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描写美国的乡村景物与生活，要有淳朴淡雅的美国乡村气息。

Answer 1

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Living in a remote location such as a rural area can have its advantages as well as its disadvantages. One of the more obvious advantages would be privacy. In many rural communities neighbors are fewer and far between than they are in the suburban areas, allowing more freedom to the occupants.

Building codes are more relaxed as well. Pets and animals can be kept and gardening, a popular pastime in rural areas, becomes more practical. Gardening can serve more than just a hobbyist’s pastime. It can serve to offset the costs of produce, and assist in a steady food surplus for the rural family.

A few of the disadvantages include increased time commuting to and from work, increased power outages and more difficulty accessing high speed internet and cable television. Of the people who choose to live in rural areas they agree that the disadvantages for them outweigh the disadvantages of living in more remote locations.

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« Moving to a Country AcreageGrowing Up in Wyoming »In many instances the differences between rural dwellers and urban residents are quite vast. They do not often cross lines such as urban dwellers to move to the country, or for rural dwellers to enter successfully into urban life or embrace urban culture and lifestyles.

There is no right or wrong way to live, be it either rural life, or urban living. The two are just so vastly and culturally adverse that not often are lines crossed successfully. People who move from urban areas into rural areas often find the lifestyle too relaxed, and lose patience easily, people who move from the more relaxed life of rural life often times find it difficult to adapt to the faster paced lifestyle.

Though some people do make the transition with varying levels of success, most people find the change to difficult to adapt to. There are a number of reasons one might attempt such a life altering cultural change including but not limited to health reasons, levels of stress, relationship issues, and mid life crisis in which a person feels they need an abrupt and very drastic change in their lifestyles to feel young again.

There is no real surprise why some people feel this need for such a drastic change. Our society according to some leading analysts and psychologists has changed from a progressive society based on domestic harmony into that of a short sixty second society. They begin to feel that something is missing in their lives, and reach out to the simple country life for a change in pace.

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If I could make a change in my life I would live far far out in the country. That way I could realize my dream to run an animal shelter. The shelter I would own would be “no-kill” shelters. The only way an animal would die in my shelter would be if it were really suffering or old and in pain, and nothing could be done to help it. I would collect all the “death row” animals from shelters all over the city and bring the animals to my roomy country shelter.
I could house many different animals such as dogs, cats, birds, pigs, cows, horses, rabbits and any other animal in need of my help. As soon as I receive the animal, I would size up its needs and decide if it should be adopted by an older person, people with kids, people with lots of room, or people with other animals. I would give them all their shots and check them for diseases such as rabies.
After evaluating and photographing each animal, I would type a summary of the animal's information and put it on my web site. If a person were interested in one of my animals they would contact my web site. I would then interview them to make sure they made a good match.
I would try to pay for all the animals' expenses by asking for contributions from companies that sell animal care products like dog food and dog treats. I would trade local veterinarians16 my help for their medical support for my animals. I would also charge a small fee with each animal adoption.
Ever since I was born I've had animals around me. Through my life so far I've owned four dogs, a turtle, tadpoles, mice, hermit crab, birds, and a rabbit. I have also nursed a baby squirrel back to life. I've appreciated animals ever since I was a very little girl. I have seen on the news what some people can do to their own pets, like abuse and neglect, and I want to be able to help those animals in need.

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After spending most of my life as a "city kid," it was with great pleasure and anticipation that our family moved to a farm in the southern Appalachians of Tennessee. We had dreamed about country life, prayed about it, worked for it, pictured it, and finally it became a reality. There is much to tell of how this all came about, and I am preparing a book that describes this very exciting time of our lives - how it began, how we found the farm, moving and adjusting to farm life, and more. I am often asked about how I like life in the country. Here are just a few of my observations, along with some scenes from our farm.

What have I observed out here in the middle of nowhere?

