Bike Hire ProjectReading is a large town in the county of Berkshire, England. Founded in the eighth century, it was an important town in the Middle Ages. Today, Reading has become a commercial center. The town now has launched a bike hire project. Two hundred bikes are available（可用的） for use at 29 stations throughout the town. These include Reading Station and the key locations in the town center. The project is operated on a membership basis. However, both members and non-members can hire bikes at one station and return them at any one of the stations, The project allows for one-way journeys between the town center and other points in Reading. For members, the use of bikes is free for the first half hour. Then it costs El an hour after that, with a maximum foe of £4. Membership costs £50 a year. For people who do not want to be members, they can hire a bike for occasional use by registering online. The rate for non-members is the same as that for members. But they do not get the first 30 minutes free and the maximum charge is £7. To rent a bike，users tap in their membership number and personal identification1（身份） number. Once the bike is chosen，a light on top of the selected dock（车位）will begin to flash. This means the bike is ready to use. To return a bike, the user only has to put it into any empty dock at any station. The first thirty minutes is free of charge for all users.

Bike Hire ProjectReading is a large town in the county of Berkshire, England. Founded in the eighth century, it was an important town in the Middle Ages. Today, Reading has become a commercial center. The town now has launched a bike hire project. Two hundred bikes are available（可用的） for use at 29 stations throughout the town. These include Reading Station and the key locations in the town center. The project is operated on a membership basis. However, both members and non-members can hire bikes at one station and return them at any one of the stations, The project allows for one-way journeys between the town center and other points in Reading. For members, the use of bikes is free for the first half hour. Then it costs El an hour after that, with a maximum foe of £4. Membership costs £50 a year. For people who do not want to be members, they can hire a bike for occasional use by registering online. The rate for non-members is the same as that for members. But they do not get the first 30 minutes free and the maximum charge is £7. To rent a bike，users tap in their membership number and personal identification1（身份） number. Once the bike is chosen，a light on top of the selected dock（车位）will begin to flash. This means the bike is ready to use. To return a bike, the user only has to put it into any empty dock at any station. Non-members need to register online to use the bikes.

Bike Hire ProjectReading is a large town in the county of Berkshire, England. Founded in the eighth century, it was an important town in the Middle Ages. Today, Reading has become a commercial center. The town now has launched a bike hire project. Two hundred bikes are available（可用的） for use at 29 stations throughout the town. These include Reading Station and the key locations in the town center. The project is operated on a membership basis. However, both members and non-members can hire bikes at one station and return them at any one of the stations, The project allows for one-way journeys between the town center and other points in Reading. For members, the use of bikes is free for the first half hour. Then it costs El an hour after that, with a maximum foe of £4. Membership costs £50 a year. For people who do not want to be members, they can hire a bike for occasional use by registering online. The rate for non-members is the same as that for members. But they do not get the first 30 minutes free and the maximum charge is £7. To rent a bike，users tap in their membership number and personal identification1（身份） number. Once the bike is chosen，a light on top of the selected dock（车位）will begin to flash. This means the bike is ready to use. To return a bike, the user only has to put it into any empty dock at any station. The maximum charge for non-members is the same as that for members.

Bike Hire ProjectReading is a large town in the county of Berkshire, England. Founded in the eighth century, it was an important town in the Middle Ages. Today, Reading has become a commercial center. The town now has launched a bike hire project. Two hundred bikes are available（可用的） for use at 29 stations throughout the town. These include Reading Station and the key locations in the town center. The project is operated on a membership basis. However, both members and non-members can hire bikes at one station and return them at any one of the stations, The project allows for one-way journeys between the town center and other points in Reading. For members, the use of bikes is free for the first half hour. Then it costs El an hour after that, with a maximum foe of £4. Membership costs £50 a year. For people who do not want to be members, they can hire a bike for occasional use by registering online. The rate for non-members is the same as that for members. But they do not get the first 30 minutes free and the maximum charge is £7. To rent a bike，users tap in their membership number and personal identification1（身份） number. Once the bike is chosen，a light on top of the selected dock（车位）will begin to flash. This means the bike is ready to use. To return a bike, the user only has to put it into any empty dock at any station. Flashing of a dock light means the selected bike is ready to use.

