while i was waiting to enter university, i saw in a newspaper a teaching job 1 at a school about ten miles from where i lived. being very short of 2 and wanting to do something useful, i applied (申请), 3 as i did so, that without a degree and with no 4 of teaching my chances of getting the job were 5 .
however, three days later, a letter 6 , calling me to croydon for a 7 with the headmaster. it proved to be a 8 journey: a train to croydon station, a ten-mi-nute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile. as a result i arrived there, feeling 9 hot to be nervous. it was clearly the 10 himself that opened the door. he was short and round.
‘the school,” he said, “is made up of one 11 of twenty-four boys between sev-en and thirteen. ‘ l should have to teach all the subjects except art, 12 he taught him-self. i should have to 13 the class into three groups and teach them in turn at three different 14 , and i was 15 at the thought of teaching maths a subject at which fwasn’t very 16 at school. worse perhaps was the idea of 17 to teach them on saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be 18 themselves at that time.
before i had time to ask about my salary (薪水), he got up to his 19 . “now,” he said, “you’d better meet my wife. she is the one who really 20 this school.”
1. a. kept b. lost c. wanted d. found
2. a. money b. time
c. students d. clothes
3. a. expecting b. whispering
c. fearing d. considering
4. a. material b. experience
c. means d. books
5. a. nice b. great c. slight d. helpful
6. a. arrived b. returned
c. written d. received
7. a. match b. meeting
c. quarrel d. sightseeing
8. a. difficult b. pleasant
c. comfortable d. short
9. a. very b. almost c. so d. too
10. a. teacher b. headmaster
c. student d. door-keeper
11. a. group b. class
c. dozen d. score
12. a. what b. that c. which d. this
13. a. connect b. join c. tear d. divide
14. a. classes b. subjects
c. levels d. places
15. a. excited b. disappointed
c. glad d. angry
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