24.Early in my travels, I had noticed these“new things” under the sun, and since they occur in increasing numbers all over the nation, it is interesting to observe them. From the beginning of my travels I had noticed the sale lots where they were sold and traded, but then I began to be aware of the parks where they sit down in uneasy permanence.
By talking to the managers of the parks and to the dwellers in this new kind of housing, I got to know that these trailers are wonderfully built homes. Some of them are even forty feet long and they have two to five rooms, and are complete with air-conditioners, toilets, baths, and televisions. The parks where they sit are equipped with every facility. When a mobile home is drawn to the trailer park (活动住屋的停车场)，water and electric power will be connected and the television antenna raised, and then the family settle down.
The park men charge a small ground rent plus fees for water and electricity. Telephones are connected in nearly all of them simply by plugging in a jack (插座). Sometimes the park has a general store for supplies, if there are no supermarkets nearby. Parking difficulties in the towns have caused these trailers to move to the open country where they don’t have to pay town taxes. The fact that these homes can be moved does not mean that they do move. Sometimes their owners stay for years in one place. It is a totally new and appealing way of life to me. These homes are never cheap and often are quite expensive with all the thousand appliances we live by—dishwashers, automatic clothes washers and driers, refrigerators.(10分)


24.1  The author noticed the “ new things” (Para.1）when       .(2分)
A. he worked in the country
B. he traveled on a sunny day
C. he traveled around the country
D. he tried to talk to manager in the park