VII. Read the passage about family traditions in Vietnam, and fill in the
blanks with the suitable words.
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Marriage and family are very important in Vietnam. In countryside, parents
often (1)
marriages; divorce remains uncommon, but is (2)
frequent in cities. In traditional Vietnamese families, roles are
for the family's
rigid. The man of the house is primarily (3)
after younger
economic well-being. Older children help to (4)
siblings. Discipline is viewed as a parental duty.
her parents, husband and
The woman of the house looks (5)
children. In rural areas, women also do much agricultural work. Vietnamese
women live (6)
the "four virtues": hard work, beauty, refined
speech and excellent conduct.
The Vietnamese attach great (7)
to two traditional family
obligations: to care for their parents in their old age and to worship them after
death. In each Vietnamese family, (8).
is at least one altar on which
there are pictures of their ancestors. Family members worship their ancestors
(9) _________they think parents after death will go to live in another world
and this altar is the place where the ancestors' souls live in. As a result, every day
Vietnamese people lay flowers or sometimes fruits on the altar for the belief that
those (10).
will enjoy them.