آزمون آنلاین زبان انگلیسی 2 - زبان انگلیسی 2 | آزمون شماره 5816

I don`t have a strong village feeling. There is a little salon and that is where most people go, although I tend to avoid it. The village always want to know what you are doing and if you don`t have too much contact with it in the salon, the people don`t learn too much.

The new people want a great community center. People who have just arrived in a village always want to do something in it or to it. They keep talking about amenities. I suppose they mean a car park and a big smart room. The young village people don`t want this. They don`t want to be organized and run. When their work is over they want to go off in their cars to the bright lights of Ipswich. The new people have a desire to hold together all the old ways while at the same time making sure that they have all the latest things for themselves. The old village people don`t see it like this at all. What they see is a choice between what is old and what is new. So they choose the new. You don`t want more old things when you`ve had old things all your life, do you? The new people are often just kidding themselves that they are real village people. They don`t just want to be accepted, they really want to take over the gentry traditions.

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