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.

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

Donald had his own difficulties sleeping that night. Not just because of the bright lights of the shelter or people's constant voices, it was the happening repeatedly nightmare(噩梦) that caused him to stay awake, to fear sleep. Donald was back in his small house. He did his best to ignore the howling winds outside his window. Yet he couldn't turn out the fearful whimpers(呜咽声) of his little dog, or the uncomfortable sounds of his mother anxious in her room next door, unable to sleep through the storm despite her insistence they would be all right.

Donald didn't want his mother to be upset, but on some level,he was glad to hear she was awake. It meant he wasn't alone in the dark. Though he was 12, until recently it was impossible for Donald to fall asleep unless his mother lay down by his side.

Suddenly there was a crash. Their living room window is shattered(打碎) by 125­mile­an­hour winds. Troy rushed to Donald and sat anxiously on the edge of his bed. He did his best to calm his mother, and she to comfort him.

Soon water was seeping(渗透) into the single­floor house.Quickly it rose from ankle level to leg level. At Donald's insistence, they pushed their way through the water—now chest high—toward the front door. When they fought their way into the living room, water rose to their chins.

It was a struggle for the boy and mother to stay afloat. In a total panic, desperate to hold on to something, Troy caught a curtain rod(杆). She's breathing hard, shouting that she couldn't swim.

Donald called out,“Mom! Hold on!” Just then Donald also caught a floating wood board.

36.The passage is mainly about ________.

A.how a storm happened and caused damage

B.how a mother and son experienced a storm

C.how a mother and son survived a storm

D.how a son helped his mother in a storm

37.Which of the following is mentioned in the story?

A.The rising sun.  B.The broken door.

C.The lucky dog.  D.The noisy environment.

38.Which word can best describe Troy's feelings at the beginning of the storm?

A.Excited.  B.Calm.

C.Anxious.  D.Desperate.

39.What will the author most probably talk about next?

A.How the other people struggled in the storm.

B.Why the storm happened.

C.What damage the storm caused.

D.How Donald and Troy struggled to save themselves.

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