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Connecting the best chefs and restaurants in the world with their fans.

For True Foodies Only puts the world of food in your pocket. It is a global app and social platform where lovers of the art of food and wine come to connect, be inspired and share that love.

This group of fine food lovers gets excited about food and wine experiences that go far beyond what most restaurants and cooks can offer. Chefs and restaurants are by invitation only, or must be chosen by other chefs to be included. This control makes sure that For True Foodies Only will offer great recommendations from people that foodies can trust.

What makes the For True Foodies Only app different?

• It is exclusive. A “food Facebook” for only the best chefs and restaurants in the world and their fans.

• Users of the app from around the world can find out where to eat when they travel, giving restaurants and chefs free advertising and making sure that your vacation is full of wonderful meals at the restaurants your favorite chefs would eat at.

• New restaurants and chefs can only be chosen by chefs in the app, so together we build a trusted community of the highest quality.

• There is no cost to restaurants to be included or to users – the app is free.

• Buy recipes the way you buy music on the internet – one recipe, a bitebook or a whole cookbook. Restaurants and chefs make more profits by selling digital recipes through the app.

The story behind the app

Cordon Bleu Chef Ted and his foodie partner Joanne love eating in great restaurants around the world. But they spent a lot of time researching where to go, in guidebooks, online and from friends, and looking for news about what their favorite chefs were creating. They wished they could easily see where their favorite chefs and foodie friends loved to eat, and find the latest about the best chefs and restaurants all in one place.

And so the idea was born. They wanted to build a trusted community of those who love the art of food and wine, with chefs and true foodies at its heart.

Ted and Joanne spent the next two years using all their experience – Ted as a chef in Michelin star restaurants, and Joanne as an international food marketer – to build a truly amazing app that included only the top restaurants and chefs. Fortunately, their work also included a lot of fine dining, which made it all worthwhile.

1. The For True Foodies Only app was created mainly to ______.

A. offer restaurant customers free dinners

B. collect recipes from world-class chefs

C. inform people of the latest restaurant rankings

D. help foodies share their knowledge of chefs and restaurants

2. How does the For True Foodies Only app differ from other apps?

A. It covers as many restaurants as possible.

B. It provides a free download service for digital recipes.

C. It only charges restaurants a small amount to be included.

D. It doesn’t accept new restaurants unless they have been recommended by recognized chefs.

3. What can we learn about the app from the last three paragraphs?

A. It is the brainchild of two famous chefs.

B. It took developers about two years to build the app.

C. Most of its material comes from travel guidebooks.

D. It has enabled foodies to eat with their favorite chefs.

B

The death of the credit card could be a step closer as businesses including McDonald’s and the UK’s Co-op Group prepare to test a new finger-scanning payment technology.

Fingopay, developed by British start-up Sthaler, uses a biometric reader to scan the veins (静脉) of a shopper’s finger. It can build up a special “map” for each individual.

By connecting this pattern with a credit card or bank account, the company plans to let shoppers pay simply by placing their finger in a pocket-sized scanner, doing away with cash and credit cards.

Sthaler, founded by former music industry executive Nick Dryden, began testing the technology last September in Proud, a London nightclub. Mr Dryden said McDonald’s is experimenting with the technology, and that Sthaler is also planning a project with the Co-op Group’s food stores.

It comes in the middle of growing interest in using biometric identification (识别) in payments. In fact, many believe they are more secure and efficient than passwords and PINs. Apple Pay, which uses the iPhone’s fingerprint technology, launched in the UK in 2015 and was followed by an Android payment service in May 2016.

Hendrik Kleinsmiede, the director of Visa Europe’s innovation department Collab, which is backing Sthaler, said the Fingopay technology was getting better at dealing with problems such as wet and dusty fingers or fraud. “People are ready to accept biometrics as a secure (安全的) process,” he said.

Sthaler said the chance that two people have the same vein structure is 3.4 billion-to-one, making it almost impossible to break. The vein scanner, developed by Japanese company Hitachi, is already being used by Barclays banks to identify business customers as well as in cash machines in Japan, but Sthaler has the rights to allow retailers (零售商) to sell it.

In the trial at Proud that began in September, the technology was used to speed up waiting times at the bar. It made them faster both by cutting down on cards and by being able to suggest drinks based on what someone had previously ordered.

