Listen to two audio clips of “Friendship in China and the West” and write down the missing words or phrases.  

Audio clip 1: 

For Chinese a true friendship ___1____ throughout life changes. Chinese are friends even if they haven’t spoken for 20 years. If you shared something _____2_____, then all your life you are friends. This is the best of Guanxi, the Wide Web that ____3___ Chinese through time and space. Chinese invented the Internet long before Bill Gates was born.

 In North America, even the relationship in which people feel ___4___ and tell each other personal problems may not ___5____ life changes such as moving to another city, graduation from a university, a change in ____6____ circumstances, or marriage. If the people do not see each other regularly, the relationship is likely to die.

Audio clip 2:

   Western people prefer people to be ___________, so they do not feel __________ in a relationship in which one person is giving more and the other is dependent on what is giving. Their friendship is mostly a matter of providing ________ support and spending time together. A westerner will _______ to a friend’s trouble by asking “What do you want to do?” The idea is to help the friend to __________the problem and discover the solution he or she really wants and then to ________ the solution.

  Chinese friends give each other more _______ help. A Chinese will use personal ___________ to help a friend get something hard to obtain such as a job, or an ___________ with a good doctor. Chinese friends give each other money and might help each other out ___________ over a long time.