单选题
While I was waiting to enter a university, I saw in a newspaper a teacher job
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at a school about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of money and wanting to do something
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, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no
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of teaching my chances of getting the job were slight.
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, three days later, a letter arrived, calling me to Croydon for a
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with the headmaster. It proved to be a
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journey—a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived there, feeling too hot to be nervous. It was clear the
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himself that opened the door. He was short and round. "The school," he said," is made up of one class of twenty-four between seven and thirteen. " I should have to teach all the subjects
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art, which he taught himself. I should have to
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the class into three groups and teach them
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at three different levels, and I was
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at the thought of teaching math—a
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at which I wasn"t very
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at school. Worse perhaps was the idea of having to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be
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themselves at that time.
Before I had time to ask about my
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, he got up to his feet. "Now," he said, "you"d better meet my wife. She is the one who really runs this school".