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英语专八考试改错模拟题：家，可爱的家
　"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

　　答案详解：
　　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。