1 . 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 cultures 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 the 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(美索不达米亚平原)—the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of 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) language 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(干扰) from the other.
1. A.in all | B.above all | C.in no case | D.on the whole |
2. A.rivers | B.lakes | C.mountains | D.plains |
3. 4. A.improved | B.developed | C.created | D.protected |
5. A.gradually | B.naturally | C.suddenly | D.quietly |
6. A.changed | B.mixed | C.decided | D.forced |
7. A.expanded | B.interrupted | C.shaped | D.influenced |
8. A.comes | B.belongs | C.amounts | D.adds |
9. A.carried out | B.given out | C.brought up | D.picked up |
10. A.base | B.sign | C.result | D.content |
11. A.With | B.Like | C.Via | D.Except |
12. A.crossed | B.formed | C.affected | D.spread |
13. A.went up | B.joined up | C.settled down | D.broke down |
14. A.differ | B.suffer | C.result | D.come |
15. A.feature | B.development | C.appearance | D.distinction |
16. A.simply | B.mostly | C.properly | D.partly |
17. A.counts | B.reduces | C.lasts | D.changes |
18. A.in term of | B.in case of | C.due to | D.as to |
19. A.communicate | B.distinguish | C.transform | D.display |
20. A.However | B.Furthermore | C.Meanwhile | D.Therefore |