ENGLISH AROUND THE WORLD TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CA...

35. ENGLISH AROUND THE WORLD Teaching English as a foreign language can be a great way to travel around the world and earn money at the same time. However, some graduates actually like the idea of (31)________ a career in teaching English, and there are numerous courses at various (32) ________ , from the basic certificates to the diploma or even the master’s. To find the right course, a good place to start is TEFL.com – an Internet site with lots of relevant information and helpful (33) ________ including a full list of places in the UL offering courses. The site also offers assistance to qualified graduates (34) ________ finding work. When deciding on a course, the best thing to do is to look at what your needs are. If you want a career in teaching English, then definitely find one designed for that (35) ________ , such as an MA or diploma; but if you want to travel around the world, then do a shorter course that will supply you with teaching skills. Question 31: A. tracking B. chasing C. hunting D. following Question 32: A. levels B. categories C. groups D. classes Question 33: A. opinion B. suggestion C. advice D. idea Question 34: A. to B. for C. at D. in Question 35: A. function B. use C. aim D. purpose Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42. Most people think that lions only come from Africa. This is understandable because in fact most lions do come from there but this has not always been the case. If we went back ten thousand years. we would find that there were lions roaming vast sections of the globe. However no, unfortunately only a very small section of the lion’s former habitat remains. Asiatic lions are sub-species of African lions. It is almost a hundred thousand years since the Asiatic lions split off and developed as a sub-species. At one time the Asiatic lion was living as far west as Greece and they were found from there, but in a band that spreads east through various countries of the Middle East, all the way to India. In museums now, you can see Greek coins that have clear images of the Asiatic lion on them. Most of them are dated at around 500 B.C. However, Europe saw its last Asiatic lions roaming free to thousand years ago. Over the next nineteen hundred years the numbers of Asiatic lions in the other areas declined steadily, but it was only in the nineteenth century that they disappeared from everywhere but in India. The Gir Wildlife Sanctuary in India was established especially to protect the Asiatic lion. There are now around three hundred Asiatic lions in India and almost all of them are in this sanctuary. However, despite living in a sanctuary, which makes them safe from hunters, they still face a number of problems that threaten their survival. One of these is the ever-present danger of disease. This is what killed more than a third of Africa’s Serengeti lions in