Bike Hire ProjectReading is a large town in the county of Berkshire, England. Founded in the eighth century, it was an important town in the Middle Ages. Today, Reading has become a commercial center. The town now has launched a bike hire project. Two hundred bikes are available（可用的） for use at 29 stations throughout the town. These include Reading Station and the key locations in the town center. The project is operated on a membership basis. However, both members and non-members can hire bikes at one station and return them at any one of the stations, The project allows for one-way journeys between the town center and other points in Reading. For members, the use of bikes is free for the first half hour. Then it costs El an hour after that, with a maximum foe of £4. Membership costs £50 a year. For people who do not want to be members, they can hire a bike for occasional use by registering online. The rate for non-members is the same as that for members. But they do not get the first 30 minutes free and the maximum charge is £7. To rent a bike，users tap in their membership number and personal identification1（身份） number. Once the bike is chosen，a light on top of the selected dock（车位）will begin to flash. This means the bike is ready to use. To return a bike, the user only has to put it into any empty dock at any station. To return a bike, users have to tap in their personal identification number.

Coffee in the WorkplaceIt doesn't matter whether you drink coffee or not. In the workplace, coffee is the new lunch. Coffee doesn't mean a drink. It means a short meeting outside of office. It could be social, it could be networking, and it could be all about business; but it means "not too long". Or, it could mean "I don't like you enough in that way" to have lunch. Not long ago, dinner was too much time and energy to risk spending with someone you didn't know well. All the dating sites proved that dinner was just too much. Now, it's lunch's turn. The alternative（替代品）？Coffee. When people invite you to a "coffee", it means they will spend some time with you and they will probably help you-but not that much . However, the benefits to the new culture of coffee are many. There is often nowhere to sit in coffee places, so meetings tend to be short. Coffee does not make you fat，if you don＇t order a 1000 calorie（卡路里）coffee drink every time. Coffee is cheap, relatively speaking, so there is no worry over the check. In our drive for getting more work done in a short time, lunch is being replaced with coffee. Lunch is now arranged for true friends and making deals. In some places, a nice business lunch has become a luxury（奢侈）. And there are lots of business lunches where everyone is on his or her phone anyway. That can be done over a coffee. Going for a coffee is here to stay. So the next time someone asks you to have a coffee-GO. It's not that much of a concern for either side . And, although it's time-saving. "coffee" could be the first step to something much bigger. In the workplace, coffee _______

Coffee in the WorkplaceIt doesn't matter whether you drink coffee or not. In the workplace, coffee is the new lunch. Coffee doesn't mean a drink. It means a short meeting outside of office. It could be social, it could be networking, and it could be all about business; but it means "not too long". Or, it could mean "I don't like you enough in that way" to have lunch. Not long ago, dinner was too much time and energy to risk spending with someone you didn't know well. All the dating sites proved that dinner was just too much. Now, it's lunch's turn. The alternative（替代品）？Coffee. When people invite you to a "coffee", it means they will spend some time with you and they will probably help you-but not that much . However, the benefits to the new culture of coffee are many. There is often nowhere to sit in coffee places, so meetings tend to be short. Coffee does not make you fat，if you don＇t order a 1000 calorie（卡路里）coffee drink every time. Coffee is cheap, relatively speaking, so there is no worry over the check. In our drive for getting more work done in a short time, lunch is being replaced with coffee. Lunch is now arranged for true friends and making deals. In some places, a nice business lunch has become a luxury（奢侈）. And there are lots of business lunches where everyone is on his or her phone anyway. That can be done over a coffee. Going for a coffee is here to stay. So the next time someone asks you to have a coffee-GO. It's not that much of a concern for either side . And, although it's time-saving. "coffee" could be the first step to something much bigger. Having dinner with someone you do not know well is not _______

