[填空题]Certain phrases one commonly hears among Americans which (1) to individualism include: "Do your own thing. " "I did it my way. " "You’ll have to decide that for yourself. " "You made your bed, now lie in it. " "If you don’t (2) for yourself, no one else will." "Look out for number one. "
(3) the value they place on individualism is the importance Americans (4) . Americans assume that people need some time to themselves or some time alone to think about things or recover their (5) . Americans have great difficulty understanding foreigners who always want to be with another person, who (6) .
If the parents can afford it, each child will have his or her own bedroom. Having one’s own bedroom, (7) , fixes in a person the notion that she is (8) a place of her own where she can be by herself, and (9) . She will have her clothes, her books and so on. These things will be hers and no one