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Some people would say that the Englishman’ s home is no longer his castle; that it has become his workshop. This is partly because the average Englishman is keen on working with his hands and partly because he feels, for one reason or another, that he must do for himself many household jobs for which, some years ago, he would have hired professional help. The main reason for this is a financial one: the high cost of labor has meant that builders’ and decorators’ costs have reached a level which makes them so high that house - proud English people of modest means hang back. So, if they wish to keep their houses looking bright and smart, they have to deal with some of the repairs and decorating themselves. As a result, there has grown up in the post - war years what is sometimes referred to as the ’ Do - It - Yourself Movement’.
The ’Do - It - Yourself Movement’ began with home decorating but has since spread i
A. how to be a do - it - yourselfer
B. the Do - It - Yourself Movement
C. the future of the Do - It - Yourself Movement
D. the origin of the Do - It - Yourself Movement
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Few people would defend the Victorian attitude to children, but if you were a parent in those days, at least you knew where you stood: children were to be seen and not heard. Freud and company did away with all that and parents have been bewildered ever since. The child’s happiness is all-important, the psychologists say, but what about the parents’ happiness Parents suffer continually from fear and guilt while their children gaily romp about pulling the place apart. A good "old-fashioned" spanking is out of the question: no modern child-rearing manual would permit such barbarity. The trouble is you are not allowed even to shout. Who knows what deep psychological wounds you might inflict The poor child may never recover from the dreadful traumatic experience. So it is that parents bend over backwards to avoid giving their children complexes which a hundred years ago hadn’t even been heard of. Certainly a child needs love, and a lo
A. at a loss.
B. on the alert.
C. under fire.
D. in the dark.
Most people would be (21) by the high quality of medicine (22) to most Americans. There is a lot of specialization, a great deal of (23) to the individual, a (24) amount of advanced technical equipment, and (25) effort not to make mistakes because of the financial risk which doctors and hospitals must (26) in the courts if they (27) things badly.
But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way in (28) health care is organized and (29) . (30) to pubic belief it is not just a free competition system. The private system has been joined a large public system, because private care was simply not (31) the less fortunate and the elderly.
But even with this huge public part of the system, (32) this year will eat up 84.5 billion dollars—more than 10 percent of the U.S. Budget—large number of Americans are left (33) . These include about hal
A. looking for
B. looking into
C. looking after
D. looking over
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