B)完形填空  先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

While I was waiting to enter university, I saw an advertisement in a newspaper –a teaching job wanted at a school.  The school was about ten miles from where I lived. I was in great   16  of money and wanted to do something useful, so I   17  .

Three days later, a letter arrived.  It asked me to meet the principal of the school at Croydon. It proved to be a(n)  18  journey -a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of   19   a quarter of a mile.

A man who was short and round seemed to be the principal and he opened the door for me. "The school," he said, "has a group of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen years old." According to the man, I should have to teach all the subjects   20  art, which the man himself taught. I should have to  21   the class into three groups and teach them at three different levels, and I was not glad at the  22  of teaching Maths -a subject which I wasn't good at. It was   23   that I had to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be   24  themselves at that time.

Before I had time to ask about my   25   ,the man got up to his feet. "Now," he said,“You'd better meet my wife.  She is the one who really runs this school.”

16.A. fear     B. need     C. danger     D. control

17.A. applied     B. arranged  C announced  D. accepted

18.A comfortable  B. boring     C short     D. unpleasant

19.A at first     B. at most   C at least     D. at last

20.A. besides     B. except     C including  D. about

21.A. cut      B. divide     C turn     D. gather

22.A. action     B. way     C movement  D. thought

23.A. worse     B. better     C harder     D. nicer

24.A helping     B. believing  C enjoying   D. losing

25.A. fund     B. value     C. award     D. pay