ACT Success - Reading Comprehension Practice #5

The author suggests that tipping should be eliminated because it rewards good service.

The author suggests increasing the minimum wage because it saves companies money.

The author suggests maintaining tipping but educating patrons about its history to encourage fairness.

Imported from Asia to cultivate a culture of gratitude.

Imported from Australia to ensure workers are paid fairly.

Imported from Africa to supplement income for the service industry workers.

The term is used to imply that tipping is a practice that is sophisticated and revered.

The term is used to highlight the innovation that tipping brings to the service industry.

The term is used to underscore the importance of maintaining traditions like tipping.

Society supported the move, while businesses were indifferent.

Both society and businesses welcomed the abolition of tipping.

Society opposed the move while businesses supported it.

There would be an increase in lawsuits against employers.

There would be a decrease in the level of service provided by workers.

Tipping would become compulsory for patrons of service industries.

Dominance

Ridicule

Contempt

A tunnel used by employers to escape paying fair wages.

A shortcut employers used to bypass the complexities of employment laws.

An opportunity seized by employers to increase their profit margins.

It increases the pressure on workers to deliver exceptional service.

It encourages customers to tip less because of poor service.

It causes a higher cost of living for restaurant servers.

Businesses can only survive by reducing their workforce.

Businesses would need to increase marketing efforts to stay afloat.

Businesses would need to increase prices and pass the cost onto consumers.

$2.13 per hour, last updated in 1947.

$3.25 per hour, last updated in 1980.

$1.85 per hour, last updated in 1960.