The beauty of the trees in all of the seasons...
The wobbling path that the moon takes on its journey
across the sky through the changing seasons...
The echoing laughter of the kids as they set out on a hike to some new place of adventure,
knowing how quickly their laughter will fade as they grow up and start on their own adventures...
The wonder of the first time that I spotted a golden eagle, and later, a real cuckoo bird...
Waiting and praying and cheering for rain, and appreciating the changing weather so much...
Watching the sense of wonder and awe as the children discover things like crawdads and
lightning bugs and shooting stars and seeing zillions of stars in the night sky...
Discovering God's creation in all of its glory, in snowflakes and bubbling creeks,
in blowing leaves and breath-taking sunsets, in baby ducks and new fawns on spindly legs...
And finally beginning to understand what it means to be still and know that He is God...."

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The quiet life of the country has never appealed to me

宁静的乡村生活从来没有吸引过我。

City born and city bred,

我生在城市，长在城市，

I have always regarded the country as something you look at through a train window, or something you occasionally visit during the weekend

总认为乡村是透过火车车窗看到的那个样了，或偶尔周末去游玩一下景象。

Most of my friends live in the city, yet they always go into raptures at the mere mention of the country

我的许多朋友都住在城市，但他们只要一提起乡村，马上就会变得欣喜若狂。

Though they extol the virtues of the peaceful life,

尽管他们都交口称赞宁静的乡村生活的种种优点，

only one of them has ever gone to live in the country and he was back in town within six months

但其中只有一个人真去农村住过，而且不足个月就回来了。

Even he still lives under the illusion that country life is somehow superior to town life

即使他也仍存有幻觉，好像乡村生活就是比城市生活优越。

He is forever talking about the friendly people, the clean atmosphere, the closeness to nature and the gentle pace of living

他滔滔不绝地大谈友好的农民，洁净的空气，贴近大自然的环境和悠闲的生活节奏。

Nothing can be compared, he maintains, with the first cockcrow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures

他坚持认为，凌晨雄鸡第一声啼叫，黎明时分小鸟吱喳欢叫，冉冉升起的朝阳染红树木、牧场，此番美景无与伦比。

This idyllic pastoral scene is only part of the picture

但这种田园诗般的乡村风光仅仅是一个侧面。

My friend fails to mention the long and friendless winter evenings in front of the TV -- virtually the only form of entertainment

我的朋友没有提到在电视机前度过的漫长寂寞的冬夜--电视是唯一的娱乐形式。

He says nothing about the poor selection of goods in the shops, or about those unfortunate people who have to travel from the country to the city every day to get to work

他也不说商店货物品种单调，以及那些每天不得不从乡下赶到城里工作的不幸的人们。

Why people are prepared to tolerate a four-hour journey each day for the dubious privilege of living in the country is beyond me

人们为什么情愿每天在路上奔波个小时去换取值得怀疑的乡间的优点，我是无法理解的。

They could be saved so much misery and expense if they chose to live in the city where they rightly belong

要是他们愿意住在本来属于他们的城市，则可以让他们省去诸多不便与节约大量开支。

If you can do without the few pastoral pleasures of the country,

如果你愿舍弃乡下生活那一点点乐趣的话，

you will find the city can provide you with the best that life can offer

那么你会发出城市可以为你提供生活最美好的东西。

You never have to travel miles to see your friends

你去看朋友根本不用跋涉好几英里，

They invariably live nearby and are always available for an informal chat or an evening's entertainment

因为他们都住在附近，你随时可以同他们聊天或在晚上一起娱乐。

Some of my acquaintances in the country come up to town once or twice a year to visit the theatre as a special treat

我在乡村有一些熟人，他们每年进城来看一回或几回戏，并把此看作一种特殊的享受。

For them this is a major operation which involves considerable planning

看戏在他们是件大事，需要精心计划。

As the play draws to its close, they wonder whether they will ever catch that last train home

