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  3. That orientals and occidentals think in different ways is not mere prejudice. Many psychological studies conducted over the past

That orientals and occidentals think in different ways is not mere prejudice. Many psychological studies conducted over the past

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问题     That orientals and occidentals think in different ways is not mere prejudice. Many psychological studies conducted over the past two decades【C1】______Westerners have a more individualistic, analytic and abstract【C2】______life than do East Asians. Several hypotheses have been put forward to【C3】______this. One, that modernization promotes individualism, falls at the first obstacle: Japan, an ultra-modem country whose people have【C4】______a collective outlook. A second, that a higher prevalence of【C5】______disease in a place makes contact with【C6】______more dangerous, and causes groups to turn inward, is hardly better. Europe has had its【C7】______of plagues; probably more than either Japan or Korea.
    That【C8】______Thomas Talhelm of the University of Virginia and his colleagues to【C9】______into a third suggestion: that the crucial difference is【C10】______The West’s staple is wheat; the East’s, rice.【C11】______the mechanization of agriculture a farmer who grew rice had to【C12】______twice as many hours doing so as one who grew wheat To allocate labor【C13】______, especially at times of planting and【C14】______, rice-growing societies as far【C15】______as India, Malaysia and Japan all developed【C16】______labor exchanges which let【C17】______rearrange their farms’ schedules in order to assist each other during these crucial periods.【C18】______until recently, almost everyone alive was a farmer, it is a reasonable hypothesis that such a collective outlook would【C19】______a society’s culture and behavior, and might prove so deep-rooted that even now, when most people earn their living in other ways, it helps to【C20】______their lives.
【C20】
选项 A、highlight
B、complicate
C、define
D、purify
答案C
解析 上文提及这种集体观念在农民间普遍存在，而且“根深蒂固”(deep-rooted)。下文提及“虽然现在大多数人以其他方式谋生，这种观念依然可以______他们的生活”。此细节作者用来证明集体观念的影响力。故选有“对……有很大影响”含义的C项，define常见的释义为“定义”。“这种观念定义他们的生活”即表明这种观念已成为他们区别于西方人的一种特性。
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