Today, Americans are finding their own tips and tricks for fixing malfunctioning devices with supplies as simple as paper and glue.
出自-2016年6月听力原文
In post-war Japan, the economy wasn’t doing so great, so you couldn’t get everyday-use items like household cleaners, says Lisa Katayama, author of Urawaza, a book named after the Japanese term for clever lifestyle tips and tricks, So people looked for ways to do with what they had.
出自-2016年6月听力原文
You actually love tipping! You like to feel that you have a voice in how much money your server makes.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
Waiters, keen observers of humanity that they are, are catching on to this; in one poll, a full 30% said they didn't believe the job they did had any impact on the tips they received.
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Waiters deserve better than just relying on tips for a living.
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Tips make it more difficult to please customers.
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Tips benefit the boss rather that the employees.
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That's because he plans to ban tipping in favor of paying his servers an actual living wage.
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So come on, folks: get on board with ditching the outdated tip system.
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Service quality has little effect on tip size.
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Restaurants should calculate the tips for customers.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
One argument that you tend to hear a lot from the pro-tipping crowd seems logical enough: the service is better when waiters depend on tips, presumably because they see a benefit to successfully veiling their contempt for you.
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No matter how the math works out, you persistently view restaurants with voluntary tipping systems as being a better value, which makes it extremely difficult for restaurants and bars to do away with the tipping system.
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Most of you probably think that you hate tipping, too.
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It is in human nature to try to save on tips.
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I hate tipping.
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He lives comfortably without getting any tips.
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He intends to get rid of the tipping practice.
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He gives his staff a considerable sum for tips.
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Customers should pay more tips to help improve service.
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But mostly, I hate tipping because I believe I would be in a better place if pay decisions regarding employees were simply left up to their employers, as is the custom in virtually every other industry.
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But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one.
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Despite having a brain no bigger than the tip of your index finger, pigeons have a very impressive visual memory.
2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
finally, the FBI received a tip that the stolen document was located very close to Washington, D.C.
2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C