Getting paid to talk about the World Cup is a great job. I’m not a football comm

Getting paid to talk about the World Cup isa great job. I’m not a football commentator（评论员）,but just an English teacher in Japan.

I came to Japan two years ago, and didn’tthink I would stay, but Japan has that effect on you. People often end upliving here longer than they planned. I think it’s better to teach in a biggercity where there are other foreigners to mix with, rather than a small townwhere 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 nightlifefactor. But I’d say that for general quality of living, cities of neither toolarge nor too small, like Sapporo where I live, are better choices.

I teach English privately, which means I’mmy own boss. If you want to devote yourself to private teaching, it’s wellworth doing a TEFL course first, because your lessons will be much better forit. The problem with private teaching is finding students; it took me a year tobuild 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 workfull-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 youdo here.

The schools are reluctant to take timeoff-even teachers with tickets for the England-Argentina game had troublegetting the day off.

60、From the passage we know in Japan the writer likes to livein       .

A、Tokyo       B、a smalltown     C、a city of middle size     D、a big city

61、According to the writer, one had better    first to do private teaching better.

A、take a TEFL course     B、decide his or her own lessons

C、find students         D、build up a fullschedule

62、The underlined sentence in the second paragraph implies （暗示）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

63、The underlined word “reluctant” in the passage may probablymeans     .

A、kind     B、unwilling     C、free     D、careless

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【答案】

 C

 A

 D

 B

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