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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.
【C3】
选项 A、explain
B、stimulate
C、prove
D、implement
答案A
解析 作者在下文分析三种假说时，提出“现代化发展促进了个人主义”、“疾病使得当地族群变得内向”和“关键的差异在于……”。三者均试图解释东西方出现不同的原因。故提出假说的目的是为了“解释”，选A项explain。
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