Old Japanese living alone can now hire
a "family" for lunch and a few hours’pleasant talk. Just give them a ring and
ask for, say, a daughter, son-in-law and grandchild. They will show up at your
door, and greet you happily as if they hadn’t seen you for years.
Some 15 couples have so far hired "families". "We have nearly 80 people on
the waiting list."Said the president of the company that offers such services.
"What is common about these senior citizens is that they are eager for human
love. We are helping them make their dreams come true." Where
once big families with three or more generations living together were common,
now numbers are reducing fast. In cities there are very few indeed. Many old
people seldom see their families. This may be because the children’s bosses have
sent them to a distant city, even abroad, or just b A. to ask for help when they are ill B. to realize their big-family dreams C. to seek love and comfort D. to strengthen parent-children relations
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Old Japanese living alone can now hire
a "family" for lunch and a few hours’ pleasant talk. Just give them a ring and
ask for, say, a daughter, son-in-law and grandchild. They will show up at your
door, and greet you emotionally as if they hadn’t seen you for years.
Some 15 couples have so far hired "families". "We have nearly 80 people on
the waiting list," said the president of the company that offers such services.
"What is common about these senior citizens is that they are thirsty for human
love. We are helping them make their dreams come true." Where
once big families with three or more generations living together were common,
now numbers are reducing fast. In cities there are very few indeed. Many old
people see their families only rarely (稀少地,难得地) , if not at all. This may be
because the children’s bosses have sent t A. to ask for help when they are iii B. to seek love and comfort C. to strengthen (加强,巩固) parent-children relations D. to realize their big-family dreams
[单项选择]In America alone, tipping is now a $16 billion-a-year industry. Consumers acting rationally ought not to pay more than they have to for a given service. 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 relationship between larger tips and better service was very weak. 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 established; it is regarded as part of the accepted cost of a service. In a New York restaurant, failing to tip at least 15% could well mean abuse from the waiter. Hairdressers can expect to get 15-20%, the man who delivers your groceries $2. In Europe, tipping is less common; in many restaurants, f A. tips are voluntary in America B. tipping is rare in many Asian countries C. people don’t tip in Europe D. tipping is now popular in Iceland
[填空题]By changing your dietary alone, you can have your cholesterol level reduced by 30 percent.
[填空题] Watching Microcurrents Flow We can now watch electricity as it flows through even the tiniest circuits. By scanning the magnetic field generated as electric currents flow through objects, physicists have managed (46) . The technology will allow manufacturers to scan microchips for faults, as well as revealing microscopic defects in anything from aircraft to banknotes. Gang Xiao and Ben Schrag at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, visualize the current by measuring subtle changes in the magnetic field of an object and (47) Their sensor is adapted from an existing piece of teclmology that is used to measure large magnetic fields in computer hard drives. "We redesigned the magnetic sensor to make it capable of measuring very weak changes in magnetic fields," says Xiao. The resulting device is capable of detecting a current as weak as 10 microamperes, even when the wire is buried deep wit
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