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Tham khảo tài liệu 'learning toefl reading 500_5', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 5 from the pursuit of pleasure. City and country dwellers of course conducted this pursuit in different ways. Farm dwellers in their isolation not only found it harder to locate companions in play but also thanks to the unending demands and pressures of their work felt it necessary to combine fun with purpose. No other set of colonists took so seriously one expression of 10 the period Leasure is time for doing something useful. In the countryside farmers therefore relieved the burden of the daily routine with such double-purpose relaxations as hunting fishing and trapping. When a neighbor needed help families rallied from miles around to assist in building a house or barn husking corn shearing sheep or chopping wood. Food drink and celebration after the group work provided relaxation 15 and soothed weary muscles. The most eagerly anticipated social events were the rural fairs. Hundreds of men women and children attended from far and near. The men bought or traded farm animals and acquired needed merchandise while the women displayed food prepared in their kitchens and everyone including the youngsters watched or participated in a 20 variety of competitive sports with prizes awarded to the winners. These events typically included horse races wrestling matches and foot races as well as some nonathletic events such as whistling competitions. No other occasions did so much to relieve the isolation of farm existence. With the open countryside everywhere at hand city dwellers naturally shard in 25 some of the rural diversions. Favored recreations included fishing hunting skating and swimming. But city dwellers also developed other pleasures which only compact communities made possible. 42. What is the passage mainly about A Methods of farming used by early settlers of the United States B Hardships faced by the early settlers of the United States C Methods of buying selling and trading used by early settlers of the United States D Ways in which early settlers of the .