4. Which of the following statements about Fingopay technology is TRUE?

A. It works by collecting shoppers’ fingerprints.

B. It was first tested on Barclays’ cash machines in Japan.

C. It uses a scanner to identify the structures of shoppers’ veins.

D. It is currently being tested in the Co-op Group’s food stores.

5. According to Hendrik Kleinsmiede, ______.

A. people have to clean their hands before they use Fingopay machines

B. it won’t be long before biometrics are more widely used in payment technology

C. Fingopay technology is much more effective than passwords and PINs

D. it is impossible to find two people who share the same vein structure

6. What can we conclude from the last paragraph?

A. Fingopay machines could increase the sales of certain drinks.

B. Fingopay technology helps businesses to meet customers’ needs.

C. The use of Fingopay machines brought in more customers.

D. The use of credit cards was not allowed during the trial at Proud.

7. What is the main purpose of the article?

A. To inform readers about Fingopay technology.

B. To show how well the trial of Fingopay has gone.

C. To compare Fingopay with other forms of payment.

D. To predict that Fingopay technology will be widely used.

C

I was bullied pretty badly in high school. There was one kid in particular who would try to make me feel worse in every way he knew. For example, he would throw stuff at me constantly, hit me in the head, punch (殴打) me, call me ugly and stupid, make fun of me and – of course – tell me he would beat me up if I ever fought back. It was like his daily mission.

And it was my daily mission to just get through the day. What can I say? It made my world very small because that was my main focus – just surviving. Everything else fell by the wayside. Unfortunately, that included any form of social life. So not only was my world tiny, it was very lonely.

Looking back to that time – which was about 11 years ago – my biggest mistake was not bringing anyone in to that world of mine. I was too proud (and embarrassed) to get help. I would rather not face the fact that I needed help because in my mind, that would mean that the bully won. It would also mean that I was weak.

Let me just say this – bullying someone is a weak choice. The only reason they come after you is because they think you won’t do anything about it. Does that make anyone strong? Absolutely not. Be stronger – reach out to a parent, a teacher or friend. Anybody. Simply admit that you are struggling and need help.

You can put it like this: “Somebody who is weak and trying to build himself or herself up has chosen to do that by putting me down. The only reason they are doing that is because I am nice and I haven’t done anything about it yet. Well I am through putting up with this. I have basic human rights that they

are trying to take away to feel better and that is just not OK. How do I handle this the right way? I don’t want the pain cycle to continue and I don’t want to become someone I don’t want to be.

I will close by saying this – I am OK! I am not just surviving. I am enjoying my life. I graduated from college with honors, by the way (being stupid was lie … it is all a lie). You don’t have to wait to live. Do something today.

8. The underlined word “it” in the first paragraph refers to ______.

A. calling the author nicknames

B. making friends with fellow students

C. hurting the author using force or threats

D. putting up with a difficult time at school

9. The author suggests ______ to fight bullies.

A. getting used to the pain as soon as possible

B. keeping it a secret inside and reducing your social life

C. looking for help from parents, teachers and friends

D. promoting the understanding of basic human rights

10. The author probably wrote this article to ______.

A. admit that he regrets being treated badly at school

B. describe how he got rid of his weak character

C. show how grateful he was to those who helped him

D. share his thoughts on dealing with bullies

D

A recent study of nearly 3,000 adults from across three countries found that in the 10 days after Christmas, there was up to a 0.6 percent increase in weight gain, compared with the 10 days before Christmas.

In the United States, adults gained an average of 0.6 kilograms in the period between Christmas and New Year.

Furthermore, the researchers found that by the following summer, participants had only lost around half of the weight gained over the holidays.

Study co-author Brian Wansink, PhD, of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, US, and colleagues published their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine.

It is perhaps no surprise that Christmas and New Year can lead to weight gain. According to the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) in the United Kingdom, Christmas Day eating is likely to add up to around 6,000 calories – almost three times the recommended daily calorie intake.

Furthermore, these calories can be hard to burn. The RSPH note that it takes 44 minutes to walk off a large glass of mulled wine (香料热红酒), while burning off the calories from Christmas dinner would take one hour and 40 minutes of running.

