While I was waiting to go into university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job wanted at a school about ten miles from where I
16 . Because I was in great need of
17 and wanted to do something useful, I applied(申请).
Three days later, a letter
18 . It asked me to see the
19 at Croydon. It proved to be a(n)
20 journey —a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of
21 a quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived there, feeling too hot to be nervous. Clearly, the principal
22 opened the door. He was
23 and round.
“The school” he said, “has a group of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen.”
I should have to teach all the
24 except art, which he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into
25 groups and teach them at three different
26 , and I was not
27 at the thought of teaching maths —a subject which I didn’t do very well in at school. It was
28 that I had to teach them on Saturday afternoon
29 most of my friends would be
30 themselves at that time.
Before I had time to ask about my salary(薪水), he got up to his feet. “Now,” he said. “you’d better meet my wife. She is the one who really runs this school.”
| 【小题1】 | | A．lived | B．played | C．studied | D．worked |
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| 【小题2】 | | A．help | B．money | C．rest | D．force |
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| 【小题3】 | | A．arrived | B．received | C．returned | D．wrote |
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| 【小题4】 | | A．editor | B．teacher | C．principal | D．student |
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| 【小题5】 | | A．comfortable | B．easy | C．short | D．unpleasant |
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| 【小题6】 | | A．at least | B．at first | C．at last | D．at most |
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| 【小题7】 | | A．herself | B．themselves | C．itself | D．himself |
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| 【小题8】 | | A．bad | B．glad | C．short | D．smiling |
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| 【小题9】 | | A．people | B．subjects | C．boys | D．knowledge |
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| 【小题11】 | | A．subjects | B．lessons | C．levels | D．schools |
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| 【小题12】 | | A．glad | B．surprised | C．angry | D．sad |
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| 【小题13】 | | A．better | B．more exciting | C．worse | D．nicer |
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| 【小题14】 | | A．until | B．after | C．if | D．because |
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| 【小题15】 | | A．enjoying | B．helping | C．studying | D．arguing |
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