What is the best question to ask after you read the passage? The House
OA. Why does the couple take so long to buy a house?
OB. Why is the inspector late?
OC. Are house Inspections a good idea?
OD. How many children does the couple have?
It was their dream house--not because it was huge or
gorgeous, but because for so many years they'd wanted to
own one. Their children were 10, 12 and 15 years old. They
had dragged them to four or five apartments and a few
trailers while they saved money. But then Henry would lose
his job, or Sandra would lose a big client for her accounting
work, and they wouldn't be able to buy a house. Finally, they
had, and now they waited for the inspector to meet them
and assure them that the foundation was solid, the roof
would last several more years and the heater was in good
shape. But he was 25 minutes late.
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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.