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Broken: Dreams of Rural Peace
It as dusk in Tubney oods, deep in rural Oxfordshire. The birds ere singing at the end of another perfect day. The oman living at the edge of the forest could stand it no longer. She phoned the local noise pollution officer.
"It's the rooks (秃鼻乌鸦)," she said. "1 can't bear that aful caing (呱呱地叫) noise. Can you do something about it?"
The call as no surprise to officials at the Vale of hite Horse District Council._______________(1) The countryside, as every country-deller knos, can be a hellishly (可怕地) noisy place.
Last eek Davicl Stead, a est Yorkshire farmer, appeared in court in akefield accused of alloing his cocks to break noise regulations by croing (打鸣) at dan, aking a neighbour._______________(2) Six months ago Corky, a four-year-old cock, as banned from croing after complaints in the Devon village of Stoke.
Complaints about noise reasonable or not - are at record levels in country areas. Environmental health officers say this is partly because of an increase in noisy activity. Hoever, a significant number of complaints come from necomers to the countryside.
There are many sources of rural noise._______________(3) Mechanised grain driers, usually sitched on for three eeks in September, can produce a maddening lo-frequency hum. Mike Roberts, chief environmental health officer at Vale of hite Horse, said noise often sounded orse in the countryside than in cities. ith less background sound, unelcome noises can seem louder and travel further.
The oddest complaints, hoever, are the ones council officials can do nothing about. Vale of hite Horse officials have been asked to silence not only nesting rooks. Pigeons and pheasants (雉鸡) have also caused concern, In Kent, council officials have been asked to silence baby lambs._______________(4) Another insisted he could hear an alien spaceship landing over the garden fence.
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And the lady ho complained about the rooks? She as politely told she ould have to put up ith it. " (5)" said Mr Roberts. "In the end, she accepted there as nothing much she could do - except move out." It is not recorded ho on, the lady or the rooks.
A Mr Stead said they ere only doing hat comes naturally.
B e asked her hat e ere supposed to do, shoot the birds, or chop the trees don?
C They have heard every kind of complaint.
D One man rang to say he as kept aake by the splashing of a fountain in the garden next door.