B. Because water pipes broke and nobody would fix them.

C. Because we have to share the washroom with others and carry water by ourselves.

D. All of the above.

5) Can you find out the words in the text to replace them: garden, repair, toilet?

　A. yard, flat, pipe B. fence, fix, pipe C. gallon, fix, basement D. yard, fix, washroom

6) The passage is mainly/chiefly about________.

　A. the places where they lived before they moved to Mango Street

　B. the life on Mango Street

　C. a dream house and a real house on Mango Street

　D. the reasons why they moved to Mango Street

Task 2: Read the text again and finish Ex 3 on Page 42．

Task 3: Self-assessment

Decide whether the text and the reading exercises are

A．quite difficult B．difficult C. not difficult D. easy E. quite easy to you．

List some reasons:

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Task 4: In English vocabulary there are American and British words． Sometimes they have different meanings． It is necessary for us to know them．

Do Ex 5, 6 on Page 43 to know more about American and British words．

Task 5: Oral practice