What can I expect?
Some farms offer upscale accommodations (hot (21) … and pools, gourmet meals, and designer furnishings), while others provide simple lodgings and a (22) … meal.
Some farmstays offer accommodations without meals included. These ‗self-catered‘ accommodations may be a shared dorm, a cottage, or a suite attached (23) … the main house. The self-catering option works best if you‘re staying in (24) … area, where you‘re close to restaurants or (25) … .
Farmstays cost (26) … most hotels. Guests can expect to pay between $100 - $200 per person, per night. (27) … New Zealand‘s flourishing industry of luxury lodges, which can (28) … upwards of $ 300 per night, farmstays tend to have more of a ―down home‖ feel, and this is (29) … in the price.
Farmstay (30) … are keen to share their lifestyle with international visitors. Here are a few activities you might observe or participate in:
Guided (31) … of the farm: Don a spare pair of galoches and some overalls before getting into a four-wheel drive to explore the terrain. You will interact with farm animals while farming activities (32) … viewed and explained.
Harvesting produce: Depending (33) … the season and the farm‘s particular produce, you could find yourself armed with a basket as you pick a bushel of blueberries, apricots, or cherries. Some farms, however, may not consider it (34) … for visitors to (35) … part in the harvest.
Sheep shearing: A day‘s shearing (36) … by more than one shearer to running a marathon, and seeing a team (37) … 300 sheep in a day will make you tired just watching.
Lambing: If you time your visit with the beginning of lambing season, you (38) … to see sheep giving birth, and bottle-feed lambs.
The season of your trip will help shape your farmstay experience. The warmer, (39) … months are the liveliest time of year on a farm, and less rain also means you‘re less likely to get bogged down in the mud in the ―paddocks‖, or pastures. Winter is (40) … the quietest time on a farm.

21.
a) tabs
b) tubs
c) tubes
d) types
22.
a) nosey
b) handy
c) mouthy
d) hearty
23.
a) at
b) with
c) to
d) on
24.
a) less remote
b) remote
c) more remote
d) very remote
25.
a) stationery stores
b) book shops
c) flower shops
d) grocery stores
26.
a) fewer then
b) fewer than
c) less then
d) less than
27.
a) However
b) Unlike
c) Although
d) In spite of
28.
a) buy
b) pay
c) waste
d) charge
29.
a) received
b) reflected
c) regarded
d) related
30.
a) guests
b) ghosts
c) hosts
d) goats
31.
a) voyage
b) trip
c) tour
d) travel
32.
a) were
b) are
c) have been
d) will be
33.
a) on
b) from
c) of
d) -
34.
a) saved
b) save
c) saving
d) safe
35.
a) take
b) do
c) make
d) have
36.
a) has compared
b) has been compared
c) compared
d) compares
37.
a) shear
b) to shear
c) sheared
d) shorn
38.
a) would be able
b) able
c) will be able
d) were able
39.
a) dried
b) drying
c) drier
d) dryly
40.
a) corporal
b) generally
c) soldierly
d) admirable

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