Trying to make some money before entering university, the author applies for a teaching job. But the interview goes from bad to worse...
My First Job
While 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 something useful（現在分詞表原因）, I applied, fearing（伴隨狀語） as（當） I did so, that without a degree and with no experience in teaching my chances of getting the job were slim（fear的賓語）.However, three days later a letter arrived, asking me to go to Croydon 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 to feel nervous.
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 from a busy main road.
NEW WORDS
Apply
vi. write to ask for (a job, membership. etc.), esp. officially 申請
application
n. 申請
interview
n. 面試；接見；會見
advertise
vt. make know to people by printing a notice in a newspaper, etc. or by broadcasting on television, ets. 為...做廣告
advertisement
n.
local
of, special to, a place or district 當地的;地方性的
post
n. job or position 職位
suburb
n. outer area of a town or city, where people live 郊區
slim
a. small, slight; slender 微小的;苗條的
depress
vt. make sad 使沮喪
depression
n.