小白是公司白领，自从跟着同事去延庆农家度了次周末后，就深深爱上了农家乐这种休闲放松方式。她说在城市的钢筋水泥森林里，经受工作的巨大压力，心情变得非常烦躁，以前排遣方式就是四处购物。每次冲动之后再面对那些自己都不需要的东西，她就会意识到这种方式实在不健康。

        现在每到周末，她和先生自驾车到城市周边寻找能够躲避喧嚣的好去处，享受丰盛的农家饭，饭后还能自己亲手采摘水果，最后还能带回分享喜悦。

        最近几年，农家乐这种休闲方式开始在城市近郊兴起。都市白领周末近郊度假，吃农家饭，睡农家屋，经济又环保。这些农庄大多依山傍水。在这里可以采摘、烧烤、爬山、泛舟，与大自然亲密接触。越来越多的都市人开始喜欢这种纯朴、自然的休闲方式。

Weekend Farm Tour

Xiaobai is a white collar employee. Since her last weekend tour to a farm in Yanqing, she has fallen in love with this way of relaxing. She said she often felt disturbed by enormousworkingpressure in the armored concrete forest in the city. Her way of relaxing used to be shopping. Every time after impulse shopping, when she faced things that she did not really need, she realized that this way of relaxing is not healthy.
Now at weekends, she and her husband like to drive to the suburbs of Beijing and find a good place away from the uproar and enjoyed sumptuous farmer meals. After meal, she can pick fruits by herself and bring some back home.
In recent years, farm tour as a way of leisure has sprung up in the suburbs of Beijing. White collar employees like to spend their weekends in the suburbs, eat farmer meals, sleep in farm houses, which is both economical and environment friendly. Most of farms are near to hills or by river. One can pick fruits, barbecue, climb hills or go boating and be close to nature. More and more urban residents begin to love this simple and natural way of relaxation.

• collar [´kɔlə]   n.衣领；(狗等的)项圈   (初中英语单词)
• enormous [i´nɔ:məs]   a.巨大地，很，极   (初中英语单词)
• working [´wə:kiŋ]   a.工人的；劳动的   (初中英语单词)
• pressure [´preʃə]   n.压榨 vt.对...施压力   (初中英语单词)
• impulse [´impʌls]   n.推动(力)；冲动；刺激   (初中英语单词)
• concrete [´kɔŋkri:t]   a.具体的 n.混凝土   (高中英语单词)
• leisure [´leʒə]   n.空闲；悠闲；安定   (高中英语单词)
• sprung [sprʌŋ]   spring的过去分词   (高中英语单词)
• environment [in´vaiərənmənt]   n.郊区；周围；条件   (高中英语单词)
• weekend [´wi:kend, ,wi:k´end]   n.周末休假   (英语四级单词)
• uproar [´ʌprɔ:]   n.喧嚣；骚动；轰鸣，轰动   (英语四级单词)
• economical [,i:kə´nɔmikəl]   a.节俭的；经济的   (英语四级单词)
• sumptuous [´sʌmptʃuəs]   a.奢侈的；豪华的   (英语六级单词)