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 3 I applied (申请), 4 as I did so, that without a degree and with no 5 of teaching my chances of getting the job were 6 .
However, three days later, a letter arrived, calling me to Croydon for a meeting 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 too hot to be nervous. It was clearly the 9 himself that 10 the door. He was short and round.
"The school," he said, "is made up of one 11 of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen." I should have to teach all the subjects except art, 12 he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into 13 groups and teach them in turn at three different 14 , and I was 15 at the thought of teaching maths—a subject at which I wasn’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, 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. harmful B. useful C. funny D. secret
4. A. expecting B. whispering C. fearing D. considering
5. A. material B. experience C. means D. books
6. A. nice B. great C. slight D. helpful
7. A. difficult B. pleasant C. comfortable D. short
8. A. most B. least C. last D. first
9. A. teacher B. door-keeper C. student D. headmaster
10. A. shut B. opened C. repaired D. kicked
11. A. group B. class C. dozen D. score
12. A. which B. that C. what D. this
13. A. one B. two C. three D. four
14. A. classes B. subjects C. levels D. places
15. A. excited B. angry C. glad D. disappointed
16. A. poor B. interested C. weak D. good
17. A. forcing B. having C. forgetting D. managing
18. A. watching B. studying C. enjoying D. helping
19.A. letter B. feet C. hands D. wife
20.A. runs B. starts C. observes D. likes
答案：
1~5 CABCB 6~10 CABDB 11~15 BACCD 16~20 DBCBA
