Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage 3 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. Certain phrases one commonly hears among Americans capture their devotion to individualism: "Do your own thing." "I did it my way." "You’ll have to decide that for yourself." "You made your bed, now 1 in it." "If you don’t look out for yourself, no one else will." "Look out for number one." Closely associated with the value they place on individualism is the importance Americans 2 privacy. Americans assume that people "need some time to themselves" or "some time alone" to 3 things or recover their spent psychological energy. Americans have great 4 understanding foreigners who always want to be with another person, who dislike being alone. If the parents can 5 it, each child will have his or her own bedroom. Having one’s own bedroom, even as an infant, fixes in a person the notion that she 6 a place of her own where she can be by herself, and keep her 7 . She will have her clothes, her toys, her books, and so on. These things will be hers and no one else’s. Americans assume that people will have their private thoughts that might never be shared with anyone. Doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, and others have rules governing "confidentiality" that 8 prevent information about their clients’ personal situations from becoming known to others. Americans’ 9 about privacy can be hard for foreigners to understand. American’s houses, yards, and even their offices can seem open and inviting. Yet in the minds of Americans, there are boundaries that other people are simply not supposed to cross. When those boundaries are crossed, an American’s body will 10 stiffen and his manner will become cool and aloof.