Culture can affect not just language and customs, but also how people experience the world on surprisingly basic levels.
Researchers, with the help of brain scans, have 1 shocking differences in perception between Westerners and Asians, what they see when they look at a city street, for example, or even how they are 2 of a simple line in a square, according to findings published in a(n) 3 science journal.
In Western countries, culture makes people think of themselves as highly 4 entities. When looking at scenes, Westerners tend to focus more on central objects than on their surroundings. East Asian cultures, however, 5 inter-dependence, When Easterners look at a scene, they tend to focus on the surroundings as well as the object.
Using an experiment 6 two tasks, Dr. Hedden asked subjects to look at a line simply to estimate its length, a task that played to American’s 7. In another, they estimated the line’s length relative to the size of a square, an easier task for the Asian.
The level of brain activity, by 8 blood flow, was then measured by Brain Scanners. The experiment found that although there was no difference in performance, and the tasks were very easy, the levels of activity in the subjects’ brain were 9. For the Americans, areas 10 to attention were more favorable to them, when they worked on the task they tended to find more difficult --- estimating the line’s size relative to the square. The findings are a 11 of more than ten years of previous experimental research into East-West differences.
In one study, for instance researchers 12 people a choice among five pens; four red and one green. Easterners were more likely to choose a red pen, and Westerners were more likely to choose the green one.
Culture does not only make a(n) 13 on how you see the world, but how you choose to understand and internalize it. But such habits can be changed. Some psychological studies suggest that when an Easterner goes to the West or vice versa, habits of thought and perception also begin to change. Such research gives us 14 to how our brain works and holds new promises for us to develop programs to improve our memory techniques and 15 our learning skills.

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4. 4.
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5. 5.
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Rock’n’roll was Black music that broke through to white culture when whites played the Blacks’ songs _______ the same style.

Rock’n’roll was Black music that broke through to white culture when whites played the Blacks’ songs _______ the same style.

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Rock’n’roll was Black music that broke through to white culture when whites played the Blacks’ songs _______ the same style.

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Alia Sabur, from Northport, N. Y., US, went to college at age 10. And four years later, Sabur became a bachelor of science in. Applied Mathematics summa cum laude（以最优等成绩）from Stony Brook University -- the youngest female in US history to do so.  Her education continued at Drexel University, where she earned a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy (哲学博士) in Materials Science and Engineering.
With an unlimited future ahead of her, Sabur directed her first career choice to teaching. "I really enjoy teaching," she said. She was three days short of her 19th birthday in February, 2008, when she was hired to become a professor at Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea.  This distinction made her the youngest college professor in history, according to the Guinness' Book of Worm Records, beating the previous record held by Colin Maclaurin, a student of Isaac Newton, in 1717.
Although she doesn't start until next month, Sabur has taken up teaching math and physics courses at Southern University in New Orleans. Sabur is old enough to teach in the city, but not to join her fellow professors in a bar after work. In Korea, where the drinking age is 20, she might have more luck.  In traditional Korean culture, children are considered to be 1 year old-when they are born, and add a year to their age every New Year instead of their actual birthday, so in Korea Sabur is considered 20.
On top of her unprecedented (空前的) academic achievements, Sabur has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do (跆拳道黑带). She is also a talented clarinet (竖笛) player who has performed with musicians like Lang Lang and Smash Mouth. So is there anything Sabur can't do?
【小题1】We can learn from the passage that Sabur is ________.