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While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job wanted at a school about
ten miles from where I___1___. Being very short of money and wanting to___2___ something useful I
applied (申请). Fearing as I didso, that without a degree and with no ___3___ of teaching my chances
of getting the job were ___4___ However, three days later, a letter ___5___, calling me to Croydon for
a___6___with the headmaster. It proved to be a___7___journey: a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute
bus ride and then a walk of at ___8___ 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___11___and round.     “The school,” he said, “is made up of one___12___of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen.” I
should have to___13___all the subjects except art, which he taught himself. I should have to___14___the
class into three groups and teach them in turn at three different___15___, and I was disappointed at the
thought of teaching maths-a___16___at which I wasn’t very good 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. lived   (     )2. A. buy     (     )3. A. hooks   (     )4. A. great   (     )5. A. arrived (     )6. A. match   (     )7. A. comfortable (     )8. A. first   (     )9. A. almost   (     )10.A. headmaster   (     )11.A. bad     (     )12.A. class   (     )13.A. like     (     )14.A. connect   (     )15.A. classes   (     )16.A. book     (     )17.A. forcing   (     )18.A. enjoying   (     )19.A. feet     (     )20.A. likes

B. played   B. do       B. experience B. helpful B. received   B. meeting   B. difficult B. last     B. so       B. student   B. glad     B. dozen   B. practise   B. divide   B. levels   B. lesson   B. forgetting B. helping   B. hands   B. lives in

C. studied C. teach C. material C. nice C. returned C. quarrel C. pleasant C. least C. too   C. teacher C. short C. group C. study C. join C. places C. problem C. having C. studying C. letter C. runs

D. worked           D. write           D. means           D. tight           D. written         D. sight-seeing     D. short           D. most           D. very             D. wife             D. smiling         D. score           D. teach           D. tear             D. subjects         D. subject         D. managing         D. watching         D. wife             D. starts

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