2 . 完形填空阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A.B.C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish from each other a lot. This is because the culture systems are two separate systems
____The origin of the eastern culture is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are gestated（孕育）by
____ .In China, the mother river is the Yellow River,
____ the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were
____ for several thousand years and formed their own styles. Then in Tang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture
____ went overseas to Japan,
____into the Japanese society and
____the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it
____ to the same system.
When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was
____on the Mesopotamian Plain（米索不达米亚平原） the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well-known as the
_____ of the European culture.
_____ the Chinese culture, the European one also
____ waters. When the colonists of England
____ in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn't
____ from the European one a lot.
At the same time, the
____of the language systems adds to the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic（象形文字的） languages while the Western languages are
____ based on the Latin system, for example, the one I'm using to write this paper.
Other factors like human race difference
____ as well. However,
____ the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom
____ until recent centuries
____they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference from the other.
1. | A．above all | B．on the whole | C．in all | D．in no case |
2. | A．mountains | B．plains | C．lakes | D．rivers |
3. 4. | A．developed | B．improved | C．created | D．protected |
5. | A．suddenly | B．quietly | C．gradually | D．naturally |
6. | A．mixed | B．changed | C．made | D．forced |
7. | A．expanded | B．interrupted | C．ended | D．shaped |
8. | A．comes | B．belongs | C．brings | D．adds |
9. | A．brought up | B．carried out | C．given out | D．picked up |
10. | A．result | B．sign | C．base | D．content |
11. | A．Through | B．Except | C．With | D．Like |
12. | A．affected | B．spread | C．crossed | D．formed |
13. | A．joined up | B．settled down | C．broke down | D．went up |
14. | A．come | B．suffer | C．result | D．differ |
15. | A．distinction | B．contact | C．appearance | D．feature |
16. | A．properly | B．hardly | C．simply | D．mostly |
17. | A．last | B．count | C．reduce | D．change |
18. | A．in terms of | B．due to | C．as to | D．in case of |
19. | A．transform | B．display | C．communicate | D．distinguish |
20. | A．Therefore | B．Meanwhile | C．Furthermore | D．However |
