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大学英语精读第二册04 大耳朵英语　 　 2005-09-30 00:33:29　 【打印】 Previous Unit | Next Unit | Back 　Unit Four　　Click the button to listen to the text　　Trying to make some money before entering uni-versity, the author applies for a teaching job. But the interview goes from bad to worse. . .　　MY FIRST JOB　Robert BestWhile I was waiting to enter university, I saw advertised in a local newspaper a teaching post at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of money and wanting to do some-thing useful, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no experience in teaching my chances of getting the job were slim. 　However, three days later a letter arrived, asking me to go to Croy-don for an interview. It proved an awkward journey: a train to Croydon station; a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of amile. As a result I arrived on a hot June morning too depressed to feelnervous. 　The school was a red brick house with big windows. The front garden was a gravel square; four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, where they struggled to survive the dust and fumes from a busy main road.　It was clearly the headmaster himself that opened the door: He was short and fat: He had a sandy-coloured moustache, a wrinkled forehead and hardly any hair.　He looked at me with an air of surprised disapproval, as a colonel might look at a private whose bootlaces were undone.` Ah yes, he grunt-ed.` Youd better come inside. The narrow, sunless hall smelled unpleas-antly of stale cabbage; the walls were dirty with ink marks; it was all silent. His study, judging by the crumbs on the carpet, was also his dining-room. `Youd better sit down, he said, and proceeded to ask me a number of questions: what subjects I had taken in my General School Certificate; how old I was; what games I played; then fixing me suddenly with his bloodshot eyes, he asked me whether I thought g