Notes:
thermos 魔法瓶;
tumbler 大コップ;

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One of my students gave a presentation in class. She tried to answer the question, “What is really ‘environmentally-friendly’?” She made a good point. Sometimes we do things because we think they are good for the environment, but are they really environmentally-friendly? For example, when she was a child, she collected the caps of plastic bottles and took them to school. However, the caps come from plastic bottles. It would be more environmentally-friendly not to buy drinks in plastic bottles. It’s better to bring drinks from home in a thermos or tumbler. (by Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes:
be featured  紹介された;
gourmet グルメ;
ask her out　彼女をデートに誘う；
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A girl started helping her father at his shop after she finished high school. She worked with her father for about 30 years. Then, her father’s shop was featured in a local gourmet magazine. Recently, customers stopped seeing the girl at the shop. They started to worry about her, and one of them asked the father how the daughter was doing. The father said that someone had seen her photo in the magazine and asked her out. Happily, they fell in love and got married. She has stopped working, and the father is running the business on his own now.　 (written by a reader, edited by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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