Each year, thousands of Chinese middle school students go to study in foreign countries.

“Chinese children hope to study abroad(到国外)to _______ a wider view(视野)of the world.” said a Chinese writer called Chen Yi. Chen told the parents and their children that life in foreign countries can be hard for young people. “They have to meet a _______ shock(冲击)and language problems.”

However, these are not the most difficult things. To most children looking after _______ when studying alone in a foreign country is a big challenge(挑战).

Zhang Jia began to study in a high school in Australia last October. To his surprise, his teachers there didn’t _________students to study. And _______there wasn’t homework. “With these education(教育)systems, we have more _______ time and more space for thinking.” said Zhang. “But if you don’t know how to _______ your time and money. you will not have an easy time.”

“Studying abroad at a young age can help students learn foreign language _______ and broaden(拓宽)their minds, but students and parents should know about the challenges,” Chen said.

_______ you want to study abroad, try to talk to someone with ________ in foreign countries. Make sure that you are ready for it.

1.A.get B.try C.mix D.set

2.A.interest B.trust C.culture D.message

3.A.they B.them C.their D.themselves

4.A.mind B.push C.avoid D.train

5.A.usually B.yet C.just D.never

6.A.busy B.safe C.boring D.free

7.A.plan B.have C.miss D.take

8.A.happily B.quickly C.carefully D.suddenly

9.A.Although B.Whether C.Why D.When

10.A.suggestions B.competitions C.experience D.information

The cultures of the east and the west are really different from each other. This is because the culture systems are two separate systems on the whole.

The origin of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are started by rivers. In China, the mother river is the Yellow River while the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were developed for several thousand years and formed their own styles. Then in Tang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture gradually went overseas to Japan, mixed into the Japanese society and shaped the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it belongs to the same system.

When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was brought up on the Mesopotamian Plain—the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the culture of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well-known as the base of the European culture. Like the Chinese culture, the European one also crossed waters. When the colonists(殖民者)of England settled down in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn't differ from the European one a lot.

At the same time, the difference of the language system adds to the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic(象形的)language while the Western languages are mostly based on the Latin system, for example, the one I'm using to write this paper.

Other factors(因素)like human race difference counts as well. But what's, more, due to the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom communicate until recent centuries. So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference from the other.

1.Are eastern culture and western culture the same system or different ones on the whole?

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2.How did the Chinese culture and Indian culture start?

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3.Why doesn't the American culture differ from the European one a lot?

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4.How many factors of culture differences are mentioned?

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5.What is the passage mainly about?

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