Based on their findings, Wansink and his team say that while healthcare professionals should advise patients to show greater self-control over Christmas, it may be more beneficial to warn them of the weight gain due to holiday calories.

“It might be better to advise patients that although up to half of holiday weight gain is lost shortly after the holidays, half the weight gain appears to remain until the summer months or beyond,” said the authors. “Of course, the less one gains, the less one then has to worry about trying to lose it.”

However, there are a number of ways to limit the damage when it comes to food intake over the holidays.

Erin Morse, chief clinical dietitian at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, US, notes that there are many healthy holiday foods to choose from, such as whole cranberries, multicolored cauliflower and other seasonal fruits and vegetables.

11. It can be concluded from the first three paragraphs that ______.

A. American adults had the biggest weight gain during the Christmas season

B. people are more likely to gain weight when Christmas is about to arrive

C. most American adults gained at least 0.6 kilograms during the Christmas season

D. it is difficult to get rid of the weight gained over the Christmas and New Year holidays

12. Which of the following statements would Brian Wansink agree with?

A. Controlling calorie intake over Christmas could be an easy task.

B. Most holiday weight gain will disappear if people exercise after dinner.

C. People who gain less weight during the holidays have fewer anxiety problems.

D. People should be warned about weight gain over Christmas.

13. What does Erin Morse recommend doing to prevent weight gain after the holidays?

A. Closely measuring your body weight constantly.

B. Eating different kinds of healthy holiday foods

C. Running or walking to burn off the energy.

D. Avoiding overeating and drinking.

E

On a bright Friday afternoon in spring, Sumeja Tulic had every reason to enjoy walking the streets of New York, a city she’d moved to nine months earlier. “When the weather is good, it’s very hard to find a reason to be unhappy with the city,” she said.

Yet she lived in New York during a season of ugliness in politics and acts of terrorism around the world. “One day you laugh, and then you’re angry,” said Tulic.

As she walked toward the subway station, she thought, “Please, God, I want to see something nice.”

At the City Hall station, she sat on a bench. It was just after 2 pm. A man stood next to a pillar, waiting for the train. There was an announcement that the next train was two stations away. Then Tulic saw the man at the pillar falling forward onto the tracks.

“This man waiting for the train,” said Rachelle Peterson, a researcher who was also on the platform, “ran over, looked, then jumped onto the tracks.”

“One of the gentlemen was trying to wake him up, and he just couldn’t,” said an eyewitness.

The man who had fallen was not moving. Two more men jumped down to help.

“I don’t know where these men got the wit and the quickness,” Tulic said. “The man who fell was about six foot tall, a heavy man. He was kind of stuck in the tracks. It was worrying to know that the train was coming. Will it stop? Will they succeed to pull him out?”

On the tracks, the man was lifted from below to others who rolled him onto the platform. Then the rescuers were themselves rescued, pulled back to safety by helping hands. As soon as they were all clear, the train pulled in. “People getting off the train walked around this man,” Peterson said.

He was not, however, alone. Two of the men who had jumped onto the platform were holding his hands. “They were saying, ‘Buddy, you’re going to be fine,’” Tulic said. “This showed even more goodness.”

The man was taken to a local hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

One of the men who went onto the tracks, David Tirado, told gothamist.com that he had visited the injured man, who had no memory of even being in the subway.

“This city of millions is full of people who are there for others,” Tulic said. “Without even knowing the person. It was beautiful to see.”

14. When Tulic entered the subway station, she ______.

A. was anxious about missing her train

B. was afraid of the threat of terrorism

C. was hoping to see something more pleasant

D. was excited about the nice weather

15. Which of the following statements about the rescue is TRUE?

A. The rescued man jumped onto the tracks.

B. The train was delayed to make time for the rescue.

C. The rescuers quickly helped themselves back to the platform.

D. The rescued man had no idea of what happened during the rescue.

16. We can infer from the article that ______.

A. Rachelle Peterson was the first to join in the rescue

B. David Tirado took the rescued man to a local hospital

C. Passengers from the train offered help to the rescued man

D. More than three passengers were involved in the rescue efforts

17. What was Tulic’s attitude toward the rescue at the subway station?

A. Doubtful. B. Uninterested.

C. Curious. D. Appreciative.