A House in the Mountains

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Where was the property the speaker and her husband bought?
In the forest near Lake Tahoe
By a lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains
Along a beach near Fresno
At a resort in the Rocky Mountains
From whom did speaker and her husband buy the property?
A wealthy insurance man from San Francisco
A classmate of her daughter
Family friends
A retired couple they knew
According to the speaker, why did they buy the property?
They enjoyed spending the summers in that area.
The land there was very cheap.
They had heard it was a nice area.
They enjoyed visiting nearby resorts.
Why did the speaker like the property so much?
It was in the family for many generations.
They had designed it themselves.
They had many friends who lived nearby.
It was in a lovely setting by a lake in the mountains.
What is the main purpose of the talk?
To explain where her family lives
To describe her life growing up
To describe her favorite house
To explain how she and her husband bought some property
When my children were young we decided that since we lived so close to the Sierra Nevada mountains. 
That it would be fun to own property up there and take them up.
E very summer we went up there and rented a cabin and by this beautiful lake and we'd spend weeks up there.
And so we thought it would be wonderful to finally own one of our own.
There was an insurance man in San Francisco, a very wealthy guy, who ran an ad in the Wall Street Journal, saying he had all this property for sale, at Huntington Lake.
He was going to sell it by July 4th  to anybody.
So my husband decided that was just what we were looking for.
We went up there and looked over the property.
And it was perfection.
So we bought it immediately.
There was, a large manor house on top of the hill, made of stone.
And it had everything from a dishwasher to whatever.
It was a beautiful place.
Another one was like a motel.
It had several bedrooms,  two kitchens, two living rooms, and so on.
There was a little cottage right down by the shore.
That was perfect for a couple.
Another little guest cottage that would sleep two people.
And it was just perfect and so we bought it.
And it had been kept up so beautifully, and in fact,  all of the original linens and furniture and everything came with it.
We didn't have to buy a thing for it.
So we enjoyed that so much.
And we would let all of our friends borrow it for their vacations.
And, we would have all kinds of parties up there.
And it was just wonderful.
We could sleep a whole lot of people.
I remember once my daughter bought her whole class up there to water-ski and swim and enjoy the lake and the cabin.
And we would hike back in the wilderness.
There were other lakes back there that were beautiful to visit.
And this is a place just outside Fresno California.
Oh about an hours drive.