Traditionally, the American farmer has always been independent and hard-working. In the eighteenth century farmers were quite self-sufficient. The farm family grew and made almost nothing it needed. The surplus crop 71. _________ would be sold to buy a few items in the local general store.
In 1860, because some of the farm population had 72. _________ moved to the city, yet eighty percent of the American population was still in the country. In the late nineteen century, farm work and life were that 74. __________ they had been in the old days. The farmer aroused at 75. __________ dawn or before and had much work to do, with his own muscles like his chief source of power. He used axes, 76. __________ spades and other complicated tools. In his house cooking 77. _________ was done in wood-burning stoves, and the kerosene lamp was the only improvement on the candle. The family's recreation and social life chiefly consisted a drive in the 78.__________ wagon to the nearby small town or village to transact some business as well as to chat with neighbors who had also come to town. The children attended a small elementary school (often of just one room) to that they had to walk 79. _________ every day, possibly for a few miles. The school term was short so that the children could not help on the farm. 80. ________
Although the whole family worked, and life was not easy, farmers as a class were independent.
答案： 71. nothing, everything 72. because, although 73. nineteen, nineteenth 74. that, what 75. aroused, arose 76. like, as/being 77. complicated, simple 78. (consist), (consist) of 79. that, which 80. not, /
that 74. __________
independent. 
