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新课标2015年高二英语暑假作业 4 （满分100分） 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分分） （共小题；每小题分，满分分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 So great is our passion for doing things for ourselves that we are being increasingly less dependent on specialized labour.No one can plead ignorance（对。。。无知） of a subject any longer, for there are countless do-it-yourself publications.Armed with the right tools and materials, newlyweds（新婚的人） gaily get down to the task of decorating their own homes.Men, particularly, spend hours of their leisure time installing their own fireplaces, laying out their own gardens; building garages and making furniture.But unfortunately not all of us are born handymen.??? Some wives tend to believe that their husbands are extremely resourceful and can fix anything.Even men who can hardly drive a nail in straight are supposed to be born electricians, carpenters, plumbers and mechanics.When lights fuse, furniture gets rickety（快要散架的）, pipes get blocked, or vacuum cleaners fail to operate, some woman think that their husbands will somehow put things right.The worst thing about the do-it-yourself game is that sometimes even men live under the delusion（错觉） that they can do anything, even when they have repeatedly been proved wrong.It is a question of pride as much as anything else.??? Last spring my wife suggested that I call in a man to look at our lawn mower.It had broken down the previous summer, and though I promised to repair it, I had never got round to it.I would not hear of the suggestion and said that I would fix it myself.One Saturday afternoon, I dragged the machine into the garden and had a close look at it.As far as I could see, it needed only a minor adjustment: a turn of a screw here, a little tightening up there, a drop of oil and it would be as good as new.Actually the repair job was not quite so successful.The mower firmly refused to mow, so I decided to take it apart.And I was extremely pleased with myself.I had fo