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这期我们将一改以往风格，不再局限于听力，而是放眼于阅读，做的不好的地方欢迎指出，让我们一起变得更好。
那今天我给大家讲的就是刚刚过去的16年12月份的四级真题第一套中的Section C。
做阅读最普遍的方法就是：先读题干，再标出关键词，接下来就是去原文中找出处啦！
接下来我们看题目
46. What can we learn about Bill Perry from the passage? 这题中我们可以一眼看出人名就是关键，即最有效的定位信息。Bill首段末段都提到了，但这题是首题，所以考首段的可能性更大。
A) He runs a pub that serves excellent beer.
B) He intends to get rid of the tipping practice.
C) He gives his staff a considerable sum for tips.
D) He lives comfortably without getting any tips.
原文：As a person who writes about food and drink for a living. I couldn’t tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great. But I can tell you that I like this guy. That’s because he plans to ban tipping in favor of paying his servers an actual living wage.
plans to ban tipping 打算禁止小费从这里就可以清晰地看出B选项是正确答案
47. What is the main reason why the author hates tipping? Hate tipping 出现在第二段的独句，不过对原因的列举出现在第三段。第三段用because、for等明显的因果关系词引出了多个原因，但注意第三段首两句所罗列的都是次要的原因。第三段第三句的But mostly 之后所引出的才是作者认为最重要的原因。
A) It sets a bad example for other industries.
B) It adds to theburdenof ordinary customers.
C) It forces the customer to compensate the waiter.
D) It poses a great challenge for customers to do math.
原文：I hate tipping.
I hate it because it’s an obligation disguised as an option. I hate it for the post-dinner math it requires of me.But mostly, I hate tipping because I believe I would be in a better place if pay decisions regarding employeeswere simply left up to their employers, as is the custom in virtually every other industry.
尽管第三段有because for这些词语，但是第三段第三句的But mostly之后引用的才是作者认为最重要的原因，也就是题干中的main reason。
在作者看来，加收消费实际意味着服务员的报酬不止是由老板决定，还有另外一个决定力——客户。因为客户给的小费多少意味着客户需要评价服务员，而小费也成为了服务员的收入的一部分。这便是作者讨厌小费的地方：作者认为无论在哪个行业，员工消费就是老板的任务，而非客人的任务，这样会让客户“感觉好很多”，换句话说：这样做，增加了客户的负担，也就是B选项
48. Why do many people love tipping according to the author? Love tipping出现在第四段第二句。
A) They help improve the quality of the restaurants they dine in.
B) They believe waiters deserve such rewards for good service.
C) They want to preserve a wonderful tradition of the industry.
D) They can have some say in how much their servers earn.
原文：Most of you probably think that you hate tipping, too. Research suggests otherwise. You actuallylove tipping!You like to feel that you have a voice in how much money your server makes. 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.
由此对应D选项。这里的have a voice被同义替换为have some say，意思是“有发言权，有决定权”
49. What have some waiters come to realize according to a survey?Suvery出现在第五段末句，有人这里就会说第五段末句并没有suvery呀，其实这就考到了你的词汇量的问题了。Poll，调查；测验。而题干中的some waiters对应的这里30% waiters。
A) Service quality has little effect on tip size.
B) It is in human mature to try to save on tips.
C) Tips make it more difficult to please customers.
D) Tips benefit the boss rather that the employees.
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. Well, if this were true, we would all be slipping a few 100-dollar bills to our doctors on the way out their doors, too. But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one. 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.与A同义。Had any impact=has little effect
50. What does the author argue for in the passage? 本题是最后一题，考查文末的可能性最大。且本文也只剩末段尚未被考查，
A) Restaurants should calculate the tips for customers.
B) Customers should pay more tips to help improve service.
C) Waiters deserve better than just relying on tips for a living.
D) Waiters should be paid by employers instead of customers.
原文：So come on, folks:get on board with ditching the outdated tip system. Pay a little more upfront for your beer or burger. Support Bill Perry’s pub, and any other bar or restaurant that doesn’t ask you to do drunken math.
再结合作者在稳重第三段已经提到的，可知作者是希望客户不用额外再给小费、服务员应该直接由老板支付，对应D选项。Ditch是超纲词汇，但这里结合该段后两句以及文章前面的观点态度，应该可以猜测出大致方向。
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