While I was waiting to enter university, I saw an advertisement in a newspaper –a teaching job wanted at a school. The school was about ten miles from where I lived. I was in great
of money and wanted to do something useful, so I
.
Three days later, a letter arrived. It asked me to meet the principal of the school at Croydon. It proved to be a(n)
journey -a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of
a quarter of a mile.
A man who was short and round seemed to be the principal and he opened the door for me. "The school," he said, "has a group of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen years old." According to the man, I should have to teach all the subjects
art, which the man himself taught. I should have to
the class into three groups and teach them at three different levels, and I was not glad at the
of teaching Maths -a subject which I wasn't good at. It was
that I had to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be
themselves at that time.
Before I had time to ask about my
,the man got up to his feet. "Now," he said,“You'd better meet my wife. She is the one who really runs this school.”
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| 小题2: | | A．applied | B．arranged | C．announced | D．accepted |
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| 小题3: | | A．comfortable | B．boring | C．short | D．unpleasant |
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| 小题4: | | A．at first | B．at most | C．at least | D．at last |
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| 小题5: | | A．besides | B．except | C．including | D．about |
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| 小题6: | | A．cut | B．divide | C．turn | D．gather |
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| 小题7: | | A．action | B．way | C．movement | D．thought |
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| 小题8: | | A．worse | B．better | C．harder | D．nicer |
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| 小题9: | | A．helping | B．believing | C．enjoying | D．losing |
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| 小题10: | | A．fund | B．value | C．award | D．pay |
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