Hee-haw! Scores of farms across the country are opening up to overnight guests. The best have all the appeal of a first-rate inn ----- plus here a moo, there a moo.

Sure, you and your kids plan to conquer the theme parks. In the meanwhile, why not make a little hay? Farm stays are fast becoming the great American alternative to the pre-packaged vacation.

LIBERTY HILL FARM

Rochester, Vt.; 802/767-3926; www.libertyhillfarm.com. Adults$75, teens $50,kids 12 and under $35, including breakfast and dinner; shared baths.

Beth and Bob Kennett run a farm straight out of a storybook. You’ll find Beth in the kitchen, rolling out dough(生面团) for a pie. Bob’s busy with other work. Guests sleep in seven sunny bedrooms right in the farmhouse and can participate in any of the farm jobs. Maybe you and your kids won’t be up at 6 a.m. to meet the milk truck, but you can help with the milking twice a day, collect eggs, and pick sweet corn and wild blackberries in season.

HULL-O FARM

Durham, N.Y.; 518/239-6950; www.hull-o.com; Adults $110, kids 10—14 $60, 5—9 $50, 2—4 $35, under 2 free, including breakfast and dinner; private baths.

It started in 1993 as a way to bring in some extra money at a time of falling milk prices. But soon after Frank and Sherry Hull opened their Catskill Mountains dairy farm to overnight visitors, they discovered they loved it. As you drive up, Sherry greets you on the porch(入口处)of the 1825 farmhouse with a cow-shaped cookie jar. Before long your kids are playing around with the cows, sheep, ducks, goats and getting ready for a hayride(乘坐装满干草的牛车出游).

MERAMEC FARM CABINS

Bourbon, Mo.; 573/732-4765; http://www.wine-mo.com Doubles with private bath $75, $10 per additional person. Trail and riding fees extra.

Climb onto the back of the Ford pickup and catch up with the herd. One gentle cow named Cricket will even let the kids sit on her back. At the barn(牲口棚), Carol will introduce you to the horses ---15 Missouri Fox Trotters --- and lead you on a trail ride over the hills and down along the spring-fed Meramec River, where everyone swims. Grab a fishing pole and head back to the river. When you have your fill of the wild, try Carol and Dave’s favorite restaurants or wineries(酿酒厂), within 20 miles of the farm.

The underlined sentence in the first paragraph implies that ___________.

A. you can enjoy the best cuisine at the first rate restaurant

B. some farm provide country experiences as well as good accommodations

C. farm work is hard, but you can enjoy it a lot, playing with the animals

D. if you want to hear a cow’s cry, please stay on a best farm

We can learn from the three ads that _____________.

A. Hull-O Farm was not built for overnight visitors

B. Frank and Sherry Hull run a farm out of a storybook

C. kids can sit on a gentle cow’s back on Hull-O Farm

D. you can’t milk a cow if you get up late on Liberty Hill Farm

The Browns have a 13-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter. If they stay on Liberty Hill Farm for one night, how much will they pay?

A. $175.                B. $220.                C. $235.                D. $250.

Who will be most likely interested in the webpage?

A. Kids who want to find pleasure in the theme parks.

B. People who expect to be employed on the farm.

C. Researchers who are interested in raising cows on farms.

D. Those who plan to have family vacations on working farms.

Rosa liked making up stories. She was so __1__ that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the whole class believed her! At first she supposed it was __2__. Now, as she got up to __3__ before the class, She knew that make –believe stories had some way of coming back to make you sad.
Rosa’s parents were separated. Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer __4__, she went to her father’s farm in Arizona.
The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and __5__ with some farm work. Her father, however, was so __6__ that he couldn’t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would __7__ her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the __8__ he would always buy her a present.
When summer came to a close, Rosa __9__ to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a __10__ to talk about.
Not long after __11__ began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting __12__, like England and Germany. When Rosa’s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not __13__. Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to __14__.
When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could __15__ about her trip to England!

