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Some unusual words describe how a person spends his or her time. For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato. A couch is a piece of furniture that people sit on while watching television.

Robert Armstrong, an artist from California, developed the termcouchpotatoin1976. Several years later, he listed the term as a trademark with the United States government.

Too much time inside the house using a computer or watching television can cause someone to get cabin fever. A cabin is a simple house usually built far away from the city. People go to a cabin to relax and enjoy quiet time.

Cabin fever is not really a disease. However, people can experience boredom and restlessness if they spend too much time inside their homes. This is especially true during the winter when it is too cold or snowy to do things outside. Often children get cabin fever when there is so much snow that schools and even offices and stores are closed.

Some people enjoy spending a lot of time in their homes to make them nice places to live. This is called nesting or cocooning（茧）. Birds build nests out of sticks to hold their eggs and baby birds. Some insects build cocoons around themselves for protection while they grow and change.

The terms cocooning and nesting became popular more than twenty years ago. They describe people buying their first homes and filling them with many things. These people then had children.

Now these children are grown and have left the these parents are living alone without children in their empty nest. They have become empty nesters.

is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

warm us not to spend too much time indoors

give us some advice on how to keep fit

tell us some phrases and how they came into being

inform us of the interesting side of a language

dren are more likely to get cabin fever      .

they spend too much time in cold whether

r they play with snow for some time

they do their homework in the school room

they can’t go out to play for a long time

h of the following phrases is related to business?

h potato     y nest     n fever     ing or cocooning

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