精听建议：

先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。

下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？

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Lesson43 American Homes

Many young Americans do not 1 their families, but in apartment blocks or residential areas where everyone is more or less of the same age.

Young people often move away from home when they leave school into shared apartments or smaller apartments. They do their own 2 , and go to the family home perhaps for the weekend.

Young married couples may move to new suburbs where most people have 3 . In the country, some even build their houses themselves.

If a family's income goes up, they often move to another suburb, where the houses are bigger, with two or even three garages, a swimming pool, a games room for the children, and everything a family could want.

Old people often do not live with their grown up children.

Many live in old people's homes. Some live in special towns, built for old people, where there are no young children and the atmosphere is quiet.

Americans are always on the move, and some families 4 their homes every few years. Every year, 5 of Americans move house. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz could start life in an apartment in New York, go on to a white painted wooden home in New England, with small windows to keep out the cold in winter, and end their life in a sunny house in California, where oranges grow in the garden, and big windows give a wonderful view of the swimming pool and the sea.

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