Directions:In this section, you will hear a passage 3
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 with the exact words you have just heard.
Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you
have written. Our lives are woven together. As much as I
enjoy my own 1 , I no longer imagine I
can 2 a single day, much less all my
life, completely on my own. Even if I am on 3
in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, living
in a house someone else has built, wearing clothes someone else has sewn from
cloth woven by others, using 4 someone
else is distributing to my house. 5 of
interdependence is everywhere. We are on this 6
together. As I was growing up, I remember being
carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything. "Make
your own way," " 7 ," or my mother’s
favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action: "Now
that you’ve made your bed, lie in it!" Total independence is a 8 theme in our culture. I imagine that what my
parents were trying to teach me was to 9 for my actions and my choices. But the teaching was shaped by our cultural
images, and instead I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally
"independent" and 10 became very
reluctant to ask for help. I would do almost anything not to be a burden, and
not require any help from anybody.