“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.

參考答案及解析:

1 將no改為 not

2 將place改為land

place是可數名詞，作“地方”講，而land意為“土地，田地”是不可數名詞。例如：

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

當你偶爾光顧時，獨處是一個美妙的境地，但是如果久留，它卻是一個糟糕的地方。

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

3 將started改為start

start應使用不定式，以和前面的find，build一致。

4 將working改為work。

work應該用第三人稱復數，和live一致。另外，family在這里作“家人”講，是復數。

5 將anyone改為everyone

這里是要用everyone指每個人，而不是要用anyone泛指。

6 將but刪除

7將before改為after

根據上下文判斷，這里要表達的是二戰之后。

8 將But改為 And

根據語意，這里要表達的是遞進關系，而不是轉折關系。例如：

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

當我行善事，我感到坦然;當我行惡時，我感到內疚。這就是我的人生之道。

9 將it改為they

10 在house the中間加入介詞as

regard…as 作“把……當作……”講。

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