A. Choose the one option a, b, c or d - that best fits each of the numbered blank.
I (1) _____my teaching career nearly ten years ago. I spent six years (2) _____ in a remote village (3) _____the villagers were very poor and the living standard was low. Sometimes I was very disappointed (4) _____ bad living condition and low pay. I was really homesick. However, at that time, with my youth (5) _____, I tried my best to devote (6) _____to the noblest career, that was "teaching". I loved my poor little students. They were living in (7)_____but they could not (8) _____from empty mind.
I am proud (9) _____ myself to be a teacher, a hard working "boatman" taking my students to the "destination" of (10) _____.
1. a. begin b. began c. have begun d. had begun
2. a. teach b. to teach c. teaching d. taught
3. a. which b. there c. when d. where
4. a. in spite of b. because of c. because d. though
5. a. enthusiasm b. movement c. emotion d. culture
6. a. me time b. my career c. my duty d. myself
7. a. poor b. poverty c. debt d. shortage
8. a. bear b. cope with c. suffer d. manage
9. a. in b. on c. about d. of
10.a. knowledge b. competence c. background d. experience
1. a. begin b. began c. have begun d. had begun
2. a. teach b. to teach c. teaching d. taught
3. a. which b. there c. when d. where
4. a. in spite of b. because of c. because d. though
5. a. enthusiasm b. movement c. emotion d. culture
6. a. me time b. my career c. my duty d. myself
7. a. poor b. poverty c. debt d. shortage
8. a. bear b. cope with c. suffer d. manage
9. a. in b. on c. about d. of
10.a. knowledge b. competence c. background d. experience