高考英语完形填空训练（008）

While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job __1__ at a school about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of __2__ and wanting to do something __3__ I applied (申请) , __4__ as I did so, that without a degree and with no __5__of teaching my chances of getting the job were __6__.

However, three days later, a letter arrived, calling me to Croydon for a meeting 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 toe hot to be nervous. It was clearly the __9__ himself that __10__ the door. He was short and round.

"The school," he said, "is made up of one __11__ of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen." I should have to teach all the subjects except art, __12__ he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into __13__ groups and teach them in turn at three different __14__, and I was __15__ at the thought of teaching maths - a subject at which I wasn't very __16__ 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, 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. kept



B. lost



C. wanted



D. found

2. A. money



B. time



C. students



D. clothes

3. A. harmful



B. useful



C. funny



D. secret

4. A. expecting



B. whispering



C. fearing



D. considering

5. A. material



B. experience



C. means



D. books

6. A. nice



B. great



C. slight



D. helpful

7. A. difficult



B. pleasant



C. comfortable



D. short

8. A. most



B. least



C. last



D. first

9. A. teacher



B. door-keeper



C. student



D. headmaster

10. A. shut



B. opened



C. repaired



D. kicked

11. A. group



B. class



C. dozen



D. score

12. A. which



B. that



C. what



D. this

13. A. one



B. two



C. three



D. four

14. A. classes



B. subjects



C. levels



D. places

15. A. excited



B. angry



C. glad



D. disappointed

16. A. poor



B. interested



C. weak



D. good

17. A. forcing



B. having



C. forgetting



D. managing

18. A. watching



B. studying



C. enjoying



D. helping

19.A. letter



B. feet



C. hands



D. wife

20.A. runs



B. starts



C. observes



D. likes

KEY: 1-5 CABCB 6-10 CABDB 11-20 BACCD 16-20 DBCBA
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