【题目】Answer the questions.

For millions of people, the American dream of owning a home seemed to be slipping out of reach.

“Maybe young couples can no longer afford to buy a ready-made house as their parents did,’’ says 40-year-old building instructor Pat Hennin. “But they can still have a home. Like their pioneer ancestors, they can build it themselves, and at less than half the cost of a ready-made house.”

The owner-builders came from every occupational group, although surprisingly few are professional building workers. Many take the plunge with little or no experience. “I learned how to build my house from reading books,” says John Brown, who built a six-room home for $25,000 in High Falls, New Jersey. “If you have patience and the carpentry(木工)skill to make a bookcase, you can build a house.”

An astonishing 50 percent of these owner builders hammer every nail, 1ay every pipe, and wire every switch with their own hands. The rest contract for some parts of the task. But even those who just act as contractors and finish the insides of their homes can save from 30 percent to 45 percent of what a ready-made home would cost.

One survey revealed that 60 percent of owner-builders also design their homes. Many others buy commercial house plans for less than $100 or use plans available from the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

1Maybe American young people can’t afford to buy a ready-made house, can they?

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2How can American young couples have a home?

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3Are all the owner-builders experienced?

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4Why do the owner-builders build houses with their own hands?

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5How many percent of the owner-builders design their homes?

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6How much does a commercial house plan cost?

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【题目】Choose the best answer and complete the passage.

Men sometimes say,“We are better and cleverer than women. Women _____________ invent things, we do." It is true that men have invented a lot of useful things: machines, radios, and guns, too. But scientists and archaeologists

(考古学家)now agree that women invented one very important thing. It has changed ______________. They invented agriculture. Before the invention of agriculture men were _____________. They went out every day. Sometimes they killed animals and sometimes animals killed them. Life was difficult and dangerous. Women had to go out every day, too. They collected roots, fruit and grass. Then, one day more than 10,000 years ago, a woman dropped some grass seeds near her home in the Middle East. They grew, and the first wheat was ______________. The idea grew, too. Women planted roots and fruit trees. Then they could stay at home and look after the children and the animals. Women like baby animals. Archaeologists think that women _____________ the first domestic animals: dogs, cows sheep and goats. That idea grew, too. Then their husbands did not have to go hunting for meat. They stayed at home. They built villages and _____________. Civilization began. Men began civilization after women invented agriculture.

1A. everB. neverC. sometimesD. often

2A. historyB. ideaC. opinionD. society

3A. farmersB. workersC. huntersD. inventors

4A. appearedB. bornC. soldD. bought

5A. likedB. boughtC. keptD. brought

6A. countriesB. nationsC. statesD. cities

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