In most of Europe villages, a farmer’s house (1)…… of two parts, home to live and outbuildings (2)…… are built separately and are often used (3)…… sheds and stores. Every morning, farmers and farm workers (4)…… their village to work on their land and (5)…… their animals in distant fields. They have lunch on their fields and only return (6)…… their village at the end of the day. So, social life is focused around the community center, the (7)……

(8)……… most of North America, a different pattern has been established. It was borrowed (9)…… Northern Europe, but was put even further in the New World (10)…… land used to be cheap and even free. Farmers (11)……. and work on very large and isolated farms. The neighbors live (12)……. from one another. They only meet when they go to the (13)……… market or town to buy goods, materials, fuels, and services. The (14)…… associated with American farmers stems from this pattern of farm settlement.