’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 来源:www.examda.com 2. 将 place 改为 land 来源:www.100test.com 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 来源:www.examda.com 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。