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