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The American cowboy（牛仔）was a great hero through facts and stories.
In history, the real cowboy was a simple farm worker on horseback. He __1__ twelve to fourteen hours a day outdoors working with cows. The work was dirty, tired and not very well paid. In the winter, most cowboys had to find __2__ jobs. They were seldom alone. Most of them worked in a __3__ of eight to ten.
People had to raise beef cattle at low cost in the western states and send them by train to the eastern markets（市场）. But someone had to look __4__ the cattle（牛）on the open land and get them to the nearest railroad. This was the __5__ of a cowboy.
Sometimes the railroad was more than 1,000 kilometers away and it could __6__ as long as six months to move the cattle. The cowboys moved the cattle slowly so that the cattle would not __7__ weight.
Most cowboys were young, unmarried men. A cowboy's horse was his most important __8__ A good horse made the job of moving cattle much __9__. A good cowboy understood cows and knew how to __10__ them. At night, he sang to the cows to keep them __11__.
The cowboy quickly received popular praise. Historians（历史学家）say that this was because the cowboy __12__ during a time of change in American life. In the late 1800s America was changing from a nation of farms to one of __13__ and cities. The cowboy seemed free and more independent（独立的）than other Americans.
Today, the life of real cowboys has __14__ greatly. One change has been the use of trucks. There is no __15__ for the modern cowboys to sleep on the ground. Modern cowboys are __16__ paid. They are likely to be married. Today cowboys are found in __17__ every state of the United States. Some of them are farmers or teachers or truck drivers. Some work for big companies（公司）. But __18__ night and on weekends, they become cowboys. Most have __19__ than 1,000 cows and some have only two or three. These part time cowboys __20__ the total production（生产）of meat, keeping beef low. Most modern cowboys do not make much money from raising cattle. Many do it because they love the cowboy life.
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1、花费时间做某事 2、根据上下文可知 3、根据后面提示可知 4、根据语境推得 5、从事的工作 6、花费某人的时间、金钱 7、短语“减肥” 8、根据上下文提示可知 9、形容词比较级 10、控制 11、根据语境可知 12、根据上下文可知是出现 13、在城市化、工业化过程中显然是工厂、城市 14、有了巨大的变化 15、没有必要再去…… 16、报酬更好了 17、几乎，副词考查 18、在夜晚的时候 19、比较级，根据上下文 20、根据语境可知 |
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