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Passage 4中国是一个疆域辽阔、人口众多的多民族的统一国家。它立国的地理环境对中国文化的形成发展起到了至关重要的作用。Multi-national multi-ethnic, multi-racial united unified unitary unification underlying//underpinning the founding of the countryEthnic group nationality ethnic minorityChina is a multi-ethnic unified//unitary country with a vast territory and a large population, of which geographic surrounding//environment has played a crucial role in the formation and development of Chinese//its culture. affiliated attached high school中国位于东亚大陆，处于一个相对隔绝封闭的地理环境中：北部是辽阔的大漠与草原，西部是浩瀚的戈壁沙漠和青藏高原，西南部是云贵山地和莽莽雨林，东部和东南部的平原与丘陵地带则面向大洋。Be located be situated=lie in enclosed isolated boundlessLocated//Situated in the eastern Asian continent, it lies in a relatively enclosed setting//environment. In the north are vast deserts and grasslands, in the west endless//boundless Gobi deserts and Qinghai-Tibetan Plateaus, in the south-west Yunnan-Guizhou Mountains and luxuriant//dense rain-forests, and in the east and south-east plains and hilly lands facing the oceans.facesth face the music be faced with这种相对封闭的地理环境为中国古代文化相对独立的发展提供了自然条件。This distinctive environment provided (favorable) natural conditions for the relatively separate//independent development of ancient Chinese culture.所以在相当长的一段时间里，中国文化与外来文化的武力冲撞较少。这对中国文化形成一个历史悠久又自成体系，具有鲜明的地域特征且具有一定的稳定性的文化系统，有着重要的作用。Therefore, there were less//relatively few force//armed conflicts among the Chinese culture and (the) alien ones for a fairly long period of time, which exerted important impacts on the constitution of a time-honored and self-containing cultural system with striking regional features and definite stability in the Chinese culture.中国内部的地理环境西高东低，东西走向的几条大河较为均匀地分布于其间，构成了辽河、黄河、长江、珠江几个流域。The (inner) terrain of China is high in the west and low in the east. Several west-east running large rivers are evenly distributed, forming//creating the valleys of the Liaohe River, the Yellow River, the Changjiang River, and the Pearl River. heart-throb流域内纵横其间的支流为农业的发展和交通提供了有利的自然条件，也促成了区域