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Mr. Jackson is sixty-four years old. He (1) ______________ in a high school in a small town. All the town people know him very well because he (2) ______________ a teacher there for over forty years.

Mr. Jackson was born in London. He was twenty-two when he (3) ______________ college. Then he came to the small town to teach. He is hard-working and always makes his lessons interesting. He likes his students and the students like him, too. He (4) ______________ as the best teacher in the school.

Mr Jackson will retire next year. But he doesn’t plan (5) ______________ back to London. “I think this small town is my hometown. I won’t leave it,” he said.