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As prices and building costs keep rising, the"do-it-yourself"(DIY) trend (趋势) in the U.S.continues to grow."We needed furniture(家具) for our living room," says John Ross,"and we just didn’t have enough money to buy it.So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs."John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a two-week course for $280 at a night school.Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died.He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoemaking factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420."I was deeply upset about it.Now I’ve finished a car repair course. I should be able to fix the car by myself."John and Jim are not unusual people.In order to save money, most families in the country are doing everything they can so that they can fight the high cost of living.If you want to become a "do-it-yourselfer," you can go to DIY classes.And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself. We can learn from the text that many newly married people().
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Passage 1For years, astronomers straggled to calculate the age of the universe. Estimates ranged from 10 to 20 billion years old, a frustratingly large spread. But that was before the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, named after the astronomer whose discovery 70 years ago began the quest to learn the universe's age.Edwin Hubble found that the galaxies (星系) within the universe are speeding away from each other at a rate proportional to their distance. That expansion rate----the Hubble constant (常数)----is the key to calculating the age and size of the universe. But pinning down the constant requires precise measurements of the distances to far-flung galaxies.In May, a team led by Wendy Freeman of the Carnegie Institution, of Washington, D. C., announced the result of eight years of Hubble measurements: The universe is expanding at a rate of 21 kilometers per million light-years. That translates to an age of approximately 12 billion years for the universe. similar to the value for the oldest stare."After all these years," says Freeman. "we are finally entering an era of precision cosmology (宇宙论). Now we can more reliably address the broader picture of the universe's origin, evolution, and destiny."Is the new number the last word Not quite. In June, astronomers using a large array of radio telescopes reported a measurement to a distant galaxy that would make the universe 15 percent younger than Hubble's results. What is the best title for the passage（）
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