高考英语完形填空训练（026）
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
