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

    I came to Japan two years ago, and did’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 tile 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 reluctant to take time off -- even teachers with tickets for the England-Argentina game had trouble getting the day off.

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

  A. Tokyo                       B. a small town

  C. a city of middle size            D. a big city

57. 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 full schedule

58. 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

59. The underlined word "reluctant" in the passage may probably mean ________.

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

Answer 1

 

56．C．

解析：从文中的第二段But I’d say that for general quality of living,…,are better choices.我们可知，作者喜欢居住的地方是极不太大也不太小的城市――即中等城市。

57.D.

解析：在文中第三段说道：If you want to devote yourself to private teaching,…, because your lessons will be much better for it.由此可见，作者的看法是想当私人教师，首先要参加TEFL 课程的学习。

58．D．

解析：文章的第二段作者说到他两年前的日本，但认为不会逗留下去，可是日本有些对你产生影响的东西。因此，划线句子的隐含意义就是他之前那个句子的总结。

59．B．

解析：从文中最后一句可得答案。