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All big cities are
quite similar. Living in a modern Asian city isn't very different from living
in an American city. The same cannot be said about living on farms, however.
In many parts of the
world, farmers and their families live in villages or towns. In the United
States, however, each farm family lives on its own fields, often beyond (在……之外) the sight of any neighbors. Instead of traveling from the village
to the fields every morning, American farmers stay on their land the whole
week. They travel to the nearest town on Saturdays for shopping or on Sundays
for church. Their children ride on buses to large schools for all the farm
families living in the area. In some areas, there are small schools serving a
few farm families, and the children walk to school.
Of course life keeps
changing for everyone, including farmers. Today there are cars, good roads,
radios and television sets. And there are also modern machines for farming. All
of these have changed the farm life.
Many years ago,
however, farming in America
was often a lonely way of living. Farmers usually had to deal with their own
problems, instead of getting help from others. They learned to try new ways,
and to trust their own ideas rather than (而不)
followed the old ways.
