56. What does the passage mainly tell us?

　　A. The cost of having a house built.

　　B. The American dream of owning a house.

　　C. The life of owner-builders in America.

　　D. A comparison between young couples and their parents.

　　57. It can be inferred from the passage that many Americans find it difficult to ________.

　　A. build a house

　　B. find a ready-made house

　　C. have a good job

　　D. buy a house

　　58. The underlined phrase “take the plunge” in paragraph 3 most probably means “________”.

　　A. decide to build a house

　　B. decide to pull down a house

　　C. decide to buy a house

　　D. decide to rent a house

　　59. From the passage we learn that ________.

　　A. Many house plans are offered free of charge.

　　B. Most of the house plans are offered by building instructors.

　　C. Most of the owner-builders design their homes.

　　D. Fifty percent of the American young couples build houses.

　　B

　　People tend to become more personal and hide less of themselves when using email. Researchers from Open University in Britain have found in a recent study that there are good reasons for this.

　　The team of researchers asked 83 pairs of students, all strangers to each other, to solve a problem. They had to discuss this question: If only five people in the world could be saved from a world disaster, who should they be? The pairs of students had to talk over the problem either face to face or by computers. Dr. Johnson said, “They told their partners four times as much about themselves when they talked over the Internet as when they talked face to face. When the computers were fitted with cameras so that students could see each other, this limited the personal side of the conversation.”

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