Read the passage about family traditions in Viet Nam, and fill in the blanks with the suitable words.
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Marriage and family are very important in Viet Nam. In the countryside,parents often (1) marriages; divorce remains uncommon, thoughis (2) frequent in cities. In traditional Vietnamese families, rolesare rigid. The man of the house is primarily (3) for the family’seconomic well-being. Older children help to (4) after youngersiblings. Discipline is viewed as a parental duty.
The woman of the house looks (5) her parents, husband andchildren. In rural areas, women also do much agricultural work. Vietnamesewomen live (6) the “four virtues”: hard work, beauty, refined speechand excellent conduct.
The Vietnamese attach great (7) to two traditional familyobligations: 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 whichthere are the 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.
