1 . Born and raised in Dunhuang, Northwest China’s Gansu Province, YaoYanbei _________ to Dunhuang as a promising _________ after graduating from a college in Xiamen.

In 2016, inspired by patterns in Dunhuang murals (壁画), Yao _________ a toy camel. “Through the toy camel, I intended to _________ the spirit of the locals who are usually tough-minded and hard-working,” Yao said.

In August 2017, Yao spent nearly a month inside grottoes (石窟) drawing the murals. “Staying in the grottoes from dawn to dusk, I felt _________ connected with the ancient artists who _________ the murals. It was an amazing _________,” she said. Inspired by the sculptures and murals, Yao later designed some innovative products, including T-shirts, bookmarks, pocket mirrors and key rings.

Thanks to the efforts of designers like Yao, the _________ and creative industry began to take root in Dunhuang. Starting from 2018, every year the city has _________ an international design week to help __________ the industry. “By pooling the wisdom of designers from home and abroad, we want to make Dunhuang’s creative __________ more fashionable,” said Liu Mengxing, a vice general manager of a local company.

Looking ahead at her __________ in design, Yao plans to __________ Dunhuang’s ancient art further and apply the wisdom of ancient artists to products of modern life. “I want to design more creative products that __________ to more international customers,” said Yao. “I hope my design can bring people __________ to Dunhuang.”

The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish from each other a lot. This is because the culture systems are two __1__ systems on the whole.

The origin of the eastern culture is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are gestated (孕育) by __2__. In China, the mother river is the Yellow River, __3__ the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures have __4__ for several thousand years and formed their own styles. Then in Tang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture __5__ went overseas to Japan, __6__ into the Japanese society and __7__ the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it __8__ to the same cultural system.

When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was   __9__ on the Mesopotamian Plain (美索不达米亚平原): 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 __10__ of the European culture. __11__ the Chinese culture, the European one is also __12__ to waters. When the colonists (殖民者) of England __13__ in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn’t __14__ from the European one a lot.

At the same time, the __15__ 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 __16__ based on the Latin system, for example, the one I’m using to write this paper.

Other factors like human race difference counts __17__. However, __18__ the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom __19__ until recent centuries. __20__ they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference from the other.