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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