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Section C
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 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.
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡1上作答。
Certain phrasesone commonly hears among Americans capture their devotion to individualism:"Do your own thing." "I did it my way." "You'll haveto decide that for yourself." "You made your bed, now (36) _______ init." "If you don't look out for yourself, no one else will.""Look out for number one."
Closely (37)_______ with the value they place on individualism is the importance Americans(38) _______ to privacy. Americans assume that people "need some time tothemselves" or "some time alone" to think about things orrecover their (39) _______ psychological energy. Americans have great (40)_______ understanding foreigners who always want to be with another person, who(41) _______ being alone.
If the parents can(42) _______ it, each child will have his or her own bedroom. Having one's ownbedroom, even as an (43) _______, fixes in a person the notion that (44)_____________________. She will have her clothes, her toys, her books, and soon. These things will be hers and no one else's.
Americans assumethat (45) _____________________. Doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, and othershave rules governing "confidentiality" that are intended to preventinformation about their clients' personal situations from becoming known toothers.
Americans'attitudes about privacy can be hard for foreigners to understand. (46)_____________________. When those boundaries arc crossed, an American's bodywill visibly stiffen and his manner will become cool and aloof.
