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   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 an    20   journey—a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at   21  a quarter of a mile. It was clearly that the headmaster himself opened the door. He was   22   and round.
“The school” he said, “has a group of twenty-four boys   23   seven and thirteen.”
I should have to teach all the   24   except art,   45   he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into   26   groups and teach them at three different   27   , and I was not  28   at the thought of teaching maths—a subject which I didn’t do very well in at school. It was  29   that I had to teach them on Saturday afternoon because 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.

A．lived B．played C．studied D．worked A．help B．money C．rest D．force A．arrived B．received C．returned D．wrote A．editor B．teacher C．headmaster D．student A．comfortable B．difficult C．unpleasant D．short A．first B．last C．least D．most A．bad B．glad C．short D．smiling A．between B．from C．by D．under A．people B．subjects C．boys D．knowledge A．who B．where C．what D．which A．two B．three C．four D．five A．subjects B．lessons C．levels D．regions A．glad B．surprised C．angry D．sad A．enjoying B．helping C．studying D．managing