专四专八

“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 settlers

of 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.

When 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.

参考答案及解析:

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：

Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.

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。

There is a vacant piece of land near the house; we can build there.

3 将started改为start

start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：

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that’s my religion.

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they

10 在house the中间加入介词as

regard…as 作“把……当作……”讲。

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