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Can we generate the new cultural attitudes required by our technological vir

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问题     Can we generate the new cultural attitudes required by our technological virtuosity? History is not very reassuring here. It has taken centuries to learn how to live【B1】______ in the family, the tribe, the city, the state, and the nation. Each new【B2】______of human sensitivity and loyalty has taken generations to become firmly【B3】______in the human mind. And now we are forced into a quantum leap from the mutual suspicion and 【B4】______that have marked the past relations between peoples in a world in which 【B5】______respect and comprehension are necessary.
    Even events of recent decades provide little basis for【B6】______. Increasing physical proximity has brought no millennium in human relations. If anything, it has appeared to【B7】______the divisions among people rather than to create a broader intimacy. Every new【B8】______in physical distance has made us more painfully aware of the psychic distance that divides people and has increased alarm over real or imagined differences. If today people occasionally choke on what seem to be indigestible differences between rich and poor, male and female, specialist and non-specialist within cultures, what will happen tomorrow when people must assimilate and cope with still greater contrasts in life styles?【B9】______
    Time and space have long cushioned intercultural encounters, confining them to touristic exchanges. But this insulation is rapidly wearing thin.【B10】______. There we will be surrounded by foreigners for long periods of time, working with others in the closest possible relationships.【B11】______ [br] 【B8】
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答案 reduction
解析 空前的形容词new和空后的in表明，本空应填一名词。reduction意为“减小，缩小”。
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