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[简答题]Settlers of the Plains also had to contend with social isolation. The European pattern, whereby farmers lived together in a village and traveled each day to their nearby fields, was rare in the American West. Instead, various peculiarities of land division compelled the rural dwellers to live apart from each other. The Homestead Act of 1862 and other measures adopted to facilitate western settlement offered free or cheap plots to people who would live on and improve their property. Because most homesteads and other plots acquired by small farmers were rectangular--usually encompassing 160 acres—at most four families could live near each other, but only if they congregated around the same four-corner boundary intersection. In practice, farmers usually lived back from their boundary lines, and at least a half-mile separated farmhouses. Often adjacent land was unoccupied, making neighbors even more distant.
Many observers wrote about the loneliness and monotony of life on the Plains.
[填空题]Some people used to say that Dad had so many children that he couldn’t keep track of them. Dad himself used to (1) a story about one time (2) mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and (3) him in charge at home. When mother (4) , she asked him if everything had run smoothly.
"Didn’t have any trouble (5) with that one over there," he (6) . "But a spanking (打 屁股) brought him into line."
Mother could handle any crisis without (7) her temper.
"That’s not one of (8) , dear," she said. "He belongs to next door."
None of us remembers it, and maybe it never (9) . Dad didn’t always tell the (10) ., because there was nothing he liked (11) than a joke, particularly if it were (12) him and even more particularly if it were on mother.
Dad was happiest in crowd, (13) a crowd of kids. Wherever be was, you’d see a stri
