I. Directions: Fill in each of the blanks with an appropriate word from the box. as about matter dependent those follow excess result relevant distinctive The Chinese way of eating is characterized by the ideas and beliefs about food, which actively affect the ways in which food is prepared and taken. The overriding ( 最重要的 ) idea 1)_____food in China is that the kind and the amount of food one takes is 2)_____ to one's health. Food not only affects health as a(n) 3) ______of general principle, the selection of the right food at any particular time must also be 4) ______upon one's health condition at that time. Food, therefore, is also medicine. The regulation of diet as a disease prevention or cure is certainly the same case as in the West 5) _______it is in China . Common Western examples are the diet for arthritis ( 关节炎 ) and the recent organic food craze ( 绿色食品热 ) . But the Chinese case is 6) ________because of its underlying principles. The bodily functions, in the Chinese view, 7)______ the basic yin-yang principles. Many foods are also classifiable into those that possess the yin quality and 8) ________the yang quality. When yin and yang forces in the body are not balanced, problems 9) ______. Proper amounts of food of one kind or the other may then be administered (i.e. eaten) to counterbalance the yin and yang disequilibrium ( 不均衡 ). If the body is normal, overeating of one kind of food would result in a(n) 10) ______of that force in the body, causing diseases.