do with the quality of service. Customers who rated a meal as "excellent" still tipped anywhere between 8% and 37% of the meal price. Tipping is better explained by culture than by economics. In America, the custom has become institutionalized: it i
A. are willing to give tips because they love the practice
B. like to give tips to service people to help them financially
C. are reluctant to give tips, but they still do so
D. are giving less and less tips
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Lucy is a girl from America. She now
studies in China. She finds the lessons in China are very different from the
ones in America. When she came to China, she found it a little difficult to
learn all the lessons except English because they were in Chinese and she
couldn’t understand it well. But now she is good at all the lessons. She studies
hard. After class she talks with students in Chinese and the students help her
with her Chinese. She is happy to study in China.
But she also
finds students in China spending a longer time at school than the students in
America do. Students like football better than American football. She likes
playing American football, but nobody plays with her because they can’t. So she
decides to teach her classmates. She is sure they can play with her
soon. |
Lucy is a______.
[单项选择]Lucy is a girl from America. She now studies in China. She finds the lessons in China are very different from the ones in America. When she came to China, she found it a little difficult to learn all the lessons except English because they were in Chinese and she couldn’t understand it well. But now she is good at all the lessons. She studies hard. After class she talks with students in Chinese and the students help her with her Chinese. She is happy to study in China.
But she also finds students in China spending a longer time at school than the students in America do. Students like football better than American football. She likes playing American football, but nobody plays with her because they can’t. So she decides to teach her classmates. She is sure they can play with her soon.
What’s the difference between Chinese students and American students
A. American students spend a longer time at school.
B. Chinese students spend a shorter time at school.
C. Chinese students spend a longer time at school.