Coffee in the WorkplaceIt doesn't matter whether you drink coffee or not. In the workplace, coffee is the new lunch. Coffee doesn't mean a drink. It means a short meeting outside of office. It could be social, it could be networking, and it could be all about business; but it means "not too long". Or, it could mean "I don't like you enough in that way" to have lunch. Not long ago, dinner was too much time and energy to risk spending with someone you didn't know well. All the dating sites proved that dinner was just too much. Now, it's lunch's turn. The alternative（替代品）？Coffee. When people invite you to a "coffee", it means they will spend some time with you and they will probably help you-but not that much . However, the benefits to the new culture of coffee are many. There is often nowhere to sit in coffee places, so meetings tend to be short. Coffee does not make you fat，if you don＇t order a 1000 calorie（卡路里）coffee drink every time. Coffee is cheap, relatively speaking, so there is no worry over the check. In our drive for getting more work done in a short time, lunch is being replaced with coffee. Lunch is now arranged for true friends and making deals. In some places, a nice business lunch has become a luxury（奢侈）. And there are lots of business lunches where everyone is on his or her phone anyway. That can be done over a coffee. Going for a coffee is here to stay. So the next time someone asks you to have a coffee-GO. It's not that much of a concern for either side . And, although it's time-saving. "coffee" could be the first step to something much bigger. Paragraph3 mainly talks about _______

Coffee in the WorkplaceIt doesn't matter whether you drink coffee or not. In the workplace, coffee is the new lunch. Coffee doesn't mean a drink. It means a short meeting outside of office. It could be social, it could be networking, and it could be all about business; but it means "not too long". Or, it could mean "I don't like you enough in that way" to have lunch. Not long ago, dinner was too much time and energy to risk spending with someone you didn't know well. All the dating sites proved that dinner was just too much. Now, it's lunch's turn. The alternative（替代品）？Coffee. When people invite you to a "coffee", it means they will spend some time with you and they will probably help you-but not that much . However, the benefits to the new culture of coffee are many. There is often nowhere to sit in coffee places, so meetings tend to be short. Coffee does not make you fat，if you don＇t order a 1000 calorie（卡路里）coffee drink every time. Coffee is cheap, relatively speaking, so there is no worry over the check. In our drive for getting more work done in a short time, lunch is being replaced with coffee. Lunch is now arranged for true friends and making deals. In some places, a nice business lunch has become a luxury（奢侈）. And there are lots of business lunches where everyone is on his or her phone anyway. That can be done over a coffee. Going for a coffee is here to stay. So the next time someone asks you to have a coffee-GO. It's not that much of a concern for either side . And, although it's time-saving. "coffee" could be the first step to something much bigger. Coffee is taking the place of lunch because coffee _______ .

Coffee in the WorkplaceIt doesn't matter whether you drink coffee or not. In the workplace, coffee is the new lunch. Coffee doesn't mean a drink. It means a short meeting outside of office. It could be social, it could be networking, and it could be all about business; but it means "not too long". Or, it could mean "I don't like you enough in that way" to have lunch. Not long ago, dinner was too much time and energy to risk spending with someone you didn't know well. All the dating sites proved that dinner was just too much. Now, it's lunch's turn. The alternative（替代品）？Coffee. When people invite you to a "coffee", it means they will spend some time with you and they will probably help you-but not that much . However, the benefits to the new culture of coffee are many. There is often nowhere to sit in coffee places, so meetings tend to be short. Coffee does not make you fat，if you don＇t order a 1000 calorie（卡路里）coffee drink every time. Coffee is cheap, relatively speaking, so there is no worry over the check. In our drive for getting more work done in a short time, lunch is being replaced with coffee. Lunch is now arranged for true friends and making deals. In some places, a nice business lunch has become a luxury（奢侈）. And there are lots of business lunches where everyone is on his or her phone anyway. That can be done over a coffee. Going for a coffee is here to stay. So the next time someone asks you to have a coffee-GO. It's not that much of a concern for either side . And, although it's time-saving. "coffee" could be the first step to something much bigger. The main purpose of this passage is to introduce _______。