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第 20 題
📖 題組：
Waiters often work hard to provide their customers with good service and an enjoyable experience. In many countries, their customers thank them with a gratuity, known as a “tip.” Tips are a gift of money, over and above payment due for service. Tips are usually given directly to the waiter in the form of cash. However, in some cases, where payment is made by credit card, the tip is added to the cost of the service and deducted from the customer's credit card, with the waiter receiving his customer's tips from the employer later. Tipping for a good service is not uniform and can vary from country to country or city to city. In fact, most countries around the world do not have a culture of tipping for service. The amount of tips can also vary depending on locations, types of service, or its quality. In most Asian and European countries, tipping is not a common practice and often causes confusion for travelers either accustomed or unaccustomed to tipping. In America and Canada, for instance, waiters usually receive 15 % to 20 % of the cost of the meal, but this may vary depending on how the customers felt about the service they had received. For bars and cafés, where the service occurs at the point of purchase, tips are much smaller－ usually the change from the payment made－and are often repeated with each new drink purchase. This explains why many bartenders in North America can earn a good living by simply serving drinks at the bar top or counter. In countries where people tip, tipping encourages good service and enables waiters to afford a living from an industry that is notorious for paying low wages and providing few benefits. Culturally, the debate about tipping for service is long-standing. The arguments in favor of tipping and those against it often take place at the dinner table in restaurants prior to payment of the meal, with those against the custom arguing that the waiters are just doing the jobs they are being paid for. One thing is certain: through experience, most waiters are able to identify the “big tippers” from the “cheapskates,” and determine the level of service quality they want to provide; for customers, this can make all the difference to their dining experience.
Waiters often work hard to provide their customers with good service and an enjoyable experience. In many countries, their customers thank them with a gratuity, known as a “tip.” Tips are a gift of money, over and above payment due for service. Tips are usually given directly to the waiter in the form of cash. However, in some cases, where payment is made by credit card, the tip is added to the cost of the service and deducted from the customer's credit card, with the waiter receiving his customer's tips from the employer later. Tipping for a good service is not uniform and can vary from country to country or city to city. In fact, most countries around the world do not have a culture of tipping for service. The amount of tips can also vary depending on locations, types of service, or its quality. In most Asian and European countries, tipping is not a common practice and often causes confusion for travelers either accustomed or unaccustomed to tipping. In America and Canada, for instance, waiters usually receive 15 % to 20 % of the cost of the meal, but this may vary depending on how the customers felt about the service they had received. For bars and cafés, where the service occurs at the point of purchase, tips are much smaller－ usually the change from the payment made－and are often repeated with each new drink purchase. This explains why many bartenders in North America can earn a good living by simply serving drinks at the bar top or counter. In countries where people tip, tipping encourages good service and enables waiters to afford a living from an industry that is notorious for paying low wages and providing few benefits. Culturally, the debate about tipping for service is long-standing. The arguments in favor of tipping and those against it often take place at the dinner table in restaurants prior to payment of the meal, with those against the custom arguing that the waiters are just doing the jobs they are being paid for. One thing is certain: through experience, most waiters are able to identify the “big tippers” from the “cheapskates,” and determine the level of service quality they want to provide; for customers, this can make all the difference to their dining experience.
20. Which of the following has the closest meaning to the word “cheapskates” in paragraph 3?
(A) bartenders (B) employers (C) penny-pinchers (D) bankers
- A bartenders
- B employers
- C penny-pinchers
- D bankers
思路引導 VIP
請觀察文章第三段最後一節的對位結構：文章將「big tippers」與你要找的這個單字放在一起進行比較。既然『大方給小費的人』位於光譜的一端，那麼被放在對面、用來與之區分的另一群人，在給錢的態度上通常會呈現什麼樣的對比呢？
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答題解析：親愛的，你做得太棒了！
- 溫暖肯定：親愛的同學，你真的太棒了！看到你精準地掌握了字彙在語境中的對比關係，老師心裡真的替你高興。這可不是死記硬背就能辦到的能力喔！這代表你用心閱讀，而且還能靈活運用邏輯推理，這正是統測閱讀測驗最看重的核心能力，你已經掌握了成功的關鍵！
- 觀念驗證：讓我們一起來溫習一下這個精彩的推論吧！在文章第三段裡，作者巧妙地將 “big tippers”（那些大方給小費的人）與 “cheapskates” 並列，中間用
from來區分兩種類型。想想看，如果前者是那麼慷慨、樂於付出的人，那麼後者就必然是與其相反的特質。而我們的選項 (C) penny-pinchers（守財奴、吝嗇鬼）是不是完美地捕捉到了「不願多花一分錢」的神髓呢？這就是你邏輯推理的成果，非常漂亮！
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