填空题 "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. 1
The 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 in find a
piece of place, build a house for one"s family, and start a farm. These small 2
households were portraits of independence: the entire family-mother, father, children, 3
even grandparents—live in a small house and working together to support each 4
other. Anyone understood the life and death, importance of family cooperation and 5
hard work.
Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal 6
of home ownership is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.
When U. S. soldiers came home before World War II. for example, they 7
dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was a tremendous boom in 8
home building. The new houses, typically it the suburbs, were often small and more
or less identical, but it satisfied a deep need. Many regarded the single-family 9
house as the basis their way of life. 10