外刊精读与练习（学案）
The Tipping Taboo
给小费的禁忌
语篇导读：
如何在餐馆或咖啡馆给小费是一个十分复杂的问题。小费应该是给现金还是在买单时一并用信用卡支付？
你更愿意支付固定的服务费，还是认为付小费完全没有必要？“随身英语” 讨论这个让很多人都感到困惑而棘手的问题。
Step 1 Vocabulary词汇表
rvice 词汇：服务
attentive 体贴，周到的
a bad taste in your mouth 不愉快的经历或记忆
bill 账单rvice charge 服务费
tip 小费
put your hand in your pocket 捐钱（在本文中指“给小费”）
the norm 惯例，正常行为
expected 应该的
optional 非强制的，可选择的compulsory 强制性的obliged 必须的
up to scratch 达到标准
to tip 给小费
recipient 接受人wage 工钱，报酬
the minimum wage 最低工资gratuity 小费，赏钱
女性吃巧克力的好处rver 服务人员
income 收入
tacit pressure 隐性压力
hospitality included “服务费包括在内”
汽车销售淡季Step 2 Reading and understanding
It’s nice to go out for a meal at a restaurant. But what makes it extra special – apart from the food - is to receive attentive rvice from the staff. What can leave a bad taste in your mouth, though, is to be handed the bill and e that a rvice charge has been added. You’re faced with the dilemma of deci
ding to pay it, and whether you should add a tip on top.
Putting your hand in your pocket to reward good rvice is a personal choice, but it also depends on where you are in the world. What is the norm in one city is not necessarily the norm in another. In some places a tip is expected; but in others, good rvice should be expected and ought to be included in the price.
Adding an optional rvice charge to your bill certainly makes paying a tip less awkward becau there’s no need to calculate the amount. But even though it’s not compulsory, you sometimes feel obliged to pay it. In the UK, where people tend to be too polite to complain, they might pay the rvice charge despite quietly complaining that the rvice they received was not up to scratch!
Choosing your own amount to tip may em fairer, but should you pay it in cash or add it on to a credit card payment? And who will be the recipient? If we are to pay extra, we want
to know it goes to the person who derves it and that it’s not ud as an alternative to paying someone a proper wage. In the UK in 2009, the law was changed after an outcry over staff being paid under the minimum wage and then topping up their wages with money they had earned in tips.
However, in the US it’s still customary to leave a gratuity becau tips often make up a substantial part of a rver’s income. Restaurant owner William Beckett told the BBC that in New York, for example, “There’s a tacit pressure to tip. But theoretically you (could) just stand up and walk out. You don’t. Everybody tips 20%.”
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Maybe we should follow Japan’s approach, where tipping under any circumstance may em rude becau good rvice is standard and expected. Elwhere, there are calls for restaurants to replace the tipping system with a so-called 'hospitality-included' charge – a single payment which covers both the meal and the rvice. This basically means, don’t tip - the price you e on the menu reflects the full cost of dining. That might make receiving the final bill easier to swallow!
海洋性气候特点Step 3 测验与练习
Task 1 阅读课文并回答问题。
1. Name two ways you could pay a rvice charge.
2. Why would people in the UK be more likely to pay a rvice charge despite receiving bad rvice?
什么是寒食节3. True or fal?In Japan, tipping is only done if rvice is above standard.
4. Should you tip if your bill has hospitality included?
5.Which word ud in the article means ‘a difficult situation where you have to choo between two or more outcomes’?
Task 2. 请在不参考课文的情况下完成下列练习。选择一个意思合适的单词填入句子的空格处。
1. We’re having an urgent meeting about the future of the company so it’s _______ that you attend.
A. optional
B. obliged
D. standard
2. Your homework is not_______ so you’re going to have to do it again.
A. scratched up
B. up to scratch
C. up to scratching
D. up and scratching
3. Getting very hot summers ems to be the_______ now – some people are blaming it on
climate change.
A. norm
C. obliged
D. topping up
4. The waiter was so rude to us that it’s left a_______ - we won’t be eating there again!远程桌面连接不上解决方法
A. bad tasting in my mouth
B. bad taste on my mouth
C. bad tastes in the my mouth
D. bad taste in my mouth
5. After our tour, the tour guide made it very clear that a_______ was not included in the price!
教育方式A. recipient
B. hospitality included
城乡公交一体化
C. gratuity
D. rver
Task 3 语法填空
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It’s nice to go out for a meal at a restaurant. But _1___________ makes it extra special – apart from the food - is to receive attentive rvice from the staff. What can leave a bad taste in your mouth, though, is to be handed the bill and e _2_________ a rvice charge has been added. You’re face
d _3_________ the dilemma of deciding to pay it, and whether you should add a tip on top.
Putting your hand in your pocket to reward good rvice is a _4_____________ (person) choice, but it also depends _5________ where you are in the world. What is the norm in one city is not _6_______________ (necessary) the norm in another. In some places a tip is expected; but in others, good rvice should be expected and ought to _7______________ (include) in the price.
_8____________ (add) an optional rvice charge to your bill certainly makes paying a
