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just an English teacher in Japan.
I came 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 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.
B. a small town
C. a city of middle size
D. a big city
B. decide his or her own lessons
C. find students
D. build up a full schedule
B. Japan is good for nightlife
C. they can teach English privately in Japan
D. Japan has something more attractive than expected
B. unwilling
C. free
D. careless
答案
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train, she 2 a quick way to reach it. "I have been a taxi driver for 15 years!" the driver said 3 . "You
don"t think I know the best way to go?"
The woman tried to explain that she hadn"t 4 to annoy him, but the driver kept 5 . She finally
realized that he was too annoyed to be 6 , so she changed her 7 . "You know, you are right," she told
him. "It must seem 8 for me not to think you know the best way 9 the city."
10 , the driver glanced at his 11 in the rearview mirror (后视镜), turned down the street she wanted
and got her to the train on time. "He didn"t say another word the rest of the ride," she said, " 12 I got out
and paid him. Then he thanked me."
When you find yourself 13 with people like the taxi driver, you will always try to 14 your idea. It
can lead to longer arguments, lose job chances or even 15 marriages. I have discovered one simple 16
extremely effective method that can prevent the disagreement or other difficult situations from 17 in a
disaster.
The 18 is to put yourself in the other person"s shoes and look for the 19 in what that person is
saying. Find a way to 20 , and the result may surprise you.
| ( )1. A. hurry ( )2. A. chose ( )3. A. jokingly ( )4. A. supposed ( )5. A. apologizing ( )6. A. reasonable ( )7. A. road ( )8. A. strange ( )9. A. across ( )10. A. Surprised ( )11. A. rider ( )12. A. until ( )13. A. satisfied ( )14. A. give up ( )15. A. combine ( )16. A. or ( )17. A. lying ( )18. A. problem ( )19. A. fact ( )20. A. agree | B. rush B. made B. angrily B. hoped B. driving B. thoughtful B. mind B. wrong B. in B. Worried B. speaker B. after B. concerned B. turn down B. destroy B. that B. resulting B. importance B. meaning B. argue | C. moment C. found C. anxiously C. meant C. asking C. normal C. direction C. terrible C. through C. Annoyed C. helper C. because C. crowded C. stick to C. suffer C. but C. setting C. key C. expression C. explain | D. way D. suggested D. curiously D. decided D. shouting D. practical D. manner D. stupid D. along D. Disappointed D. comer D. since D. faced D. point out D. divide D. though D. leading D. reply D. truth D. escape | ||||
| 阅读理解。 | |||||||
| There"s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella. At first I couldn"t stand it, now I"m used to it. I don"t know his name. I know he"s average in appearance, wears a gray suit, and has a common face. I met him five years ago one hot morning when I was sitting on a tree-shaded bench in Palermo Park, reading the paper. Suddenly I felt something touch my head. It was the very same man who now, as I"m writing, keeps hitting me, mechanically (机械地) and impassively, with an umbrella. On that occasion I turned around filled with anger. He just kept on hitting me. I asked him if he was crazy, he didn"t even seem to hear me. Then I threatened to call a policeman. Calmly, cool as a cucumber, he stuck with his task. After a few moments of hesitation, and seeing that he was not about to change his attitude, I stood up and hit him on the nose. The man fell down, but he immediately got back on his feet, obviously with great effort, and without a word again began hitting me on the head with the umbrella. His nose was bleeding and, at that moment, I felt sorry for him. I felt regret for having hit him so hard. After all, the man wasn"t exactly hitting me; he was merely tapping me lightly with his umbrella, not causing any pain at all. Of course, those taps were extremely bothersome. As we all know, when a fly lands on your forehead, you don"t feel any pain; what you feel is annoyance. Well then, that umbrella was one huge fly that kept landing on my head time after time. Convinced that I was dealing with a madman, I tried to escape. But the man followed me, wordlessly continuing to hit me. So I began to run (I should point out that not many people run as fast as I do). He took off after me, trying to land a blow. The man was out of breath so that I thought, if I continued to force him to run at that speed, he would drop dead right then and there. | |||||||
| 1. When the man began to strike the author with an umbrella, the author _____. | |||||||
