填空题

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Culture is passed on from one generation to the next through communication. Thus, culture refers to beliefs in a (36) being, to attitudes toward success and happiness, and to the values placed on friendship, love, family, or money, since these are (37) through communication.
Parents, (38) groups, schools, religious institutions, and government (39) are the main teachers of culture. One new (40) for spreading culture is the Internet. Because the Internet, although world wide, is so (41) by the United States and by the English language and idiom, "Some countries," notes one media watcher, "already unhappy with the (42) of American culture are worried that their cultures will be further (43) by an American dominance in cyberspace".
A different process of learning culture is acculturation(文化互渗), (44) . Through acculturation, your original or native culture is modified through direct contact with a new and different culture. For example, when immigrants settle in the United States, the host country, their own culture becomes influenced by the host culture. Gradually, the values, ways of behaving, and beliefs of the host culture become more and more a part of the immigrants’ culture. (45) Generally, however, the culture of the immigrant changes more. The reasons for this are that the host country’s members far outnumber the immigrant group, (46)