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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 __1__.
The origin of the eastern cultures 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 were _4___ for several thousand years and formed their own styles. Then in the 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 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 also __12__ waters. When the colonists 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 _17___ as well. 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 (干扰) 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．decided | D．forced |
7. | A．expanded | B．interrupted | C．influenced | D．shaped |
8. | A．comes | B．belongs | C．amounts | 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．Via | B．Except | C．With | D．Like |
12. | A．affected | B．spread | C．crossed | D．formed |
13. | A．joined up | B．went up | C．broke down | D．settled down |
14. | A．come | B．suffer | C．result | D．differ |
15. | A．difference | B．development | C．appearance | D．feature |
16. | A．properly | B．part | 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．Furthermore | B．Meanwhile | C．Therefore | D．However |
