’Home, sweet home" is a phrase that express an essential attitude in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the family house is sweet or no sweet, the cherished ideal of home _____1
" @7 h0 O4 l. Z: W3 p2 p* A! W" q has great importance for many people.
/ k; m5 K* g% l This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream, dramatized in the history of nineteenth century European settlers of American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house _____29 ?7 C" J/ B$ {8 z7 H
for one’s family, and started a farm. These small households were _____30 K y/ o0 J; t. V. f% q+ U4 V8 j3 a
portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to ___4
( V# |, ?/ o& k" Z support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _____5! j: ]7 c$ i8 p, x- m+ u5 e+ Y
of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership _____6/ a& @8 ?8 O: B9 m6 V8 k
is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.* {6 p7 e% d* ~
When U.S soldiers came home before World WarⅡ, for example, _____73 h" V9 x$ s g6 Z
they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _____89 U; S- I6 r2 [; K7 F2 T4 }1 [
a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied _____9
5 A) ?9 ` L/ Q' Z8 U: @" m: W a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their way of life._____10
( W, a1 Y" c0 ^# J8 W+ n 1. 将 no 改为 not 2. 将 place 改为 land place是可数名词,作“地方”讲,而land意为“土地,田地”是不可数名词。例如:+ @6 A" y$ B6 e5 Z7 j
Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.
0 m5 b% Z: y4 J$ _# Y, E4 A 当你偶尔光顾时,独处是一个美妙的境地,但是如果久留,它却是一个糟糕的地方。1 Q" j2 T# c7 Y6 z
There is a vacant piece of land near the house; we can build there.
- O/ b8 ] W0 ~( O" r+ ~4 j) O 3. 将 started 改为 start P2 M4 p) c7 O1 `6 P
start应使用不定式,以和前面的find, build一致。+ |& i8 x% Y& N+ v) K/ G8 P o
4. 将 working 改为 work1 r5 ^5 N+ v* V) s [
work应该用第三人称复数,和live一致。另外,family在这里作“家人”讲,是复数。8 E. p; P% u+ c
5 将 anyone 改为 everyone
$ j+ q! u, ?1 u' D5 M 这里是要用everyone 指每个人,而不是要用anyone泛指。
( f/ T* Q5 [& f4 T 6. 将 but 删除 7. 将 before 改为 after" l% w9 L% q3 b
根据上下文判断,这里要表达的是二战之后。: e8 ~# X6 \+ M9 i
8. 将 But 改为 And
( D$ h' I9 E! o5 K6 [ B 根据语意,这里要表达的是递进关系,而不是转折关系。例如:
8 c Y d1 w: p; `- v" T When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that’s my religion.
) s1 ~8 |+ f8 a 当我行善事,我感到坦然;当我行恶时,我感到内疚。这就是我的人生之道。) T( X; I1 r$ F$ }
9 将 it 改为 they
- v2 t! V0 n) k/ I6 \$ Y 10 在house the中间加入介词 as& T+ q2 n$ l: n5 U4 a( N7 N
regard...as 作“把……当作……”讲。 |