George Bernard Shaw once wrote: "There is no love sincerer than the love of food. "That love has limits, however. In thin years, diners value their wallets over their palates. Visits to posh restaurants in America declined by 15 % between May 2008 and May this year, according to the NPD Group, a research firm. Fast-food restaurants, on the other hand, saw traffic decline only 2%.
To lure eaters back, many fine restaurants have done what luxury brands hate to do: have a cut-price sale. Some offer discounts to those who dine at unpopular times, such as early in the evening or on Sunday. Restaurant Week, a twice-yearly tradition in New York City where restaurants offer discounted prix-fixed menus at lunch and dinner, was extended by six weeks this summer. This may help. The 21 Club, a fancy joint in Manhattan, usually sees its business increase by around 25%~40% during Restaurant Week, says Bryan McGuire, its general manager.
Many restaurants have also turn
A. indifferent
B. impatient
C. concerned
D. positive
George Bernard Shaw(1856—1950)was born
in Dublin, Ireland. At the age of 14, after graduating from middle school, Shaw
was put into a job as clerk in a land agent’s office. At 20 he went to London
where he remained jobless for 9 years, devoting much time to self-education.
Meantime, Shaw took an active part in the socialist movement. A contemporary of
Shaw’s thus wrote of him: "I used to be a daily frequenter of the British Museum
Reading Room. Even more assiduous in his attendance was a young man. ...My
curiosity was piqued by the odd conjunction of his subjects of research. Day
after day for weeks he had before him two books—Karl Marx’s ’Das Kapital’ (in
French), and an orchestral score(管弦乐乐谱) of ’Tristan and Isolde’." Though Shaw admitted Marx’s great influence on him, he failed to grasp the necessity of a revolutionary reconstruc A. he was more diligent than Shaw B. he was a friend of Shaw’s C. Shaw once made a careful study of Marx’s works D. Shaw once composed an orchestral score [单项选择]It was said by Sir George Bernard Shaw that "England and America are two countries separated by the same language." My first personal experience of this was when I worked as a camp counselor for two months in 2000 in Summer Camp run by the Boy Scouts of America, as part of an international leader exchange scheme. Before I went, all the participants in the scheme were given a short list of words that are in common use in the UK which Americans would either be confused by or would even offend them. I memorized the words and thought "I’ll cope".
When I finally arrived in the States three months later, I realized that perhaps a lifetime of watching American television was not adequate preparation for appreciating and coping with the differences between American and British speech. In the first hour of arriving at the camp I was exposed to High School American English, Black American English and American English spoken by Joe Public, all every different to each other. Needless to say, A. are now living in a "classless society". B. are more inclined to hyperbole. C. think much about their social status. D. are more enthusiastic about votin 我来回答: 提交
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