Passage 2 McDonald’s In 1954, Two brothers ran a small but busy restaurant in San Bernardino, California. The restaurant featured a limited menu that included: hamburgers, French fries, soft drinks and milkshakes. The milkshakes were very popular and the restaurant had purchased ten special “Miltimixer” milkshake makers. Each one could mix five milkshakes at a time. A salesman named Ray Kroc was the exclusive distributor of the “Multimix” milkshake machines at that time. Ray decided to visit the restaurant ; he wanted to find out why they had so many machines. Ray talked to Richard and Maurice (Mac) McDonald, the owners of the restaurant. He saw how they prepared the food using equipment that they had invented. The service in the restaurant was fast and the prices were inexpensive. Ray realized that this was a fantastic opportunity. He wanted to open more restaurants and so sell more multimixers. In April 1955, Ray opened his first franchised McDonal
A. his first restaurant in California
B. his first restaurant in Illinois.
C. his first restaurant in 1961.
Most people who travel long distances complain of jetlag ( 喷气飞行时差反应). Jetlag makes business travelers less productive and more prone (1) making mistakes. It is actually caused by (2) of your "body clock"-- a small cluster of brain cells that controls the timing of biological (3) . The body clock is designed for a (4) rhythm of daylight and darkness, so that it is thrown out of balance when it (5) daylight and darkness at the "wrong" times in a new time zone. The (6) of jetlag often persist for days (7) the internal body clock slowly adjusts to the new time zone.
Now a new anti-jetlag system is (8) that is based on proven (9) pioneering scientific research. Dr. Martin Moore-Ede has (10) a practical strategy to adjust the body clock much sooner to the new time zone (11) controlled exposure to bright light. The time zone shift is easy to accomplish and eliminates (12) of the discomfort of jetlag.
A successful time zone shift depends on knowing the
A. while
B. whereas
C. if
D. ’although
Ask an American schoolchild what he or she is learning in school these days and you might even get a reply, provided you ask it in Spanish. But don’t bother, here’s the answer. Americans nowadays are not learning any of the things that we learned in our day, like reading and writing. Apparently these are considered fusty old subjects, invented by white males to oppress women and minorities.
What are they learning In a Vermont college town I found the answer sitting in a toy store book rack, next to typical kids’ books like "Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy is ’Dysfunctional’". It’s a teacher’s guide called "Happy To Be Me", subtitled "Building Self-Esteem". Self-esteem as it turns out, is a big subject in American classrooms. Many American schools see building it as important as teaching reading and writing. They call it "whole language" teaching, borrowing terminology from the granola peop
A. confirm current education trends and teaching methods
B. rethink and reorganize educational strategies
C. think about the various elements which constitute what we call "communication" nowadays
D. reassure the parents about the methodology currently being used in American schools
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