高三英语阅读理解限时训练（3）
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How would you like to come home after a long day, open the door, and walk into an elephant? That’s what you would do if you lived in Elephant House in Margete, New Jersey. The elephant-shaped house was built in 1881 by James Lafferty. In 1962, Herbert Green built a chicken-shaped house.
Sarah Winchester tried to build a ghost-proof house in San Jose California. Workers built fake chimneys, doors that open onto blank walls and stairs that lead nowhere. Many rooms were torn down and then rebuilt in a new way to confuse the ghosts. It took 38 years to complete the house!
Some houses are built of strange materials. A house in Pigeon Cove, M assachus
