TheculturesoftheEastandtheWestreallydistinguishfromeachotheralot.Thisisbecausetheculturesystemsaretwoseparatesystems 21 .

Theoriginoftheeasternculturesismainlyfromtwocountries:ChinaandIndia.Bothofthetwoculturesaregestated(孕育)by 22 .InChinathemotherriveristheYellowRiver 23 theIndianoneistheHinduRiver.Thesetwocultureswere 24 forseveralthousandyearsandformedtheirownstylesThenintheTangDynastyofChinatheChineseculture 25 wentoverseastoJapan 26 intotheJapanesesocietyand 27

theJapaneseculturenowadays.ThoughabitdifferentfromtheChineseoneit 28 tothesamesystem.

Whenthetwomotherriversgavebirthtotheeasterncultureanotherfamousculturewas29ontheMesopotamianPlain(美索不达米亚平原）-theMesopotamianCivilization.ThiscivilizationlaterondevelopedintotheculturesofAncientGreeceandAncientRome.Andthesetwoarewell-knownasthe 30 oftheEuropeanculture. 31 theChineseculturetheEuropeanonealso 32 waters.WhenthecolonistsofEngland 33 inAmericatheirculturewentwiththemovertheAtlanticOcean.SotheAmericanculturedoesn't 34 fromtheEuropeanonealot.

Atthesametimethe 35 ofthelanguagesystemsaddstotheculturaldifferences.IntheEastmostlanguagesbelongtothepictographic(象形文字的)languagewhiletheWesternlanguagesare 36 basedontheLatinsystemforexampletheoneI’musingtowritethispaper

Otherfactorslikehumanracedifference 37 countsaswell.However 38 thefardistanceandthesteepareasbetweentheEastandWestthetwoculturesseldom 39 untilrecentcenturies. 40 theygrewuptotallyintheirownwayswithalmostno-interference（干扰）fromtheother.

21.A.inall B.aboveall C.innocase D.onthewhole

22.A.rivers B.lakes C.mountains D.plains

23.A.or B.for C.while D.when

24.A.improved B.developed C.created D.protected

25.A.gradually B.naturally C.suddenly D.quietly

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