以下是整理的《中級(jí)英語(yǔ)口語(yǔ)短文教程（2篇）》，希望大家喜歡！
Lesson 1 Too Clever Text A
A farmer who lived in a small village suffered from a severe pain in the chest. This never seemed to get any better. The farmer eventually decided that he would consult a doctor in the nearest town. But as he was a miserly person he thought he would find out what he would have to pay this doctor. He was told that a patient had to pay three pounds for the first visit and one pound for the second' visit. The farmer thought about this for a long time, and then he decided to go and consult the doctor in the town.
As he came into the doctor's consulting room, he said causally,´ Good morning, doctor. Here I am again.' The doctor was a little surprised. He asked him a few questions, examined his chest and then took the pound which the farmer insisted on giving him. Then the doctor said with a smile , Well , sir. There's nothing new. Please continue to take the same medicine I gave you the first time you came to see me.'
Text B
A man went to see his doctor one day because he was suffering from pains in his stomach. After the doctor had examined him carefully, he said to him, `Well, there's nothing really
wrong with you, I'm glad to say. Your only trouble is that you worry too much. Do you know, I had a man with the same trouble as you in here a few weeks ago, and I gave him the same advice as I'm going to give you. He was worried because he couldn't pay his tailor's bills. I told him not to worry his head about the bills any more. He followed my advice, and when he came to see me again two days ago, he told me that he now feels quite all right again. '
`Yes, I know all about that,' answered the patient sadly.`You see , I'm that man's tailor.'
Additional Information
Doctor: Good morning. How are you?
Patient: I'm very worried; doctor.
Doctor: Oh? What are you worried about?
Patient: I'm afraid that I'm very ill.
Doctor: I'm sorry to hear that. Why do you think so?
Patient: Because I feel tired all the time, even when I wake up in the morning. I find
it very difficult to do any work. 1 have no appetite. My wife cooks me
delicious meals but I can only eat a little.
Doctor: How do you sleep?
Patient: Very badly, doctor.
Doctor: Do you find it difficult to get to sleep, or do you wake up early?
Fatient: Both, doctor. I never get to sleep until 2 o'clock and I always wake at 5.
Doctor: Are you worried about anything?
Patient: Well , yes , I am. I'm worried about my work. I've just taken a new job.
I earn a lot of money but it's difficult work. I'm always afraid of making
a mistake.
Doctor: I see. Please take off your shirt and lie down on the couch.
Patient: Yes , doctor.(The Doctor examines the patient )
Doctor: Well , there's nothing very much wrong with you , I'm glad to say. You're
working too hard and worrying too much. Do you take much exercise?
Patient: No, doctor. I never have enough time for exercise. I start work very early in
the morning and finish late in the evening. Then I can't get to sleep.Can
you give me some medicine to help me to sleep?
Doctor: I can, but I'm not going to. You don't need medicine. You need advice.
Don't work so hard. Too much work is bad. for you. Don't worry about your
work. It's silly to worry. Take regular exercise.
Patient: But I may lose my job , doctor ! It's hard to get a job like mine.
Doctor: Then get an easier one , even if you earn less money.
Which would you rather have, health or wealth?
Patient: You' re right , doctor. It's more important to be healthy than wealthy. I'll
change my job. I'm grateful for your advice.
Doctor: Come and see me again in a month's time. I think you'll be a different man !
Lesson 2 Au Pair Girl 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 England because she wants to improve her English. She works as an au pair girl. She helps Mrs Clark in the house and attends English classes regularly 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. For instance, the shops are bigger in London than in Vienna and there is greater variety. 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. 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 finished school she would become an au pair girl in London. Two of her friends had already spent a year with a family in Kensington, 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 and to make all the necessary arrangements prior to her departure: have enough 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 eighteenth birthday Maria received a letter from Mrs Hutchinson, the wife of an advertising executive, stating the terms on which she would be employed. The Hutchinsons lived in a house in Chelsea. They had three children; two boys, aged 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 in South Kensington. During term time Maria would have to take 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. She would be guaranteed three evenings 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 Mrs Hutchinson had thoughtfully enclosed a photograph with her letter.
Additional Information It 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 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 was better than working on the land, then, and if it still existed now, I reckon I'd rather see any of my daughters be 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 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 of promotion. 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 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.