来 源：文都网校
配套课程：文都网校08春季四级 强化班 课程试听 优 惠价 150元
备 注：报名文都网校四级强 化课程，配套内部讲义电子版（word）可免费提供下载。
Exercise 2
"Home, sweet home" is a phrase that expresses an
essential attitude in the United States. Whether the reality
of life in the family house is sweet or no sweet, the S1.________
cherished ideal of home 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 the American West, was to find
a piece of place, build a house for one's family, and S2.________
started a farm. These small households were portraits of S3.________
independence: the entire family -- mother, father, children.
even grandparents -- live in a small house and working S4.________
together to support each other. Anyone understood the life S5.________
and death importance of family cooperation and hard work.
Although most people in the United States no longer
live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership is just as S6.________
strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.
When U.S. soldiers came home before World War II, for S7.________
example, they dreamed of buying houses and starting
families. But there was a tremendous boom in home S8.________
building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were
often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied S9.________
a deep need. Many regarded the single-family
house the basis of their way of life. S10.________
参考答案
Exercise 2
1. no → not
2. place → land
3. started → start
4. live → living
5. Anyone → Everyone
6. but →
7. before → after
8. But → So/ Therefore
9. it → they
10. the → as the
