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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 pattems in ___1____

material things. Culture is compose of nonmaterial culture --- ____2____

abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs and institutional

arrangements - and material culture - physical object like ____3____

cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. In sum, culture reflects

both the ideas we share or everything we make. In ordinary ____4____

speech, a person of culture is the individual can speak another ____5____

language - the person who is unfamiliar with the arts, music, ____6____

literature, philosophy, or history. But to sociologists, to be

human is to be cultured, because of culture is the common world ___7____

of experience we share with other members of our group.

Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a kind ____8____

of map for relating to others. Consider how you fred your way

about social life. How do you know how to act in a classroom,

or a department store, or toward a person who smiles or laugh ____9____

at you? Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, ____10____

ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations.

Therefore, if we know a person's culture, we can understand

and even predict a good deal of his behavior.

参考答案及解析　　

参考答案及解析:

1. include -> including

2. compose -> composed / comprised

此出的意思是“由…组成”，固定搭配有be composed / comprised of，be made up of，consist of。

3. object -> objects

　　Object是可是名词，一般说来可数名词以单数形式出现时要有不定代词或冠词修饰，而在此没有任何冠词，而且上下文对应的均使用了复数形式，所以应该把object改为复数。

4. or -> and

此处是固定搭配both…and…。

5. individual后加who / that

　　这句话出现了两个谓语动词，在英语中不符合语法规范。从上下文可以看出individual后面的部分是修饰individual的定语从句，缺少了引导词，所以应该加上who或that。

6. unfamiliar -> familiar

根据常识，“文化人”应该是“熟悉艺术、音乐…”的人，因此把否定改为肯定。

7. of -> /

表示原因时，because后跟从句，because of后跟名词性质的词或词组。此处是从句，所以把of去掉。

8. essentially -> essential

be后面的表语不能用副词。

9. laugh -> laughs

　　此处的smile和laugh是并列成分，作定语从句修饰person，又因为先行词person是单数，所以从句的谓语也要用单数。

10. by -> with

此处是固定搭配supply sb with sth