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中级英语听力教程： Lesson 中级英语听力教程： Lesson 2 Au Pair Girl PAGE PAGE # Text A Gretel comes from Austria. She is eighteen years old. She is going to stay with the Clark family for a year. Gretel has come to En gla nd because she wants to improve her En glish. She works as an au pair girl. She helps Mrs Clark in the house and attends English classes regularly in her spare time. Gretel has n t bee n in En gla nd long and everyth ing is strange to her. She often compares life in London with life in Vienna. Some thi ngs are ni cer in London; other thi ngs are not so nice. For instanee , the shops are bigger in London than in Vienna and there is greater variety. But its more expe nsive to enjoy yourself i n London. Its expe nsive to have a meal at a restaura nt or to go to a theatre. Gretel has got used to many things already, but she cant get used to breakfast in En gla nd. You En glish eat so much in the morning, she often says. Fruit juice, porridge, bacon and egg, tea, toast and marmalade! How can you face all that food so early in the day? Text B Maria had decided that as soon as she had fini shed school she would become an au pair girl in London. Two of her 中级英语听力教程： Lesson 中级英语听力教程： Lesson 2 Au Pair Girl PAGE PAGE # friends had already spe nt a year with a family in Kensington, and told her they had had an interesting time and had man aged to lear n a lot of En glish. She was advised by her Head Teacher to get her pare nts consent and to make all the n ecessary arran geme nts prior to her departure : have eno ugh money for her return fare, know exactly what kind of a family she was going to live with and what they expected of her. Shortly after her eightee nth birthday Maria received a letter from Mrs Hutchi nson, the wife of an advertising executive , stating the terms on which she would be employed. The Hutch insons lived in a house in Chelsea. They had three children; two boys, aged fourteen and ten, both at board ing schools, the elder at a Public School in t