填空题 Fill in the numbered blanks with proper words. Among the 20 expressions given, only 15 should be used. Make sure the words come in correct forms in terms of both grammar and meaning. know despite significant paragraph prescribe component class common eminent dialect use ridiculous ethic identity melt acknowledge well kitchen list reasonable The concept of culture has been defined many times, and although no definition has achieved universal acceptance, most of the definitions include three central ideas; that culture is passed on from generation to generation, that a culture represents a ready-made 1for living and for making day-to-day decisions, and, finally, that the 2of a culture are accepted by those in the culture as good, and true, and not to be questioned. The eminent anthropologist George Murdock has 3seventy-three items that characterize every 4culture, past and present. The list begins with Age-grading and Athletic sports, runs to Weaning and Weather Control, and includes on the way such items as Calendar, Fire-making, Property Rights, and Tool-making. I would submit that even the most extreme advocate of a culture of poverty viewpoint would readily 5that, with respect to almost all of these items, every American, beyond the first generation immigrant, regardless of race or class, is a member of a 6culture. We all share pretty much the same sports. Maybe poor kids don"t know how to play polo, and rich kids don"t spend time with stickball, but we all know baseball, and football, and basketball. 7some misguided efforts to raise minor 8to the status of separate tongues, we all, in fact, share the same language. There may be differences in diction and usage, but it would be ridiculous to say that all Americans don"t speak English. We have the calendar, the law, and large numbers of other cultural items in common. It may 9be true that on a few of the seventy-three items there are minor variations between classes, but these kinds of things are really slight variations on a common theme. There are other items that show variability, not in relation to class, but in relation to religion and 10background—funeral customs and cooking, for example. But if there is one place in America where the 11pot is a reality, it is on the 12stove, in the course of one month, half the readers of this sentence have probably eaten pizza, hot pastrami, and chow mein. Specific differences that might be 13as signs of separate cultural identity are relatively 14within the general unity of American life; they are cultural commas and semicolons in the 15and pages of American life.