当戏快演完时，他们又为是否能赶上末班火车回家而犯愁。

The city dweller never experiences anxieties of this sort

这种焦虑，城里人是从未体验过的。

The latest exhibitions, films, or plays are only a short bus ride away

坐公共汽车几站路，就可看到最新的展览、电影、戏剧。

Shopping, too, is always a pleasure

买东西也是一种乐趣。

There is so much variety that you never have to make do with second best

物品种繁多，从来不必用二等品来凑合。

Country people run wild when they go shopping in the city and stagger home loaded with as many of the exotic items as they can carry

乡里人进城采购欣喜若狂，每次回家时都买足了外来商品，直到拿不动方才罢休，连走路都摇摇晃晃的。

Nor is the city without its moments of beauty

城市也并非没有良辰美景。

There is something comforting about the warm glow shed by advertisements on cold wet winter nights

寒冷潮湿的冬夜里，广告灯箱发出的暖光，会给人某种安慰。

Few things could be more impressive than the peace that descends on deserted city streets at weekends

周末，空旷的街市笼罩着一种宁静气氛，没有什么能比此时的宁静更令人难忘了。

when the thousands that travel to work every day are tucked away in their homes in the country

当成千上万进城上班的人回到他们的乡间寓所之后，

It has always been a mystery to me why city dwellers, who appreciate all these things,

城里人对这一切心里很明白，

obstinately pretend that they would prefer to live in the country

却偏要执拗地装出他们喜欢住在乡村的样子，这对我来说一直是个谜。

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Yesterday evening,I went to suburb for dinner.I felt so happy.It really a long time since I went to the countryside the year before last year,though I live in a prefectural-level city.
Everything is fresh.Green ripe,low house with black brick,clean air...even the mountain breath like a new born baby.The rain was falling,so you can see light fog rose from the valley.How beautiful it was ,just like Chinese black and white painting.
The restaurant is small but well located.In front of it runs a stream.From the upstairs, people can see the Yun mountain clearly.Several kinds of flowers came out.Some pink flowers are shining on the cliff.Cuckoo are stand out among the green bush...
How much I admire the life peasant lead.In the city,I cannot breath the fresh air,I cannot hug with nature,I cannot watch the beautifully decorated starry sky.All I have are excise books and endless exam papers,while I stupidly cherish it as my big future...

Answer 2

My Summer Holiday
This summer holiday is a special holiday for me. I did a lot of important things. First I went to the field to help my parents do farm work. They are very hard.Second I visited my friends. Then I went to the disabled children's home with my classmates. We have fed them.They are really not easy. I will help them in the future. Finally I finished my homework carefully.
This is my summer holiday.

Answer 3

1 After years of frustration with city and suburban living, my wife Sandy and I have finally found contentment here in the country.

2 It's a self-reliant sort of life. We grow nearly all of our fruits and vegetables. Our hens keep us in eggs, with several dozen left over to sell each week. Our bees provide us with honey, and we cut enough wood to just about make it through the heating season.

3 It's a satisfying life too. In the summer we canoe on the river, go picnicking in the woods and take long bicycle rides. In the winter we ski and skate. We get excited about sunsets. We love the smell of the earth warming and the sound of cattle lowing. We watch for hawks in the sky and deer in the cornfields.

4 But the good life can get pretty tough. Three weeks ago when it was 30 below, we spent two miserable days hauling firewood up the river on a sled. Three months from now, it will be 95 above and we will be cultivating corn, weeding strawberries and killing chickens. Recently, Sandy and I had to retile the back roof. Soon Jim, 16 and Emily, 13, the youngest of our four children, will help me make some long-overdue improvements on the outdoor toilet that supplements our indoor plumbing when we are working outside. Later this month, we'll spray the orchard, paint the barn, plant the garden and clean the hen house before the new chicks arrive.

5 In between such chores, I manage to spend 50 to 60 hours a week at the typewriter or doing reporting for the freelance articles I sell to magazines and newspapers. Sandy, meanwhile, pursues her own demanding schedule. Besides the usual household routine, she oversees the garden and beehives, bakes bread, cans and freezes, drives the kids to their music lessons, practices with them, takes organ lessons on her own, does research and typing for me, writes an article herself now and then, tends the flower beds, stacks a little wood and delivers the eggs. There is, as the old saying goes, no rest for the wicked on a place like this -- and not much for the virtuous either.

