| 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. I could
see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. Obviously I would be
overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady
income and travel privileges those being particularly welcome to someone living
a long way from the city A. he could no longer afford to live without one B. he wanted to work in the centre of London C. he had received suitable training D. he was not interested in any other available job [单项选择]On the way home my wife saw a bookshelf outside a shop. " (41) it," she said. "We’ll (42) it home on the roof-rack. I’ve always wanted one like that." Ten minutes (43) we were back with the bookshelf. I drove slowly. Other (44) seemed more polite than usual. The driver even stopped traffic to let us through. After a while my wife said, "There’s a long line of cars (45) . Why don’t they overtake (超车) " Just at that time a police car did overtake, and two officers inside asked us to (46) their car through the busy traffic. The police car stopped at the church. One of the officers came to me and said, "Do you need any more (47) now " I said, "You’ve been very (48) . We live just down the road." He’was looking at the bookshelf. "Oh," he said and (49) , "we thought it was something else." Suddenly I understood (50) the police drove here.
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