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仔细阅读下列短文, 根据题目, 选出最佳选项. 1936 George Black worked on the railway. He had got a good job and was paid 180 pounds a year. Then the next year he got married(结婚) and bought a new, three-bedroom house. It cost him 370 pounds. In those days there was a good and useful rule梩he price(价格) of a house was double the amount(总额) a man got in a year. Seven years passed before George finished paying for his house. George's youngest son Alfred was born in 1950. Alfred works for a newspaper and is paid 5,000 pounds a year. He has just married and bought a new, three-bedroom house for himself and his wife. The price of the house was 24,000 pounds, nearly five times as much as Alfred gets in a year. He wants to know what has happened to the old rule about the price of a house, because he will not finish buying his house until the year 2004. |
