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• In the USA, there are many types of restaurants. Fast food restaurants are 
very famous. You can find McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken in           
many countries around the world. You look at a menu above the counter, and 
say what you’d like to eat. You pay the person who serves you. You take your 
food and sit down or take it away. There’s no need to leave a tip.
• In a coffee shop you sit at the counter or at a table. You don’t wait for the 
waitress to show you where to sit. She usually brings you coffee when you sit 
down. You tell her what you’d like to eat and she brings it to you. You pay 
th hi le cas er as you eave. 
• counter (n)
• (v) count 
• My brother can’t count 
( ) di t• n  scoun
• I can give you a 10% discount
i i• g ve sb a …d scount
• counter (n) 柜台
• serve (v) 服务
Th i l i i h• e g r  s serv ng customers at t e counter .
• But she is not  a servant 
仆• servant (n) 人
• (词组)civil servant 
• tip (n)的三个意思：
• (1)
• (2) tip: 
• (必背词组)leave a tip
(3) i•  t p:
• cashier (n)收银员 /kæ'ʃɪə/
• (n) cash
用现金支付•
• pay in cash
• 刷卡支付
• pay by card
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• In a family restaurant the atmosphere is casual, but the waitress shows you 
where to sit. Often the waitress tells you her name, but you don’t need to 
tell her yours. If you don’t eat everything, your waitress gives you a bag to 
take your food home. You add an extra fifteen percent to the bill as a tip.
I t l t t d ti d d t i• n op c ass res auran s, you nee  a reserva on an  you nee  o arr ve on 
time. The waiter shows you where to sit. If you have wine, he may ask you 
to taste it You can only refuse it if it tastes bad not if you don’t like it  .         ,      . 
When you get your bill, check it and then add fifteen to twenty percent to it 
as a tip for the waiter.
• In a family restaurant the atmosphere is casual
• atmosphere /ætməsfɪə /
• (n)大气层
• the+atmosphere
• (n)氛围，气氛
• The atmosphere changed as soon as my ex-girlfriend walked in.
• 友好的氛围
• 活跃的气氛
• 学习环境
• casual atmosphere
• casual (a)随便的，随意的 /'kæʒjʊəl/
• casual clothes .
• A casual conversation
• 一个随意的态度
• (反)正式的
• formal
•
• add (v)加
• If you add 5 and 5 (together), you get 10.
• Do you want to add your name to the list?
• 核心词组：add A to B: 把A加到B里
• 往咖啡里加奶
• 把这个词加到我的作文中(writing)
• 我把好友加黑
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• bill
• (n)账单
• 水费账单
• 话费单
• 电费单
• 买单
• (n)纸币
• reservation
• reserve
• =book
• 预定一张票
• 预定一个饭店
• 预定一个宾馆
• reservation (n) 预定
• 做个预定：make a reservation  
• I'd like to make a reservation for four people for Friday night, please. 
• refuse
• (反)accept
• 接受一个邀请
• 接受一个建议
• 接受一个礼物
• 核心必背词组：refuse to do:拒绝去做…
• 我拒绝付小费
• 我拒绝往水果里加沙拉(salad)
• 我拒绝用现金支付
巩固与提高：
• (1) A Japanese toy maker speaks out that they made a gadget (小配件)and it 
can translate (翻译)dog bark(狗叫)into people’s language and plans to sell 
the gadget in U S pet stores and gift shops this s mmer   . .       u . 
• (2)Tokyo-based Takara Co. Ltd(有限公司)says about 300,000 of the dog 
translating gadgets have been sold since it was on sale in Japan late last year              . 
They think bigger sales come to America in August. The United States is 
home to about 67 million dogs, more than six times the number in Japan. 
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• (3)Seen as one of the coolest inventions (发明)of 2002 by Time magazine, 
the gadget translates each bark into six feelings. It can tell whether the 
dog is happy, sad, disappointed or angry etc. 
• (4)“We know that the Americans love their dogs so much, so we don’t 
thi k th ill i d di $ 120 thi d t ”th k tin  ey w  m n  spen ng   on s ga ge , e mar e ng 
manager said during an interview in America. 
• (5)One thing that seems certain is that the market for animal translation            
gadgets will likely keep on a dog’s world becauseTakara has no plans to 
make a gadget for cats. “They are too changeable, ”the marketing          
manager said. 
• 1. This text mainly tells us that _______. 
• A. the gadget is very expensive 
• B. Japanese made a new gadget 
• C. American dogs can tell their feelings 
• D. Japanese will sell the gadget in America 
• 2. “They are too changeable. ”means “______are too changeable. ”
• A. Cats B. Dogs C. Stores D. People    
• 3. We can learn from the text that _______. 
• A. people need to talk to dogs 
• B. there are more dogs in America than in Japan 
• C. Japanese people don’t like dogs 
• D. they will make a gadget for kids in the future 
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