完形填空：（共20小题；每小题15分，满分30分） In history,a real cowboy was a simple farm worker on horseback．

完形填空：（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
In history,a real cowboy was a simple farm worker on horseback．He spent a long time a day outdoors working with cows．The work was dirty,tiring and not very well paid．
People in the western states had to     36     cattle at low cost and send them by railway to the eastern     37    ．But someone had to     38     the cattle and get them to the nearest railroad．This was the job of a cowboy．Sometimes the     39     was more than a thousand kilometers away and it could take as     40     as six months to move the cattle．The     41     was long but the cattle were driven     42     as not to lose     43    ．Then they could be sold at a good price．
Most cowboys were young,     44     men．A good horse _45     their job of moving cattle much easier．A good cowboy     46     cows and knew how to control them．At night,he     47     to the cows to keep them calm．
In the late 1800s,America was changing from a nation of farm to one of     48     and cities．The cowboy seemed     49     pared with other Americans doing ordinary jobs．
Today,the     50     of cowboys has     51     greatly．One change is the use of trucks．The job is not so hard     52     it used to be．And cowboys are better     53     now．They are _54     to be married．Some of them are farmers or teachers or truck drivers．Some work for big panies．
    55     at night and on weekends,they bee cowboys．These part-time cowboys increase the total production of meat,keeping the beef price low．
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