河北元氏县第一中学2015-2016学年高一英语下学期期中试题.docVIP

高一英语下学期期中测试 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分。共150分，考试时间120钟。 第Ⅰ卷 第一部分　听力(共两节，满分30分) 第二部分　阅读理解(共两节，满分40分) 第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 A Getting paid to talk about the World Cup is a great job. Im not a football commentator (评论员), though — just an English teacher in Japan. I came to Japan two years ago, and didnt think I would say，but Japan has that effect on you. People_often_end_up_living_here_longer_than_they_planned. I think its 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 Id 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 Im my own boss. If you want to devote yourself to private teaching, its 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. 21. 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 22. 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 23. The underlined sentence in the second paragraph implies that ________. A. there ar