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1、Au Pair GirlText AGretel comes from Austria. She is eighteen years old. She is going to stay with the Clark family for a year. Gretel has come to England because she wants to improve her English. She works |1 as an au pair girl. She helps Mrs Clark in the house and attends English classes regularly

2、in her spare time.Gretel hasn' t been in England long and everything is strange to her. She often compares life in London with life in Vienna. Some things are nicer in London; other things are not so nice. Forinstance |2 , the shops are bigger inLondon than in Vienna and there is greater variety

3、. But it's more expensive to enjoy yourself in London. It's expensive to have a meal at a restaurant or to go to a theatre.Gretel has got used to many things already, but she can't get used to breakfast in England. "You English eat so much in the morning," she often says. "

4、;Fruit juice, porridge, bacon and egg, tea, toast and marmalade! How can you face all that food so early in the day?"Text BMaria had decided 3 that as soon as she had finished school she would become an au pair girl in London. Two of her friends had already spent a year with a family in Kensing

5、ton, and told her they had had an interesting time and had managed to learn a lot of English. She was advised by her Head Teacher to get her parents' consent 5 and to make all the necessary arrangements prior 6 to her departure 7 : have enough money for her return fare, know exactly what kind of

6、 a family she was going to live with and what they expected of her.Shortly after her eighteenth birthday Maria received a letter from MrsHutchinson, the wife of anadvertising 8executive 9 , stating the terms on whichthree children; two boys,she would be employed. The Hutchinsons lived in a house in

7、Chelsea. They hadaged 4 fourteen and ten, both at boarding schools, the elder at a Public School in the Midlands and the younger at a Preparatory School in Surrey;the youngest child was a girl aged eight, and she went to the French Lycee inSouth Kensington. During term time Maria would have to take

8、the girl to school in the morning and fetch her in the afternoon. She would have to help Mrs Hutchinson in the house - washing up, making the beds, laying the table, dusting the rooms, answering the door, taking telephone messages, shopping and running errands 10 .She would be guaranteed three eveni

9、ngs a week free and could attend English classes either from eleven till one in the morning or from half past one till four in the afternoon. She would receive 3 a week pocket money. Maria was delighted with the conditions and thought that they were fair. She also liked the look of the family, as Mr

10、s Hutchinson hadthoughtfully|11 enclosed |12 aphotograph with her letter.Additional 13 InformationIt was nothing for a girl t.o be sent away to service when she was eleven years old. That meant leaving the family as she had never been parted from for a day in her life before, and going to some place

11、 miles away to be treated like a dog. I've got nothing against girls going into good service.In my opinion, good service in a properly run big house was a wonderful training for a lot of girls who never would have seen anything different all the days of their lives if they hadn't gone. It wa

12、s better than working on the land, then, and if it still existed now, Ireckon 14 I'd rather see any of my daughtersbe a goodhousemaid or a well-trained parlour maid than a dolled-up shop-assistant or a factory worker.But folks are too proud to work for other folks, now. even if it's to their

13、 own advantage, though as far as I can see you are still working for other folks , whatever you're doing. Big houses didn't want little girls of eleven, even as kitchen maids, so the first few ycars had to be put in somewhere else, before you got even that amount ofpromotion |15 .Big houses

14、expected good service, but you got good treatment in return. It .wasn't like that at the sort of place my friends had to go. Mostly they went to the farmers' houses within ten or twenty miles from where they'd been born. These farmers were a jumped Up, proud lot who didn't know how t

15、o treat the people who worked for them. They took advantage of the poor people's need to get their girls off their hands to get little slaves for nearly nothing. The conditions were terrible.1 works >n.作品,著作；工廠,活動部件,機件參考例句：We expect writers to produce more and better works.我們期望作家們寫出更多更好的作品.Th

16、e novel is regarded as one of the classic works.這篇小說被公認為是最優(yōu)秀的作品之 "o2 instance >n.例,例證,實例參考例句：Can you quote me a recent instance?你能給我舉一個最近的例子嗎He's a greedy boy,yesterday,for instance,he ate all our biscuits!他是個貪吃的孩子 一比方,他昨天把我們的餅干都吃了！3 decidedadj.決定了的,果斷的；明顯的,明確的參考例句:But folks are too prou

17、d to work for other folks, now. even if it's to their own advantage, though as far as I can see you are still working for other folks , whatever you're doing. Big houses didn't want littlegirls of eleven, even as kitchen maids, so the first few years had to be put in somewhere else, befo

18、re you got even that amount ofpromotion 15 .Big houses expected good service, but you got good treatment in return. It.wasn't like that at the sort of place my friends had to go. Mostly they went to the farmers' houses within ten or twenty miles from where they'd been born. These farmers

19、 were a jumped Up, proud lot who didn't know how to treat the people who worked forthem. They took advantage of the poor people's need to get their girls off their hands to get little slaves for nearly nothing. The conditions were terrible.1 worksm作品,著作；工廠,活動部件,機件參考例句：We expect writers to pr

20、oduce more and better works.我們期望作家們寫出更多更好的作品.The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.這篇小說被公認為是最優(yōu)秀的作品之O2 instancen.例,例證,實例參考例句：Can you quote me a recent instance?你能給我舉一個最近的例子嗎He's a greedy boy,yesterday,for instance,he ate all our biscuits!他是個貪吃的孩子 -比方,他昨天把我們的餅干都吃了！3 decidedadj.決定了的,果斷的

21、；明顯的,明確的參考例句：But folks are too proud to work for other folks, now. even if it's to their own advantage, though as far as I can see you are still working for other folks , whatever you're doing. Big houses didn't want littlegirls of eleven, even as kitchen maids, so the first few years ha

22、d to be put in somewhere else, before you got even that amount ofpromotion 15 .Big houses expected good service, but you got good treatment in return. It.wasn't like that at the sort of place my friends had to go. Mostly they went to the farmers' houses within ten or twenty miles from where they'd been born. These farmers were a jumped Up, proud lot who didn't know how to treat the people who worked forthem. They took advantage of the poor people's need to get their girls off their hands to get little slaves for nearly nothing.