’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 way of life._____10
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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