There have been few occasions on which I have actually walked out of the cinema halfway through a film．The first time this happened I was watching a story for children about animals living in a small village，riding in trains，shopping，and so on．The animals were all real．It was a sweet little film till you started wondering how these animals could act in such a human-1ike way and began to look for the wires and things that forced them to do so．The moment which had me walking out was a scene of a fox giving a hen a shampoo．The look on the animals’ faces and some signs of blood that appeared in the water were toothache for me；how many hens died to make that particular scene?

    The other two occasions which I remember walking out were both when I had gone to see films that had appeared on some critics’ list of the ten best films．Neither of them was interesting at all．In one film the characters sat in a French country house，drinking and smoking and doing nothing except a little shooting．The other was about the life of a soldier in the First World War．It told me more about life in this period than I had any wish to know．For two out of ten films to be so uninteresting must show that critics love things of little interest；I’ve never been to see the other eight．

1．According to the passage，the writer______．

    A．seldom goes to the cinema

    B．seldom leaves the cinema halfway through a film

    C．often goes to the cinema

    D．often leaves the cinema halfway through a film

2．The writer did not like the film about life of a soldier in the First World War because______

A．it was too uninteresting to enjoy

B．he did not like war films

C．he had no interest in soldiers’ 1ife

D．this kind of films was rather cruel

3．On the other two occasions the writer______．

    A．agreed with what film critics thought

    B．thought that film critics were usually wrong

    C．thought that film critics were usually right

    D．thought in a way different from film critics  

4．The passage mainly tells us______．

A．what films the writer liked and disliked

    B．why the writer walked out of films

    C．what the writer thought of film critics’ remarks

    D．why the writer didn’t go to see the other eight films

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　　There have been few occasions(场合) on which I have actually walked out of the cinema halfway through a film. The first time this happened when I was watching a story for children about animals living in a small village, riding in trains, shopping, and so on; the animals were all real. It was a sweet little film till you started wondering how these animals could act in such a human-like way and began to look for the wires and things that forced them to do so. The moment which had me walking out was a scene of a fox giving a hen a shampoo(洗头) The look on the animals' faces and some signs of blood that appeared in the water were too much for me: how many hens died to make that particular scene?

　　The other two occasions on which I remember walking out were both when I had gone to see films that had appeared on some critics'(评论家的) list of the ten best films. Neither of them was interesting at all. In one the characters sat in a French country house, drinking and smoking and doing nothing except a little shooting. The other was about the life of a soldier in the First World War; it told me more about life in this period than I had any wish to know. For two out of ten films to be so uninteresting must show that critics love things of little interest, I've never been to see the other eight.

1．The passage mainly tells us ________.

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A．what films the writer liked and disliked

B．why the writer walked out of films

C．what the writer thought of film critics' remarks

D．why the writer didn't go to see the other eight films

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