(阅读理解)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 too 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.
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