D. make sure that the bus had come

34. Throughout the process of getting ready for work, the author’s father seemed to consider ______ the most important.

A. having breakfast                 B. reading the paper

C. getting properly dressed           D. catching the bus

35. This passage tells a story about ______.

A. a family of five daughters

B. a house ruled by knocks

C. a lucky man

D. an early morning

Passage 2

        Tipping is still very much a part of the English scene, though maybe not as widespread as in some other countries. Here you are always expected to give tips to waiters in restaurants, porters and pages in hotels, taxi-drivers and barbers, but not to barmen in pubs( 酒吧 ) or ushers in theatres and cinemas as in France and Spain. As for the question of how much, amounts vary according to the sort of service that is being offered to you and, more often than not, it is up to you. But restaurant waiters expect 10% of the total charge for a meal.

        Usually the waiters like to put their tips together at the end of each working shift to share the tips equally among themselves. So, many hotels and restaurants now use the system of adding 10% onto all bills to cover service. When they do that, of course, you are not expected to tip waiters individually, though they certainly will not object if you should do so in appreciation of their exceptionally good or polite service.

        When a 10% service charge is automatically( 自动地 ) added to every bill, the point is that every customer leaves a tip and every waiter gets one. In the end, everybody is happy except the customer, who is paying to eat the food he wants and not paying to have it brought to his table from the kitchen. In the 60s, however, a tip was not a must. Those waiters who gave good service received good tips; those who did not received few or no tips. The overall result was that the standard of service and politeness was always high. Today, now that tips have become an official obligation( 义务 ) for everybody, waiters are no longer all that concerned about giving good service. You can be shocked sometimes at the slowness and rudeness of a waiter and feel bitter about having to pay 10% extra for such treatment. Perhaps the best thing would be to get rid of the tipping altogether and replace it with higher wages for those who are forced to depend on it.

36. Which statement is TRUE according to Paragraph 1?

A. You must always remember to tip waiters and barmen in Britain.

B. You always give a certain amount of tip for a certain service in Britain.