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Recently, I visited my former classmate Leo in his new house, where he lives with his wife and daughter. Nowadays, he would like to spend his
h 1 and weekends making his house look more beautiful. Like hundreds of thousands of other British people, he has found the
j 2 of DIY. This means that if anything needs
f 3 around the house, he will try to do the job himself.
Leo showed me his new kitchen that he put together himself, and his newly-painted walls. I asked him
w 4 he got the idea of doing these things. He told me that it came from a DIY programme on TV.
This gets me to think about how
p 5 DIY programm
es are in the UK. Each channel(频道) has at least one home or garden makeover(改进;翻新) show. Some channels are e
6 completely talking about the subject.
I don't think it's really
s 7 that DIY programmes are so welcomed by people. There are two common British sayings—“An
E 8 home is his castle” and “There's no place like home”—which show how
i 9 their houses are to them. With the economic(经济的) changes in the last several years, many people don't have enough money to buy bigger houses. So they are looking at how they can make their houses
b 10 without spending a lot of money. DIY, obviously, is the perfect choice.
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