六遥考试暑期备考的改错练习(5)　　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 familys 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 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