【小题1】
A.afraidB.worried C.sureD.happy
【小题2】
A.jokeB.funC.turnD.game
【小题3】
A.talkB.teach C.showD.travel
【小题4】
A.passedB.arrived C.lastedD.changed
【小题5】
A.madeB.played C.helpedD.did
【小题6】
A.weakB.pleasedC.busyD.lonely
【小题7】
A.showB.visitC.meetD.send
【小题8】
A.farmB.cityC.family D.school
【小题9】
A.wroteB.calledC.movedD.returned
【小题10】
A.familyB.schoolC.teacher D.farm
【小题11】
A.meetingB.schoolC.summer D.talk
【小题12】
A.peopleB.cities C.languages D.places
【小题13】A interesting     B. true            C. long              D. same
【小题14】
A.England B.GermanyC.farm D.home
【小题15】
A.think B.see C.remember D.read

 

It is reported that conservation groups in North America have been arguing about the benefits and dangers of wolves. Some groups believe wolves should be killed. Other people believe wolves

Must be protected so that they will not disappear from the wilderndss(荒野)

                            For Killing Wolves

  In Alaska,the wolf almost disappeared a few years ago,because hunters were killing hundreds

0f them forsport .However.1aws were established to protect the wolves from sportsmen and people who catch the animals for their fur.So the woIf population has greatly increased. Now there are so many wolves that they are destroying their own food supply.

    A wolf naturally eats animals in the deer family. People in the wilderness also hunt deer for

food.Many of the animals have been destroyed by the very cold winters recently and by changes in the wilderness plant life.When the deer can’t find enough food,they die.

   If the wolves continue to kill large numbers of deer,their prey(猎物)will disappear some

day.And the wolves will.too.So we must change the cycle of life in the wilderness to balance the

ecology.If we killed more wolves,we would save them and their prey from dying out.We’d also

save some farm animals.

    In another northern state,wolves attack cows and chickens for food.Farmers want the

government to send biologists to study the problem.They believe it necessary to kill wolves in some areas and to protect them in places where there is a small woIf population.

                           Against Killing Wolves

  If you had lived long ago,you would have heard many different stories about the dangerous

wolf.According to most stories,hungry wolves often kill people for food.Even today,the stories of the“big bad woIf'"will not disappear.

    But the fact is wolves are afraid of people.and they seldom travel in areas where there is a

human smell.When wolves eat other animals,they usually kill the very young.or the sick and

injured .The strongest survive .No kind of animal would have survived through the centuries if the

weak members had lived.And has always been a law of nature

  Although some people say it is good sense to kill wolves,we say it is nonsense!Researchers

have found wolves and their prey living in balance.The wolves keep the deer population from

becoming too large,and that keeps a balance in the wilderness plant life.

    The real problem is that the areas where wolves can live are being used bv people.Even if

wilderness land is not used directly for human needs.the wolves can’t always find enough food .So they travel to the nearest source,which is often a farm.Then there is danger.The“big bad wolf”has arrived! And everyone knows what happens next.

1.According to the passage,some people in North America favor killing wolves for all the following reasons EXCET that_____________.

    A.there are too many wolves                  B.they kill large numbers deer

    C.they attack cows and chickens for food        D.they destroy the wilderness plant life

2.Some people are against killing wolves because____________.

    A.wolves help to keep the ecological balance in the wildemess

    B.there is too small a wolf population in the wilderness

    C.there are too many deer in the wilderness

    D.wolves are afraid of people and never attack people

3.According to those against killing wolves,when wolves eat other animals,____________.

A.they never eat strong and healthy ones

    B.they always go against the law of nature

    C.they might help this kind of animals survive in nature

    D.they disturb the ecological balance in the wilderness

4.The last sentence“And everyone knows what happens next”implies that in such cases____________.

    A.farm animals will be in danger and have to be shipped away

    B.woIves will kill people and people will in turn kill them

    C.wolves wilI find enough food sources on famls

    D.people will leave the areas where wolves can live

 

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