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'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