1、Culture refers to the social heritage of a people- the learned patterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize a population or society, include the expression of these patterns in material things.1.__________ Culture is compose of nonmaterial — culture abstract creations 2._________
2、 like values, beliefs, customs, and institutional arrangements — and material culture — physical object like cooking spots ,computers and bathtubs.3.__________ In sum, culture reflects both the ideas we share or everything we make.4.__________ In ordinary speech, a person of culture is the indi
3、vidual can speak 5.__________ another language- the person who is unfamiliar with the arts, 6.__________ music, literature, philosophy, or history. But to sociologists, to be human is to be cultured, because of culture is the common world of experience. 7.__________ Culture is essentially to o
4、ur humanness. 8.___________ How do you know how to act in a classroom, or a department store, or toward a person who smiles or laugh at you? 9.___________ Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, 10.__________ ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations. (7) Word
5、 came from California of a new weapon in the war on household pests. Two scientists work for a firm in California developed 1.__________ a new method to eliminate insects with using dangerous chemicals.2.__________ The new weapon—hot air.The basic idea is that insect pests can adjust to tem
6、perature much above normal.3.__________ In laboratory experiments,cockroaches and termites can’t survive much more than a quarter of hour at 100 degrees 4.__________ Fahrenheit or about fifty degrees centigrade. The new method involves covering a house with a huge tent,and fill it with air
7、 heated to 5.__________ around 65 degrees centigrade. Hot air is forced in with fans and the tent keeps the heat inside the house. Although termites try to escape by hiding in wood beams,6.__________ the heat treatment must be continued by four to six hours. 7.__________ But when it's all ov
8、er and the insects are dead, there are no toxic residues to danger humans or pets,and no 8.__________ funny smells.Scientists claim that there's no danger of fire too.9._________ Since very few household, materials will burn at 65 degrees centigrade. In fact, wood is prepared for construction u
9、se by drying in the ovens at 100 degrees centigrade, that is substantially hotter. 10._________ 参考答案: 1. work → working 2. with → without 3. can adjust → can not adjust 4. hour → an hour 5. fill → filling 6. Although → Since 7. by → for 8. danger → endanger 9. too → either 10. that → which






