In some parts of the United States, farming is easy. But farming has always been difficult in the northeastern corner of the country, which is called New England.
New England has many trees and thin, rocky soil. Anyone who has wanted to start a new farm has had to work very hard. The first job has been cutting down trees. The next job has been digging the stumps (树桩) of the trees out of the soil. Then the farmer has had the difficult job of removing stones from his land.
This work of removing stones never really ends, because every winter more stones appear. They come up through the thin soil from the rocks below. Farmers have to keep removing stones from the fields. Even today, farms which have been worked on for 200 years keep producing more stones.
That is why stone walls are used instead of fences around New England fields. The stone walls are not high; a man can easily climb over them. But they keep the farmer's cows from joining his neighbour's cows.
a. remove the stones from the soil b. build a stone wall round his fields
c. dig out the tree stumps d. cut down the trees
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In England and Europe, there are a number of special wells called wishing wells. Some think that if you throw a coin into the water and, the wish will come true later. Also in England, there are other wishing customs thatat Christmas and on birthday.
At Christmas people like to eat the turkey and somewhere the turkey there is a special bone, shapedthe letter Y. It is called the wish bone. If anyone finds this bone, he is thought to be rather. He invites someone else to break the bone with him. Each person holds one arm of the bone and. When the bone breaks, the person who has the larger part makes a wish which isto come true in a year.
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