I have learnt a lot about Chinese life and culture while teaching in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province and found them very interesting．
First, family life is quite   1  in China． In the USA, many young people   2  home after they finish their education and start working． However, in China, it is   3  for people to live with their parents until they get married．   4 , many of my Chinese friends told me that their  5  lived with them and helped take care of them when they were children． It seems that Americans think independence is more important   6  the Chinese think family relationships are more important．
Bargaining is another   7  that I have tried to learn． In the USA, prices are   8  and you can’t ask for a lower price． However in some small Chinese stores and tourist places, you are   9  to bargain． My Chinese friends taught me to ask for 40 percent or 50 percent   10  the original price． If the salesperson doesn’t agree to my price, I should   11  to leave and he might let me come back and sell me the item． It is a skill that you have to   12  if you live in China．
Tipping hasn’t been easier to   13 ． In the USA, many people in the service   14  want to get   15  money for serving customers． Tipping is not a part of Chinese culture．   16  I tried to tip a taxi driver． He looked a little   17  and refused to take the money．
In dinners, perhaps what surprises an American visitor most is that some of the Chinese hosts like to put food into the plates of their   18 ． Actually, this is a   19  of true friendship and politeness． My Chinese friend told me if I didn’t want to eat it, I should just   20  the food in the plate．

Valentine’s Day is a popular festival of love and romance. There are      legends associated with the festival along with the belief that birds began to mate from this day. Historians trace (追蹤)its      to an ancient Roman festival. It is said that in ancient Rome, people      a holiday on February 14th to honor Juno—the Queen of Roman Gods and Goddesses. On the following day, February 15th，the festival of Lupercalia was celebrated to honor the Roman God of Agriculture.
An interesting      was followed on the festival of Lupercalia to bring together young boys and girls who otherwise were strictly      . On the eve of the festival, names of young Roman girls were written on a slip of paper and placed into jars. Each young man      a girl's name from the jar and was paired with the girl during the festival. Sometimes the      lasted for a year until next year's celebration. Quite often，the couple would fall in love with each other and       marry. The custom lasted for a long time until people felt that it was un-Christian and that mates should be chosen by sight, not      .
The pairing of young boys and girls set the mood of the Valentine's Day Festival as we know today. But it was      due to the efforts and daring of a priest St Valentine that the festival got its       and clearer meaning. The story goes that Emperor Claudius II of Rome found it      to get soldiers and felt the reason why men did not join the      was that they did not wish to leave their wives and families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. St Valentine challenged Claudius's      order and secretly married couples. When his disobedience was      ，Valentine was put to death on February 14, around 270 AD. After his death Valentine was named a saint.

England was one of the first countries to set aside a day to recognize mothers．In the eighteenth century,      many people worked as household servants for the     , "Mothering Sunday" was _    for them to return home to be with their mothers．Though this      stopped when the Industrial Revolution altered the working and living patterns of people, one     for mothers was established as a holiday in the twentieth century．
In the United States, Mother's Day did not become a（n）       holiday until 1915．Its establishment was      due to the perseverance and love of one     , Anna Jarvis．Anna's mother had provided strength and support as the family     their home in West Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania     her father served as a minister．
When Mrs Jarvis died on May 5, 1905, Anna was determined to       her．She asked a minister at the church in West Virginia to give a sermon（布道）     memory of her mother．
On the same Sunday in Philadelphia, ministers there honoured Mrs.Jarvis and all mothers with a (n)     Mother's Day service．Anna Jarvis began writing to congressmen, asking them to       a day to honour mothers. In 1910, the governor of West Virginia proclaimed(宣布) the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day and a year later every state       it．
On Mother' s Day morning some American children      the tradition of serving their mothers breakfast in bed．Other children will give their mothers      which they have made themselves or bought in     ．Adults give their mothers red carnations, the official Mother's Day flower．If their mothers     , they may bring white carnations to their grave（墳?zāi)梗﹕ites．This is the busiest day of the year for American       ．On the special day, family members do not want Mom to cook dinner!

The western world has always been divided into two types of people—the cool and the uncool. It is a division that     in school. The cool kids are good at     .They are        with the opposite sex .They are good-looking and people want to     their style. They can do their homework but they don’t make a big effort. That would        be cool.
The uncool kids are in the other corner of the playground. They are very bright ,but they don’t have great     skills and they are        at sports .When they are not programming computers or doing calculus（微積分）in their heads ,they are reading comic books and watching shows like the “X Files” .They are      as the geeks.
Here’s the news. The geeks are    .Make friends with them now or they will put virus in your computer and      your maths homework to ruin. Geeks might not be popular at school, yet they do pass their examinations ,and they might not be too popular at university, but        good degrees.
The most important      of the 21st century ,computers and IT, has been at least partly created by geeks .Geek heroes like Bill Gates      others to follow their example .Being a geek is a way of earning good money .And the creation of the Internet gave them a     of their own to work and play in ,making them a global       .Besides ,the effect of the geeks         popular culture has started a new trend（趨勢(shì)）.It is now cool to be      .Geek culture is becoming an important part of general popular culture ,in which what you know is more important than        you look like.
But there are also    . Geeks were often bullied or laughed at in school. Now a geek may be your boss .Perhaps it is time for    .

