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Last week, I visited my friend Pete in his new home, where he lives with his families. Pete used to (过去常常) spend his free time 1.
travelling
(travel) around the world. Nowadays, he likes to make his house look more beautiful during his holidays. Like hundreds of thousands of other 2.
British
(Britain) people, he's found the joy of DIY and home repairs. At first, his DIY jobs left the house 3.
in
a mess, but now he's much better at it.
Pete showed me his new kitchen, which he 4.
put
(put) together himself, and his newly-painted walls. He laughed and told me about some funny 5.
mistakes
(mistake) he made while painting. I asked him where he got the idea to do these things. He told me that he got his ideas mostly from a DIY programme on TV.
This got me thinking about 6.
how
popular DIY programmes are in the UK. Each major channel (频道) has at least one home or garden makeover show (改造节目).
I think it's not really 7.
surprising
(surprise) that DIY programmes are so popular. There are two popular sayings in Britain—“an Englishman's home is his castle” 8.
and
“there's no place like home”. With the economic (经济的) changes of the last ten years or so, many people don't have enough money to buy much 9.
bigger
(big) houses. So they are looking at how they can make their houses better 10.
without
(with) spending a lot of money. DIY, of course, is the perfect choice.