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  3. It’s a nice house: good schools, good neighborhood, decent commute. It even looks nice. But so does the house next door. And the

It’s a nice house: good schools, good neighborhood, decent commute. It even looks nice. But so does the house next door. And the

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问题     It’s a nice house: good schools, good neighborhood, decent commute. It even looks nice. But so does the house next door. And the one next door to that. In fact, they all look just the same. Welcome to a cookie-cutter neighborhood. They’re all around the region, subdivisions with blocks of near-identical houses.
    Many home shoppers now are relieved to find anything at all to buy in what continues to be a tight market. But what about resale value? If demand is softer, will buyers still be willing to look at cookie-cutter houses? Or will sellers be stuck, their homes languishing on the market because there’s so much competition from similar houses?
    Local real estate agents say no. They say that homeowners can take plenty of steps to sell even a cookie-cutter house as fast as they could move any other house in town. "Everything really depends on how the home is priced. If it’s priced right, it will sell, even if it looks like its neighbors," said Frances Hawkins, an agent with the Bethesda office of Weichert Realtors. "Another important thing is location. People want a good location. Location and price are far more important than what the neighboring house looks like."
    Not everyone agrees. "I think buyers don’t want that anymore, especially when they reach a point in their career where it’s not just a matter of survival but a matter of choosing their own style," said Michael Hill, president of Emerge Homes, a D.C.-based custom homebuilder. Like most custom builders, he builds houses that are the opposite of cookie-cutter. "When people reach that level economically, they are definitely more interested in style and visual appeal."
    Indeed, even many production builders make an effort to offer a variety of house styles, particularly in those developments that are positioned as new towns. But the economics of building dictate that in many cases, especially in neighborhoods priced to attract first-time buyers, houses can be very, very similar.
Why does the text imply that there are so many neighborhoods with houses that look similar?
选项 A、Buyers prefer them.
B、They are cheaper to produce.
C、A slow real estate market.
D、Local building codes.
答案B
解析 属信息推断题。根据本文最后一句的信息：“在很多情况下，特别是在价格对初次买房者有吸引力的住宅区，房子可以千篇一律”可知，众多住宅区的房子外观相似是因为造价便宜。
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