Question

Getting paid to talk about the World Cup is a great job. I’m not a football commentator(評論員), though-just an English teacher in Japan.

I come to Japan two years ago, and didn’t think I would stay, but Japan has that effect on you. People often end up living here longer than they planned. I think it’s best to teach in a bigger city where there are other foreigners to mix with, rather than a small town where English teachers often complain of feeling like a goldfish in a bowl. Many people choose to live in Tokyo, of course, which is good for the nightlife factor. But I’d say that for general quality of living, cities of neither too large nor too small, like Sapporo where I live, are better choices.

I teach English privately, which means I’m my own boss. If you want to devote yourself to private teaching, it’s well worth doing a TEFL course first, because your lessons will be much better for it. The problem with private teaching is finding students; it took me a year to build up a full schedule(日程表) of private lessons, so I started out teaching in schools part-time.

Most of my foreign friends here work full-time for big English conversation schools. The salary is fine to live on, but whether you can save money depends on how much going out and traveling you do here.

The schools are unwilling to take time off –even teachers with tickets for the England-Argentina game had trouble getting the day off.

1. From the passage we know in Japan the writer likes to live in ________.

A．Tokyo                                B．a(chǎn) small town

C．a(chǎn) city of middle size                      D．a(chǎn) big city

2.According to the writer, one had better _______ first to do private teaching better.

A．give a TEFL course                       B．decide his or her own lessons

C．find students                           D．build up a full schedule

3.The underlined sentence in the second paragraph implies that _______.

A．there are many foreigners in Japan

B．Japan is good for nightlife

C．they can teach English privately in Japan

D．Japan has something more attractive than expected

4.After reading the passage, we can see _________.

A．the writer travelled a lot and saved much money in Japan.

B．the writer teaches English in more than one school as a part-time job.

C．the writer enjoys watching football games

D．the writer spent one year in finding students for his private teaching.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.A

3.D

4.B

【解析】

試題分析：文章介紹作者在日本做英語老師的經(jīng)歷。

1.細節(jié)理解題。由第二段But I’d say that for general quali~of living，cities of neither too large nor too small，like Sa- pporo where I live，are better choices．可知本題應選C。

2.細節(jié)理解題。由第三段第二句話可知答案為A。

3.句子理解推理題。句子意為：“人們實際居住的時間比計劃的時間要長。”由此可推理得知句子含義是日本比預料的有更多的吸引人的東西。選D。

4.推理題：從第三段的句子：The problem with private teaching is finding students; it took me a year to build up a full schedule(日程表) of private lessons, so I started out teaching in schools part-time.可知作者在不止一個學校做兼職工作。選B。

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