What is culture? Culture is the shared characteristics and knowledge of a group of people,     1    (include) their language, religion, food, social habits, music and arts. The word “culture” has     2    (it) root from the Latin “culture”, which is related to the meaning of “growth”.

A number of historical events     3    (help) shape Western culture in the past 2,500 years. The fall of Rome cleared the way for the establishment of a series of states in Europe. The Black Death of the 1300 cut the population of Europe by one-third,     4     remade the society. Then the trade between East and West allowed Europeans     5    (explore) North and South America.

Eastern culture generally refers to the traditions in Asian     6    (country). Like the West, Eastern culture was heavily affected by religion during its early development, but later it     7    (influence) by the agricultural development significantly.

    8     culture differs from area to area, one thing is for certain; Cultures change. “Culture plays     9     important role in our interconnected world,” De Rossi said. “But it is no longer fixed. Culture is     10    (constant) moving and essentially fluid.”

Tang suit often refers to a type of Chinese jackets. The word of Tang suit was created by the overseas Chinese people.

Tang suit has two     1     (variety) in Chinese culture, which are     2     (remarkable) different from each other in style. One refers to the real Tang-era clothes developing from Hanfu,     3     (give) a free and easy and elegant impression;     4     other refers to the Man-chu male's jacket developing from magua of the Qing Dynasty, and it is made by absorbing a Western-style suit cutting method. A typical design of a Tang suit uses the Chinese characters, such as Fu and Shou     5     (express) good fortune and best wishes,     6     is extremely popular among the Chinese people.

Tang suit     7     (have) a great influence on the clothing styles of other countries up till now. The Japanese kimono (和服) is made     8     the basis of pao of the Tang Dynasty, and it has become the national clothing of Japan. As an essential part of     9     (tradition) Chinese culture, Tang suits     10     (wear) by overseas Chinese people during the Spring Festival each year, appealing to many foreigners to wear them. More and more young Chinese people are inclined to wear Tang suits instead of Western-style suits and dresses on their big days.

Thanksgiving, as we know, was invented by a lady named Sarah Joseph Hale during    1     nineteenth century. She was a book editor and wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb. She came across a book which had a passage that described a fantastic meal     2    (it) writer had following a fantastic harvest. This     3    (include) four huge turkeys that were shared with Native Americans of the Wampanoag Tribe. The passage inspired her enough    4    (fill) magazines with recipes for pumpkin pie and stuffed turkey that were to be used for celebrations. It needs to be noted that nowhere in the passage was the    5     ( tradition) Thanksgiving food mentioned. Several articles, also    6    (write) by her, mentioned how important it was to recognize the day. Her writings acted as an inspiration for many decorated     7    (story) as well as paintings on the subject of the first Thanksgiving meal. For five years she also sent letters to Abraham Lincoln appealing    8     the government to mark it as a federal holiday. It was in 1863    9    the first official Thanksgiving announcement was made by Lincoln thus    10    (make) it an official holiday.

Deal may solve TikTok's trouble

Tik Tok on Saturday voiced to hope that     1     useful agreement , which the bytes Chinese parent company , ByteDance, with Oracle(甲骨文) and Walmart reached , will solve various safety     2    (consider) of the US government and settle questions around Tik Tok’s future in the US.

The company based     3     the Los Angeles announced a statement on Saturday afternoon, hours after US President Donald Trump said he     4    (accept) a deal between the three parties.

Tik Tok gave away some details about the three-party agreement     5     (hand) over to the government on Monday and balanced by the White House so far,         6    (say)Oracle will become     7     (it) believable technology provider, and Walmart will play a role in business partnership.

It is also said both American companies will take part in Tik Tok’s     8    (globe) pre-IPO money-raising campaign     9     they can take up to a 20 percent share in the company.

A businessman who was familiar with the deal said Tik Tok     10       (actual) intended to finish the IPO on the Us market in one year if possible.