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 did so, 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 tm 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          B. played        C. studied      D. worked

2. A. buy            B. do            C. teach        D. write

3. A. hooks          B. experience    C. material     D. means

4. A. great          B. helpful       C. nice         D. dight

5. A. arrived        B. received      C. returned     D. written

6. A. match          B. meeting       C. quarrel      D. sight-seeing

7. A. comfortable    B. difficult     C. pleasant     D. short

8. A. first          B. last          C. least        D. most

9. A. almost         B. so            C. too          D. very

10. A. headmaster    B. student       C. teacher      D. wife

11. A. bad           B. glad          C. short        D. smiling

12. A. class         B. dozen         C. group        D. score

13. A. like          B. practise      C. study        D. teach

14. A. connect       B. divide        C. join         D. tear

15. A. classes       B. levels        C. places       D. subjects

16. A. book          B. lesson        C. problem      D. subject

17. A. forcing       B. forgetting    C. having       D. managing

18. A. enjoying      B. helping       C. studying     D. watching

19. A. feet          B. hands         C. letter       D. wife

20. A. likes         B. lives in      C. runs         D. starts

Keys: 1.A  2.B  3.B  4.D  5.A  6.B  7.B  8.C  9. C  10. A  11. C  12. A  13. D  14. B  15. B  16. D  17. C  18. A  19. A  20. C