[单项选择]In our culture, we are accustomed to sophisticated prescription drugs containing a _____ of chemical ingredients.
A. plenty
B. variety

[单项选择]In our culture and in our eyes success all too often means simply {{U}}outdoing{{/U}} other people by virtue of achievement judged by some single scale—income or honors—and coming out at "the top".
A. outfitting
B. outbidding
C. outraging
D. outshining

[单项选择]We are accustomed to seeing ourselves ______.
A. as reflected in water
B. what we look like to others
C. in photographs
D. in a True Mirror

[单项选择]When our imports ________ our exports, we say we have a favorable trade balance; however, when our imports and exports are the other way round we say we have an unfavorable trade balance.
A. fall short
B. fall short of
C. run out of
D. are lack of

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Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal, but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one’s side, or that in Italy and some Latin-American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell. Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm’s length away from others，Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch, which makes Americans uncomfortable.
Our linguistic (语言上的) and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us frien
A. stand still
B. jump aside
C. step forward
D. draw back

[单项选择]Our statistics show that we consume all that we are capable of producing
A. waste
B. buy
C. use
D. sell

[单项选择] —Are we supposed to take off our shoes before we enter 　　—No, you .

[单项选择]--Are we supposed to take off our shoes before we enter --No, you ______.