Yuoki, a restaurant in Germany, is not your everyday all-you-can-eat buffet (自助餐）. For starters, there isn't an actual buffet to fill your plate. Instead, customers are seated at a table and provided with iPads which they can use to order up to five small dishes every ten minutes. They can eat as much as they want for 120 minutes, but having the food served at short intervals (间隔) allows diners to constantly assess how hungry they are and order accordingly, preventing food waste. Also, the owner, Luan Guoyu, believes, “our eyes are bigger than our stomach”, so not being able to see the cooked food at the buffet prevents people from ordering more food than they can actually eat.
But Luan Guoyu's most effective way of fighting food waste, and the one that has attracted media attention, is his €1 ($1.15) fine for food still left on the plate. “It’s called ‘ all-you-can-eat’ ” he says, adding that the extra charge is not meant to increase his income, but to act as a warning against wasting food.
Luan Guoyu's system is unique in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, but not in Germany. Okinii, a Japanese-style restaurant in Dusseldorf, has also been charging customer, the same € 1 tax for unfinished food on their plates since 2013.
With so many people living on the edge of their nations, and food waste becoming a serious problem in developed countries, it will be interesting to see if more restaurants will start carrying out the “eat up or pay up” policy. Even if they give the money from this fine to charity, it would still help them to save money in dealing with waste, so it's a win for everyone.
1.What does the underlined word “assess” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. Doubt. B. Realize.
C. Judge. D. Compare.
2.What will Luan Guoyu do when people can’t finish the food on their plates?
A. He will charge them extra money.
B. He will advise them to eat up the food.
C. He will ask them to take the food away.
D. He will warn them to order less food next time.
3.What is the text mainly about?
A. Various German restaurants.
B. The seriousness of food waste.
C. Secrets of managing a restaurant.
D. Special ways to fight food waste.
4.What does the author think of the “eat up or pay up” policy?
A. Unfair. B. Funny.
C. Reasonable. D. Doubtful.
假如你叫李华，是一位高中生。随着科技的发展，iPod 已成为中学生的新宠。用iPod既可听音乐，阅读纯文本电子书，又可玩电子游戏。请你用英语给某报社写一封信，谈谈中学生使用iPod的情况。信的内容须包括以下几点：
使用iPod对学习的好处；
对课堂纪律和学习可能产生的负面影响；
提出自己的建议并说明理由。
注意：1. 词数：100左右
2. 信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Editor ,
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Sue ,
How time flies. It is a month that you stayed with us. We all miss you and are very grateful to what you did for us when we were together.
We had an English speech contest the others day and I won the first prize, which again remind me of all your kind help. Do you still remember the tree what was planted by us together on the hill behind the school? Yesterday we went there and got it water. The tree you planted yourselves is growing well and whole class decided to name it Sue wood. Will you come back to see Sue wood?
How is everything with you later? We hope to know more about you and your American students. Hope to keep in close touch with.
All the best
Liu Hua
It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children1.(be) responsible for housework, but with one of the following2.(suggestion), you really can get your children to help at home.
If you give your children the impression that they can never do3.quite right, then they will regard themselves as unfit or unable person.4.children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent.
My daughter Carla's fifth grade's teacher5.(make) every child in her class feel special. When students received less than a perfect test score, she would point out6.they had mastered and declared firmly they could learn what they 7.(miss).
You can use the same technique when you evaluate your child's work at home. Don't always scold and you should give lots of praise 8. (48). Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn't done. If your child completes a difficult task, promise him a Sunday trip or a ball game. 9.(learn) is a process of trying and failing and trying, and succeeding. If you teach your children not to fear a mistake or failure, they will learn10.(fast) and achieve success at last.
Scott and his companions were terribly disappointed. When they got to the South Pole, they found the Norwegians（挪威人）had _________ them in the race to be the first ever to reach it. After _______ the British flag at the Pole, they took a photograph of themselves ________ they started the 950-mile journey back.
The journey was unexpectedly ________ and the joy and excitement about the Pole had gone out of them. The sun hardly _________. The snow storms always made it impossible to sight the stones they had _________ to mark their way home. To make things _________. Evans, whom they had all thought of _________ the strongest of the five, fell badly into a deep hole in the ice. Having ________ along for several days, he suddenly fell down and died.
The four who were _______ pushed on at the best speed they could _________. Captain Oates had been suffering for some time from his _______ fact; at night his feet swelled（肿胀） so large that he could _________ put his boots on the next morning, and he walked bravely although he was in great ________ . He knew his slowness was making it less likely that _________ could save themselves. He asked them to leave him behind in his sleeping-bag, but they refused, and helped him ______ a few more miles, until it was time to put up the ______ for another night.
The following morning, _________ the other three were still in their sleeping-bags, he said. “I am just going outside and may be _________ some time.” He was never seen again. He had walked out _________ into the snow storm, hoping that his death would help his companions.
1.A. hit B. fought C. won D. beaten
2.A. growing B. putting C. planting D. laying
3.A. after B. until C. while D. before
4.A. safe B. fast C. short D. slow
5.A. rose B. set C. appeared D. disappeared
6.A. taken up B. cut up C. set up D. picked up
7.A. easier B. better C. bitter D. worse
8.A. to B. upon C. as D. in
9.A. battled B. struggled C. speeded D. waited
10.A. left B. lost C. defeated D. saved
11.A. manage B. try C. employ D. find
12.A. ached B. frozen C. harden D. harmed
13.A. hardly B. never C. seldom D. nearly
14.A. pain B. fear C. trouble D. danger
15.A. all others B. some others C. others D. the others
16.A. away B. with C. off D. on
17.A. bed B. tent C. blanket D. sleeping-bag
18.A. while B. since C. for D. once
19.A. missed B. separated C. passed D. gone
20.A. patiently B. lonely C. alone D. worriedly
Choosing the right job is probably one of the most important decisions we have to make in life, and it is frequently one of the hardest decisions we have to make. One important question that you might ask yourself is: “How do I get a good job?”
1.. There are people who can answer an insignificant advertisement in the local paper and land the best job in the world; others write to all sorts of places all over the country, and never seem to get a reply at all. Still others believe that the in person, door-to-door approach is by far the best way to get a job; and then there are those who, through no active decision of their own, just seem to be in the right place at the right time. 2.. He used to spend a lot of his free time down by the sea watching the tall ships, but never thinking that he might one day sail one of them. His father was a farmer, and being a sailor could never be anything for the boy but an idle dream. One day, on his usual wandering, he heard the captain of the ship complaining that he could not sail because one member of his crew was sick. Without stopping to think, the lad（少年）offered to take his place. 3.
4.. If the lad had gone home to ponder（考虑） his decision for a week, he may have missed his chance. It is one thing to be offered an opportunity; it is another thing to take it and use it well. Sometimes we hear stories about people who break all the rules and still seem to land plum jobs（美差）. When you go for a job interview or fill out an application, you are expected to say nice things about the company to which you are applying. 5.. And within a year this person had become general manger of the company.
A.This story also illustrates the importance of seizing an opportunity when it presents itself.
B. People find jobs in a variety of ways.
C. It’s almost impossible to find a good job by answering advertisement in newspapers
D. Take for example the young man who wanted to be a sailor.
E. But there was one person who landed an excellent job by telling the interviewer all the company’s faults.
F. He spent the rest of his life happily sailing the ships he had always loved.
G. It is very important to seize an opportunity when it presents itself.
