Listen to the passage and complete the following missing information. Our lives are woven together. As much as I enjoy my own (1) _____________, I no longer imagine I can get through a single day, much less all my life, completely on my own. Even if I am on (2) _______________ in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, living in a house someone else has built, wearing clothes someone else has (3) _______________ from clothwoven by others, using electricity someone else is distributing to my house. (4) _______________ of interdependence is everywhere; we are on this (5) _______________ together.As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that (6) _______________, not interdependence, was everything. “Make your own way”, “Stand on your own two feet” or my mother’s favorite remark when I was face-to-face with (7) _______________ of some action: Now that you’ve made your bed, lie on it! Total independence is a dominant thing in our culture.I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me was to take (8) _______________ for my actions and my choices. But the teaching was (9) _______________ by our cultural imagines. And instead, I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally independent and consequently became very reluctant to ask for help. I would do almost anything not to “be a(10) ____________” and not require any help from anybody.