Home sweet home is a phrase that expresses an essentialattitude in the United States. W
"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 cherished ideal of home 【M1】 ______
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 【M2】 ______
for one"s family, and started a farm. These small households were 【M3】 ______
portraits of independence: the entire family--mother, father, children,
even grandparents--live in a small house and working together to 【M4】 ______
support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance 【M5】 ______
of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the
United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership 【M6】 ______
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, 【M7】 ______
they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was 【M8】 ______
a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in
the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied 【M9】 ______
a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their 【M10】 ______
way of life.
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