新编英语教程第3册(李观仪主编)第一单元课后练习问题详解_

Answers to Unit 1

TEXT 1 ( P2 )

My First Job

Comprehension

A. True (T) or False (F)?

1. The writer thought that the likelihood of him getting the job was not great though he was young and eager to do something useful.

T

2. The headmaster liked the young man at first sight.

F

The headmaster did not like the young man when he went for an interview. He looked at him with surprised disapproval and, instead of showing welcome to the young man, he just grunted, which was an expression of irritation and displeasure 3. The headmaster saw eye to eye with the writer as far as children’s games were concerned.

F

They did not think alike. To the headmaster, games played an essential role in a boy’s education but the writer did not consider games to have so much importance to the boys.

4. The writer was not happy about his having to teach algebra and geometry, but he

did not mind having to walk a mile along the dusty road to the Park.

T

5. The young man was satisfied with the salary he would get.

F

The young man would only get twelve pounds a week including lunch, which was by no means good pay. Of course the writer was not satisfied. However, before he could say anything about the poor pay, the headmaster had stood up and asked the young man to meet his wife.

6. The writer did not feel unhappy at the idea of working under the headmaster’s wife.

F

The writer thought it was something he could hardly bear. To him, for a young man to work under a woman would be shameful and would result in a loss of dignity and self-respect.

B. Explain the following in your own words.

1. Being very short of money and wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no experience of teaching my chances of landing the job were slim.

Because I was in bad need of money and was eager to do something of use, I applied for the job. But at the same time that I did so, I was afraid that the possibility for me to get the job was very small because I didn’t have a university

degree, nor did I have any teaching experience.

2. ...three days later a letter arrived, summoning me to Croydon for an interview. …three days later I received a letter, asking me to go to Croydon to have an interview.

3. He looked at me with an air of surprised disapproval, as a colonel might look at a private whose bootlaces were undone.

He cast a look at me with the same surprise and dislike as a colonel would look at a soldier when his bootlaces came loose.

4. The headmaster and I obviously had singularly little in common.

Apparently the headmaster and I had no similar interests or beliefs.

5. The teaching set-up appalled me.

The way teaching was organized filled me with terror (or, I was shocked at the teaching arrangements).

6. I should have to split the class up into three groups and teach them in turn at three different levels.

I should have to divide the class into three groups of three different levels and teach them one after another.

7. It was not so much having to tramp a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a crocodile of small boys that I minded, but the fact that most of my friends would be enjoying leisure at that time.

I felt troubled not because I had to walk for a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a group of boys, but because at that time most of my friends