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| A. became angry B. called the police C. turned around and escaped D. turned around and fought back | |||||||
| 2. The author would most probably agree that the man was _____. | |||||||
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| A. deaf B. blind C. dead D. mad | |||||||
| 3. The author felt sorry for the man because _____. | |||||||
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| A. the man formed a bad habit of beating others B. he hit the man so hard that his nose bled C. the man couldn"t catch up with him D. there was a fly on the man"s head | |||||||
| 4. It can be learned from the passage that the man _____. | |||||||
[ ] | |||||||
| A. shouted loudly while hitting the author B. wanted to tell the author something C. ran after the author breathlessly D. acted as if he were a fly | |||||||
| 阅读理解。 | |||||||
| It was the perfect weather for leaf watching, and my housemate Julie and I meant to spend the weekend with our friends in the north Georgia mountains. "Don"t you want to come along?" Julie asked her 15-year-old son, Mark. "Enjoy the leaves by yourselves," he told her. "I"ll be fine staying home by myself." Julie and I drove there in my car after work on Friday. On Saturday morning we hiked along the mountainside and enjoyed the beautiful colors. All of a sudden, I had a terrible feeling. "Go home," a voice seemed to urge me. I couldn"t explain it, but I didn"t want to be here any more. I just wanted to go home. "Carol, calm down. You"re being silly," Julie said. But the urge just got stronger. "I"ve got to leave," I said. "If you want to stay, you can get a ride back with everyone else tomorrow." Julie stood up. "No, I"ll go with you," she said. We almost didn"t talk during the two-hour trip back. I felt very guilty. Finally, we pulled in. The lights were on in the house, but something was strange. The windows seemed to be fogged up. Julie opened the door and smoke poured out. "Mark!" she shouted. "Mark!" We rushed inside and found him asleep on the sofa. Shaking him awake, Julie grabbed him. I grabbed the source of the smoke -a pillow too close to the fireplace. I then took it outside and threw water on it. Mark had built a fire to keep warm, and some embers (灰烬) had flown out. The whole house could have gone up if we hadn"t gotten there just then! | |||||||
| 1. What do we know from the text? | |||||||
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| A. Leaf watching was Mark"s hobby. B. Mark stayed home with his friends. C. Carol went to work on Friday. D. Mark was Carol"s cousin. | |||||||
| 2. The underlined phrase "pulled in" in the last paragraph probably means "_____". | |||||||
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| A. started the car B. arrived home and stopped the car C. moved away from the station D. came home late | |||||||
| 3. While driving home Carol _____. | |||||||
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| A. was very terrified B. drove at a great speed C. knew she had made a mistake D. hardly said anything | |||||||
| 4. Why did Carol want to go home? | |||||||
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| A. She didn"t enjoy the leaves. B. She received her son"s telephone call. C. She felt something urged her to go home. D. She followed Julie"s advice. | |||||||
| 完形填空。 | |||||||
| Every morning at eleven, a bright new car drove through the central park in New York. Inside the car 1 a driver and his boss, a well-known millionaire (百万富翁). Each morning the millionaire 2 a poorly-dressed man 3 on a park bench. The man always sat 4 staring at the hotel in which the rich man lived. One day the millionaire was so 5 in the man that he asked his driver to stop the car and he 6 to the bench. He said to the poor man, "Excuse me, 7 I just have to know why you sit staring at my hotel every morning." "Sir," said the poor man, "I"m a failure. I have no job, no family and no 8 . I sleep on this bench and every night I dream that 9 day I will sleep in this hotel." The rich man had 10 . He said to the poor man "Tonight your dream will come 11 . I"ll 12 for the best room in that hotel for you for 13 ." The millionaire smiled and felt 14 of himself. A few days 15 , the millionaire went by the poor man"s room to ask him how he 16 himself. To his great 17 , he found that the poor man had moved out of the hotel, back to his park bench. When the millionaire asked why, the man said, "You see, when I"m 18 here sleeping on the bench. I always dream I"m up there in the hotel. It"s a wonderful dream. But when I was up there in the hotel, I dreamed I was 19 here on this cold bench. It was 20 dream and I could not get any sleep at all." | |||||||
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