Jim Doherty may not be a born farmer, but he(1) _______ without too much trouble. Not that he has had it easy ( 但也不是那么容易 ) . That first hard winter he faced must have left him with the (2)___________ to give up and go back to the city. But he managed to (3) _________ it without losing heart. He’s picked up a lot of skills since then and made some real (4) __________ to his farm, though without much laborsaving machinery, (5) __________from that old rotary cultivator, I (6) _________ he does not made all that much, though he does have his writing to (7) _________ what little (8) ________he makes from the farm. I guess he does it primarily for the (9)___________ of life. Certainly, they seem a happy family and you can often see them out working together, one day spraying apple trees, the next (10) _______ firewood.