6 None of us will ever forget our first winter. We were buried under five feet of snow from December through March. While one storm after another blasted huge drifts up against the house and barn, we kept warm inside burning our own wood, eating our own apples and loving every minute of it.

7 When spring came, it brought two floods. First the river overflowed, covering much of our land for weeks. Then the growing season began, swamping us under wave after wave of produce. Our freezer filled up with cherries, raspberries, strawberries, asparagus, peas, beans and corn. Then our canned-goods shelves and cupboards began to grow with preserves, tomato juice, grape juice, plums, jams and jellies. Eventually, the basement floor disappeared under piles of potatoes, squash and pumpkins, and the barn began to fill with apples and pears. It was amazing.

8 The next year we grew even more food and managed to get through the winter on firewood that was mostly from our own trees and only 100 gallons of heating oil. At that point I began thinking seriously about quitting my job and starting to freelance. The timing was terrible. By then, Shawn and Amy, our oldest girls were attending expensive Ivy League schools and we had only a few thousand dollars in the bank. Yet we kept coming back to the same question: Will there ever be a better time? The answer, decidedly, was no, and so -- with my employer's blessings and half a year's pay in accumulated benefits in my pocket -- off I went.

9 There have been a few anxious moments since then, but on balance things have gone much better than we had any right to expect. For various stories of mine, I've crawled into black-bear dens for Sports Illustrated, hitched up dogsled racing teams for Smithsonian magazine, checked out the Lake Champlain "monster" for Science Digest, and canoed through the Boundary Waters wilderness area of Minnesota for Destinations.

10 I'm not making anywhere near as much money as I did when I was employed full time, but now we don't need as much either. I generate enough income to handle our $600-a-month mortgage payments plus the usual expenses for a family like ours. That includes everything from music lessons and dental bills to car repairs and college costs. When it comes to insurance, we have a poor man's major-medical policy. We have to pay the first $500 of any medical fees for each member of the family. It picks up 80% of the costs beyond that. Although we are stuck with paying minor expenses, our premium is low -- only $560 a year -- and we are covered against catastrophe. Aside from that and the policy on our two cars at $400 a year, we have no other insurance. But we are setting aside $2,000 a year in an IRA.

11 We've been able to make up the difference in income by cutting back without appreciably lowering our standard of living. We continue to dine out once or twice a month, but now we patronize local restaurants instead of more expensive places in the city. We still attend the opera and ballet in Milwaukee but only a few times a year. We eat less meat, drink cheaper wine and see fewer movies. Extravagant Christmases are a memory, and we combine vacations with story assignments...

12 I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do. It takes a couple of special qualities. One is a tolerance for solitude. Because we are so busy and on such a tight budget, we don't entertain much. During the growing season there is no time for socializing anyway. Jim and Emily are involved in school activities, but they too spend most of their time at home.

13 The other requirement is energy -- a lot of it. The way to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices. Instead, you do the work yourself. The only machinery we own (not counting the lawn mower) is a little three-horsepower rotary cultivator and a 16-inch chain saw.

14 How much longer we'll have enough energy to stay on here is anybody's guess -- perhaps for quite a while, perhaps not. When the time comes, we'll leave with a feeling of sorrow but also with a sense of pride at what we've been able to accomplish. We should make a fair profit on the sale of the place, too. We've invested about $35,000 of our own money in it, and we could just about double that if we sold today. But this is not a good time to sell. Once economic conditions improve, however, demand for farms like ours should be strong again.

15 We didn't move here primarily to earn money though. We came because we wanted to improve the quality of our lives. When I watch Emily collecting eggs in the evening, fishing with Jim on the river or enjoying an old-fashioned picnic in the orchard with the entire family, I know we've found just what we were looking for.