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 the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.And these two are wellknown 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) languages 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.
| 小题1: | | A．above all | B．on the whole | | C．in all | D．in no case |
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| 小题2: | | A．mountains | B．plains | | C．lakes | D．rivers |
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| 小题4: | | A．developed | B．improved | | C．created | D．protected |
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小题5:．
| A．suddenly | B．quietly |
| C．gradually | D．naturally |
| 小题6: | | A．mixed | B．changed | | C．decided | D．forced |
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| 小题7: | | A．expanded | B．interrupted | | C．influenced | D．shaped |
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| 小题8: | | A．comes | B．belongs | | C．amounts | D．adds |
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| 小题9: | | A．brought up | B．carried out | | C．given out | D．picked up |
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| 小题10: | | A．result | B．sign | | C．base | D．content |
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| 小题11: | | A．Via | B．Except | | C．With | D．Like |
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| 小题12: | | A．affected | B．spread | | C．crossed | D．formed |
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| 小题13: | | A．joined up | B．went up | | C．broke down | D．settled down |
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| 小题14: | | A．come | B．suffer | | C．result | D．differ |
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小题15:．
| A．difference | B．development |
| C．appearance | D．feature |
| 小题16: | | A．properly | B．partly | | C．simply | D．mostly |
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| 小题17: | | A．last | B．count | | C．reduce | D．change |
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| 小题18: | | A．in terms of | B．due to | | C．as to | D．in case of |
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| 小题19: | | A．transform | B．display | | C．communicate | D．distinguish |
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| 小题20: | | A．Furthermore | B．Meanwhile | | C．Therefore | D．However |
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