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 twww.100ksw.comall, 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.

　　1.From the passage we know in Japan the write likes to jive in_______.

　　A. Tokyo B. a small town C. a city of middle site D. a big city

　　2.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

　　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.The underlined word “reluctant” in the passage may probably mean_____.

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

　　答案 .C .A .D .B