第五篇： Error Correction （15 minutes）
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 would be sold to buy a new ——71.
items in the local general store.
In 1860, because some of the farm population had moved to ——72.
the city, yet eighty percent of the American population was still in
the country. In the late nineteen century, farm work and life ——73.
were not much changed from that they had been in old days. The ——74.
farmer aroused at dawn or before and had much work to do, with ——75.
his own muscles like his chief source of power. He used axes, ——76.
spades and other complicated tools. In his house cooking was done ——77.
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 wagon to the nearby small town or ——78.
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 every day, possibly for a ——79.
few miles. The school term was short so that the children could
not help on the farm. Although the whole family worked, and life ——80.
was not easy, farmers as a class were self-reliant and independent.
答案： 71. nothing —— everything
72. because —— although
73. nineteen —— nineteenth
74. that —— what
75. aroused —— rose/got up
76. like —— as
77. complicated —— simple
78. consisted后加 of
79. that —— which
80. and —— /