Hi!My name is Rachel. I'm 14 years old, in the eighth grade, and I live on a dai-组卷网

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Hi! My name is Rachel. I'm 14 years old, in the eighth grade, and I live on a dairy farm(牛奶场)in Michigan with my dad, mom, grandma and my 12-year-old brother, Andy. I want to tell you what life is like on a dairy farm!

On our dairy farm, we milk about 55 cows twice a day at five o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the afternoon. We also have quite a few calves, some bulls and dry cows. Calves are babies, bulls are fathers of the calves, and dry cows are the adult cows who are pregnant(怀孕) and close to having their calves. So we don't milk the dry cow.

My brother and I help my dad with evening housework on school days. My mom works for the Michigan Department of Agriculture(密歇根农业部), so she helps out on the weekend. As we are at school or work on weekdays, my grandma helps my dad milk and feed the animals on weekday mornings. All of us are busy, but we all enjoy our farm life!

My favorite part of living on the farm is talking care of the baby animals. What I hate to do is have to get up so early, especially on the weekend!

When it's time to milk the cows, one person has to push the cows into the milk house, and another gets the cows ready for milking. If you look here, you can see milk flowing from the cow into a milk line and to the big milk tank(贮乳槽)in the milk house. It makes you thirsty, doesn't it?

【小题1】Where does Rachel live?
She___________________________________________________________________
【小题2】How often do Rachel's family members milk the cows?
They milk them____________________________________________________________
【小题3】Why don't they milk the dry cows?
They don't milk them _______________________________________________________
【小题4】Rachel's mom doesn't help with the housework during the week,does she?
_________________________________________________________________________
【小题5】What do you think of Rachel's family life?
_________________________________________________________________________

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