2012年同等学力英语冲刺练习与详解17.docVIP

2012年同等学力英语冲刺练习及详解（十七） 阅读理解： My new home was a long way from the centre of London but it was becoming essential to find a job，so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the tube. They were looking for guards，not drivers. This suited me. I couldn’t drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train，and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T. S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I would be a tube guard.