【正文】 在和自己年齡相仿的人聚集的公寓區(qū)或住宅區(qū)。年輕人離開學(xué)校后，就從家里搬到合租的公寓或小一點(diǎn)的公寓。他們自己做飯，打掃房間，可能回家度周末。年輕的新婚夫婦可能會(huì)搬到新人聚集的新開發(fā)的郊區(qū)居住。在鄉(xiāng)村，不少人甚至自己蓋房子。家庭收入增加后，他們常搬到其他郊區(qū)，那里的房子更大些，有兩到三個(gè)車庫(kù)，帶泳池、兒童游戲室，具備一切家庭需要的設(shè)施。老人通常不與他們的成年子女住在一起。許多老人住在老年之家里。有些老人住在專為老年人修建的小鎮(zhèn)上，那里沒有小孩，非常安靜。美國(guó)人總是在搬家，一些家庭隔幾年就會(huì)搬一次。每年有百分之二十的美國(guó)人改變居所。舒爾茲夫婦可能在紐約的公寓里開始他們的婚姻生活。繼而搬到新英格蘭一幢白色的小木屋中，窗戶很小，這是為了抵御冬日的嚴(yán)寒。最后在佛吉尼亞陽光燦爛的家中安享晚年，這里的花園栽有柑桔，寬敞的窗外就是泳池和大海的美景。 15. Have a Nice Holiday!Most British people take a twoweek holiday in July or August, when the schools are closed, but shops, offices and factories do not usually close for the holidays. If people can afford it, they go abroad, to sunny Italy, Spain or Greece.In the States, the school summer holidays are longer than in Britain (nearly three months in the States, six or seven weeks in Britain). American families often go out of town to the country for the hot summer months. Many stay at work in the cities or visit their families at weekends.When some people are on holiday, they like just sitting in the sun, but others want a bit more. 39。Special interest39。 holidays are very popular today. Do you like riding? Why not see the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, on horseback?What about a winter holiday? There are hundreds of ski resorts in the mountains of the USA, the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada and the Appalachians. You can ski in Britain too.Perhaps you prefer to be less energetic? Try a painting holiday, or a musical holiday, or even a puter holiday. You get some hours of teaching every day, meet other people who share your special interest, and have time to relax as well in a pleasant country hotel or college campus.ski resort 滑雪勝地假日愉快！ 大多數(shù)英國(guó)人在七月或八月休假兩周。這期間學(xué)校不上課，但商店、政府機(jī)關(guān)和工廠并不休息。如果能承擔(dān)得起開銷，他們就到國(guó)外度假，到陽光明媚的意大利、西班牙或希臘。 美國(guó)中小學(xué)的暑假比英國(guó)的長(zhǎng)（美國(guó)有將近三個(gè)月，英國(guó)只有六到七周）。美國(guó)人經(jīng)常全家到城外的鄉(xiāng)村打發(fā)炎熱的夏季。許多人留在城市工作，或在周末探訪朋友。暑假有些人只熱衷曬曬日光浴，另有些人不滿足于此?！疤貏e愛好”假日現(xiàn)在很風(fēng)行。喜歡騎馬嗎？何不騎馬游覽美國(guó)亞利桑那州的大峽谷？寒假怎么過呢？美國(guó)落基山脈、內(nèi)華達(dá)山脈和阿巴拉契亞山脈有幾百個(gè)滑雪勝地，在英國(guó)你也可以滑雪。 或許你想要運(yùn)動(dòng)量小一點(diǎn)？嘗試一下繪畫假日，或者音樂假日，甚或計(jì)算機(jī)假日。每天你聽課學(xué)習(xí)幾小時(shí)，跟與你有同樣特殊愛好的人碰面，且還有時(shí)間在令人愉快的鄉(xiāng)村旅店或大學(xué)校園放松身心。 School Life at CollegeThree months have passed since I entered university. I belong to the tennis club, which is great for my health. In the club I have made a lot of friends but, sad to say, I don39。t have a girlfriend yet.I am very busy with lessons this first semester. English is a required subject, so I have to get at least a pass. I had a good shot at the questions on the English exam yesterday. I probably scored at least 80 points. However busy I may be with my parttime job and other pastimes, I attend my language classes as often as possible, because if I am absent from more than onethird of the classes, I cannot get the credits whatever the reason may be. I spent much time preparing for Chinese, but the lesson was cancelled today!Tomorrow is the deadline for my physics paper which took me three days to write. I hope to major in science education in the future.shot 嘗試；努力大學(xué)校園生活升入大學(xué)已經(jīng)三個(gè)月了。我加入了網(wǎng)球俱樂部，這對(duì)健康大有好處。在俱樂部里，我交了很多朋友，遺憾的是，還沒有交到女朋友。第一個(gè)學(xué)期，我要忙于上課。英語是必修課，所以最起碼我要通過這門課的考試，在昨天的英語考試中，發(fā)揮得還不錯(cuò)，最少也能得八十分。不管我多么忙于兼職工作和其他消遣，我還是盡可能多上語言課，因?yàn)槿绻闭n三分之一以上，不管有什么理由都不能拿到學(xué)分。我花了很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間學(xué)習(xí)中文，不過今天這門課被取消了！明天是提交物理課論文的最后期限，我花了三天的時(shí)間來寫這篇論文。希望在將來我能夠主修科學(xué)教育。Nearly half of all Americans go on to college when they graduate from high schools. Some colleges are small, with only a few hundred students, but some of the big state universities are huge, with up to 60,000 students. There are more than 2,600 universities in the USA, and nearly all colleges have both men and women students.You can study many interesting subjects at college, in short or long courses, but if you want to get a degree, you have to study for at least four years. Classes start in September and go on to early June with a break in the middle.In Britain, you can get a degree at university, or in some of the many colleges of further education. There are 42 universities in Britain. There are also many colleges in Britain that teach English as a foreign language. Some have short courses (a few weeks or months), and some have one or twoyear courses.University classes start in September and go on until midJune with two breaks, one at Christmas, and one at Easter. Most degrees take three years, but some take four.大學(xué) 接近一半的美國(guó)中學(xué)畢業(yè)生到大學(xué)繼續(xù)求學(xué)。一些小的學(xué)院僅有幾百個(gè)學(xué)生，但一些大的州立大學(xué)著實(shí)很大，學(xué)生多達(dá)六萬。美國(guó)有兩千六百多所大學(xué)，且?guī)缀跛写髮W(xué)男女生兼收。 在大學(xué)你能學(xué)習(xí)很多有意思的課程，時(shí)間可長(zhǎng)可短，但如果你想拿學(xué)位的話，至少要花四年時(shí)間。大學(xué)九月開學(xué)，持續(xù)到下年六月初，中間有一段假期。在英國(guó)，你可從大學(xué)或?yàn)閿?shù)眾多的繼續(xù)教育學(xué)院獲得學(xué)位。英國(guó)有四十二所大學(xué)。有許多大學(xué)把英語作為一門外語教授。有些大學(xué)有短期課程（幾星期或幾個(gè)月），另有一些大學(xué)有一到兩年的課程。大學(xué)從九月到次年六月中旬授課，圣誕節(jié)和復(fù)活節(jié)放假。大多數(shù)學(xué)位要求三年學(xué)習(xí)時(shí)間，有些要求四年。 13