六级练习2014.01.05
[audio]http://sound.yywz123.com/tingbbs/cet6/cet620140105.mp3[/audio]What was the most popular mix about the United States in the 19th Century was that of the free and simple life of the farmer. It was said that the farmers worked hard on their own land to produce whatever their families' needed. (1)________________, but in general they could get along just fine by relying on themselves, not on commercial ties with others. This is how Thomas Jefferson idealized the farmers at the beginning of the 19th century. And at that time, this may have been close to the truth especially on the frontier. But by the mid century sweeping changes in agriculture were well under way as (2)________________. By late in the century revolutionary invents in farm machinery has vastly increased the production of specialized crops and extensive network of railroads had linked farmers throughout the country to market in the east and even overseas. By raising and selling specialized crops, farmers could afford more and finer goods and achieved much higher standard of living but at a price. Now farmers were no longer (3)________________, their lives were increasing controlled by the banks, which had power to grant or deny loans for new machinery, and by the railroads which set the rates for shipping their crops to the market. As businessmen, farmers now had to worry about (4)___________________and demand on for example, the of price of wheat in hands. And so by the end of the 19th century, the era of Jefferson's independent farmer had come to a close.
**** Hidden Message ***** They might sometimes trade with their neighbors.
farmers began to specialize in the raising of crops like cotton or corn or wheat.
... They might sometimes trade with their neighbors.
farmers began to specialize in a rising crops such as cotton or corn or wheat.
depended just on the wether and their own effort
national ecomomic depression and inploment of world supply they might sometimes trade with their neighbor.
farmers began to specialize in the raising of crops such as cotton, or corn or wheat
dependent just on the weather and their own efforts
national economic depression and the implement of world supply they might sometimes trade with their neighbors
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