Getting paid to talk about the World Cup is a 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’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 better 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 reluctant to take time off-even teachers with tickets for the England-Argentina game had trouble getting the day off.

60、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

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 full schedule

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 probably means     .

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

 

What time is it? Most people are pretty accurate in their answer. And if you don’t know for sure, it’s a very likely that you can find out. There may be a watch on your wrist, there may be a clock on the wall, desk, or computer screen; or maybe you’re riding in a car that has a clock in the dashboard (仪表板).
Even if you don’t have a timepiece of some sort nearby, your body keeps its own beat. Humans have an internal clock that regulates (调节) the beating of our heart, the pace of our breathing, the discharge (排出) of chemicals within our bloodstream, and many other bodily functions.
Time is something from which we can’t escape. Even if we ignore it, it’s still going by, ticking away, second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour. So the main issue in using your time well is, “Who’s in charge?” We can allow time to slip by and let it be our enemy. Or we can take control of it and make it our ally.
By taking control of how you spend your time, you’ll increase your chances of becoming a more successful student. Perhaps more importantly, the better you are at managing the time you devote to your studies, the more time you’ll have to spend on your outside interests.
The aim of time management is not to schedule every moment so we become slaves of a timetable that governs every waking moment of the day. Instead, the aim is to make informed choices as to how we use our time. Rather than letting the day go by, largely without our awareness, what we are going to discuss next can make us better able to control time for our own purposes.
【小题1】The underlined word “ally” in Para. 3 more likely means somebody or something that is _________.

A．your slave and serves you	B．your supporter and helps you
C．under your control and obeys you	D．under your influence and follows you

【小题2】The author intends to tell us that time _____________.

A．could be regulated by a timepiece such as a clock or a watch

B．could be managed by the internal clock of human bodies

C．should be well managed for our own interest

D．should be saved for outside interests

【小题3】In the next part, the author would most probably discuss with you ________.

A．how to keep up with the times	B．how to make up for lost time
C．how to have a good time	D．how to make good use of time

 

When I was learning calligraphy my teacher told me a story．

A calligrapher taught handwriting．One or his students who often practised handwritihg with old sheets of newspaper complained that he made very little progress though he had learned it with the calligrapher for a long time．His teacher said to him,“Try to use the best paper．Maybe you’ll write better．”

The student did as he was told．It really worked．He made headway not long afterwards and felt curious．He asked his teacher about the reason．The calligrapher answered,“When you used old newspaper to practise handwriting ,you would think you were writing a draft．It didn’t matter if you wrote badly as old newspaper was plenty in supply．In that case you wouldn’t pay much attention to it．Now you use the best paper and you ’ll treasure it．Each time you write you feel strongly about the rarity of chances and you’ll devote to it with all your heart and soul ; you’ll do the handwritihg much more attentively than practising．Of course you’ve made rapid progress．”

Indeed , we spend our ordihary days just as they are worthless “ old newspaper ”．We don’t care if we scrawl and waste it ,thinking that it will come endlessly---the “ old newspaper ” is inexhaustible．In such a mood we may each day pass by opportunities but fail to catch any of them．

Life is not a military exercise but an actual war in which real weapons are used ．In everyday life there’s no chance for us to draft．That’s because what we call“draft” actually is the answer sheet we write that cannot be changed．

Every day of our life is something new．Let us take every day as a sheet of the best paper．

46．The calligrapher in the story told the student to write on the best paper because he thought      ．

A．the student would practise more carefully on the best paper

B．it was comfortable to write on the best paper

C．the student had enough money to buy the best paper

D．the student could write more on the best paper

47．The student didn’t make much progress at first because      ．

A．he regarded his writihg on old newspaper just as a draft

B．he was too poor to buy better paper to write on

C．he didn’t follow his teacher’s advice

D．he was not used to the calligrapher’s teaching manner

48．We learn from the passage that      ．

A．the student finally gave up

B．the student made rapid progress by practising more carefully

C．the caligrapher was strict with his students

D．old newspaper is not useful

49．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．What teachers say is always true．

B．Success calls for attentiveness．

C．Handwriting is easy to practise．

D．New things are always better than old ones

50．The writer want to tell us that      ．

A．there are some good ways to practice handwriting

B．life is like old newspaper

C．we should learn from the student in the story

D．life will not give us a chance to draw a draft

 

最近我校同学正在参加某报社组织的一次讨论。讨论的主题是：中国是否应该大力发展家用小汽车?请你根据下表所提供的信息，客观地阐述这两种不同的意见。

60％的同学认为	40％的同学认为
1.  应大力发展 2. 促进国家经济发展 3. 增加就业机会 4. 省时、提高生活质量	1．应有限度地发展 2．城市交通拥挤、事故 3．修路占用土地 4．噪声污染

注意：1．开头部分已写好，不计入词数。词数为100个左右。

2．参考词汇： 促进promote   国民经济the national economy

We had a discussion about whether China should devote major efforts to developing car industry．Opinions are divided on the question．

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