While I was waiting to go into university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job wanted at a school
about ten miles from where I   _1_  . Because I was in great need of   _2_   and wanted to do something
useful, I applied(申请).
     Three days later, a letter   _3_  . It asked me to see the   _4_   at Croydon. It proved to
be a(n)   _5_   journey -a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of   _6_   a
quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived there, feeling too hot to be nervous. Clearly, the principal   _7_  
opened the door. He was   _8_   and round."
     The school" he said, "has a group of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen." I should have to
teach all the   _9_   except art, which he taught himself.
     I should have to divide the class into  _10_   groups and teach them at three different  _11_  , and I
was not   12_   at the thought of teaching maths -a subject which I didn't do very well in at school. It
was   13_   that I had to teach them on Saturday afternoon    14_  most of my friends would be    15_ 
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.