Laziness is a state of inaction. It is something that you do, not something that you are. Being lazy means you have no         to do anything. This is obvious but the mistake that many people make is          themselves as someone who is lazy.
Lazy people are often seen as useless.      , are they really being lazy or are they acting lazy? There is a huge difference between saying you are lazy sometimes and you are a lazy person. One is suggesting that your laziness is       while the other suggests that it’s permanent. This is the myth of laziness. People who are lazy aren’t lazy; they      are people who are temporarily acting that way.
So what causes a person to be inactive? The answer is a lack of goals. If you give someone a good enough     to do something, he will do it. People who don’t seem to do anything just haven’t found a good enough reason to do something. Lazy students don’t study because they don’t see the        in studying. For example, if you are too lazy to clean out the garage, would someone        a gun to your head help you take action? The reason can be positive or negative     it’s strong enough to induce(引起) action.
To motivate someone who is lazy, what you need to do is to help him find enough     to work towards a certain goal.

Over the past few decades, more and more countries have opened up the markets, increasingly transforming the world economy into one free-flowing global market. The question is：Is economic globalization       for all?
According to the World Bank, one of its chief supporters, economic globalization has helped reduce       in a large number of developing countries. It quotes one study that shows increased wealth       to improved education and longer life in twenty-four developing countries as a result of integration (融合) of local economies into the world economy. Home to some three billion people, these twenty-four countries have seen incomes       at an average rate of five percent—compared to two percent in developed countries.
Those who       globalization claim that economies in developing countries will benefit from new opportunities for small and home-based businesses.      , small farmers in Brazil who produce nuts that would originally have sold only in       open-air markets can now promote their goods worldwide by the Internet.
Critics take a different view, believing that economic globalization is actually       the gap between the rich and poor. A study carried out by the U.N.-sponsored World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization shows that only a few developing countries have actually       from integration into the world economy and that the poor, the uneducated, unskilled workers, and native peoples have been left behind.      , they maintain that globalization may eventually threaten emerging businesses. For example, Indian craftsmen who currently seem to benefit from globalization because they are able to       their products may soon face fierce competition that could put them out of      . When large-scale manufacturers start to produce the same goods, or when superstores like Wal-Mart move in, these small businesses will not be able to       and will be crowded out.
One thing is certain about globalization—there is no      . Advances in technology combined with more open policies have already created an interconnected world. The       now is finding a way to create a kind of globalization that works for the benefit of all.                            

Every country has its own culture.
Even though each country uses doors. Doors many have_    __functions and purposes which lead to ___  _ differences.
When I first came to America, I noticed that a public building had two different__  ___ and they had distinct(不同的) functions. You have to push the door with the word “PUSH” to go out of the building and to pull the door with the word “PULL” to_   ____the building. This was new to me, because we use the ___  __ door in south Korea. For quite a few times I failed to go out of a shopping centre and was embarrassed.
The way of using school bus doors was also ____  __ to me .I used to take the school bus to classes. The school decided that when the driver opened both the front and back doors, ___    _who were getting off the bus should get off first, and students who were getting on should get on __   _ . In South Korea, we do not need to wait for people to get off. One morning, I hurried to the bus, and when the bus doors opened, I___   ____tried to get on the school bus through the front door. All the students around looked at me, I was totally_     _,and my face went red.

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（孕育） 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 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 (see the picture below) 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 ______ from the other.

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Language is the most astonishing behavior in the animal kingdom. It is the species-typical behavior that sets humans completely   36  from all other animals. Language is a means of   37  , but it is much more than that. Many animals can   38  . The dance of the honeybee communicates the location of flowers   39  other members of the hive (蜂群). But human language permits communication about anything,   40  things like unicorns (獨(dú)角獸) that have never existed. The key   41  in the fact that different words can be   42  together in different ways, according to   43  to communicate different meanings.
Language is the most important learning we do. Nothing can   44  humans so much as our ability to communicate abstract   45 , whether about the university, the mind, love, dreams, or ordering a drink. It is an extremely complex   46  that we take for granted. Indeed, we are not aware of most   47  of our speech and understanding. Consider what happens when one person is speaking to   48  . The speaker has to translate thoughts into  49  language. Brain imaging studies suggest that the time from thoughts to the   50  of speech is extremely fast. Only 0.04 seconds! The listener must hear the sounds to   51   what the speaker means. He must use the sounds of speech to   52  the spoken words, understand the pattern of   53  of the words (sentences), and finally   54  the meaning. This takes somewhat longer, a minimum of about 0.5 seconds. But once started, it is of course a(n)    55  process.

Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his diary; now, a teenager with  26 problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog（博客）．In many ways, a diary and a blog are very  27 ．But what makes blogging different from writing in a（n） 28 diary?
The biggest difference is that a blog is much more   29  than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of   30  that he does not want to   31 with others.
It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog   32 a diary will probably write nearly the same information.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her   33 . She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test.  34 I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but   35 in my dairy. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was  36 that my sister might read it.
The biggest   37  with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something   38 about him in my diary, he would never know. 39  ,  if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might   40 her blog and get angry.
There are also   41  to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “ Nobody cares about me”, because no one would   42 about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would quickly   43  and tell her how much they  44  her. Blogs help people   45 in contact with their friends and know what the people around them are doing.