英语专八改错突击练习（13）

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　　“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_____has great importance for many people.
This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream, dramatized in the history of nineteenth century European settlersof American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house _____2_____for one’s family, and started a farm. These small households were _____3_____portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to _____4_____support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _____5_____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_____is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.
3 d& G  p2 f) p( B& z& pWhen U.S soldiers came home before World WarⅡ, for example, _____7_____they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _____8_____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_____a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their _____10_____way of life.
3 H! N" p  x# ]+ u" ]参考答案及解析:
1 将no改为 not2 将place改为landplace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：
Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.
4 r' x7 x6 m4 c$ e$ n: 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。
+ ?: }5 s7 R0 y$ Z: W6 S6 BThere is a vacant piece of land near the house; we can build there.
+ t7 c+ R# N2 W- H$ _# B3 将started改为startstart应使用不定式，以和前面的find，build一致。
4 将working改为work。
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。
5 将anyone改为everyone这里是要用everyone指每个人，而不是要用anyone泛指。
6 将but删除7将before改为after根据上下文判断，这里要表达的是二战之后。
8 将But改为 And根据语意，这里要表达的是递进关系，而不是转折关系。例如：
4 y# s( }/ d# r  ]0 [When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that’s my religion.
+ E; x" i1 D; i0 T8 M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。
9 将it改为they10 在house the中间加入介词asregard…as 作“把……当作……”讲。