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

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

When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was ______ on the Mesopotamian Plain ---- the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well-known ______ the base of the European culture. Like the Chinese culture, the European one also ______ waters. When the colonists(殖民者) 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 difference of the language systems _______ the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic 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 like human race difference counts as well. But what’s more, ______ 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 _____ with the other.

1.A. connectedB. separateC. ancientD. remote

2.A. preservationB. developmentC. resourceD. origin

3.A. ifB. untilC. whileD. as

4.A. stylesB. habitsC. waysD. means

5.A. hurriedlyB. graduallyC. unfortunatelyD. suddenly

6.A. madeB. emergedC. mixedD. applied

7.A. cultureB. nationC. influenceD. system

8.A. brought upB. brought outC. brought aboutD. brought along

9.A. afterB. asC. forD. of

10.A. crossedB. drunkC. swamD. plunged

11.A. touched down B. put downC. got downD. settled down

12.A. evolveB. judgeC. distinguishD. rise

13.A. adds to B. results to C. turns toD. takes to

14.A. as toB. as forC. as a result of D. in spite of

15.A. impact B. difference C. connectionD. familiarity

 

1.B

2.D

3.C

4.A

5.B

6.C

7.D

8.A

9.B

10.A

11.D

12.C

13.A

14.C

15.C

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试题分析:文章介绍东西方文化的起源和发展和它们之间的差异。

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In recent years, outdoor movie screenings have come up in parks, vacant lots and shopping malls around the nation. On average, about 1,000 people attend each movie night. It attracts a lot of young professionals, young workers and residents nearby. For some, the outdoor movies bring back the memories of the drive­in theaters of their youths. But for the majorities, they think it is comparable to the atmosphere of drive­ins, as they can bring friends, food, good wine, and watch the movie together.

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1.In the first paragraph, the author tries to tell us ________.

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“Another bad day at school?” my father asked as I came into the room.

“How could you tell? I didn't shut the door heavily or anything,” I replied. Over the past two months I had either done this or thrown my backpack across the room every time I came home from school. Papa thinks it has something to do with moving to a new house.

“I know this move has been hard on you. Leaving your friends and cousins behind is tough,” Papa said, as he put his arm around my shoulder. “What you must remember is that, with a lot of hard work and some time, you will make new friends.”

“You don't know how hard it is. This year my baseball team would have won the championship. They won't even give me a chance to pitch (投球) here. All I get to play is right field, and that's the worst!”

Papa turned toward me. “Things will get better, I promise you. Let me ask you, do you know why you were named David Lorenzo?”

“Yes, your name is David and grandfather's name is Lorenzo.”

“Very good, and what makes your grandfather so important?”

“He was the first in the family to come to this country and all that,” I answered.

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I looked down at my feet, ashamed at my behavior. “No. That must have been hard,” I said sheepishly.

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All I could say was, “Okay.” Then I asked, “What should I do now?”

Laughing, Papa said, “How about you pitch a few to me? You need some work.”

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