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Globalization-is it holy crap?
Globalization can somehow be defined（1）____harmonization, homogenization or integration of the countries and（2）____. Functionally, it can be seen as a process of gradually（3）____ interaction and integration of economies and societies around the world. The growing economic interdependence is the most crucial （4）____ force of globalization. In the first（5）____, it is the economic dimension of globalization which（6）____both scholars' and（7）____attention. Transnational corporations (TNCs) and large financial institutions in the mature and developed industrial economies （8）____a proactive role（9）____ devising and creating global networks in economic and financial areas. However, sociologist, anthropologist and historian state that the non-economic dimension is（10）____equally important. For example, Alexander the Great did not only militarily conquer Persia（11）____introduced western （12）____, philosophy and scientific technology（13）____ the east.（14）____he noticed that what he thought the barbarian east had a more complex governing system even than his own. Today, though most popular definitions of globalization are still focusing more（15）____ the economic dimension; the non-economic dimension gets more and more attention in almost every society of the world. There are tons of studies（16）____ this topic. Yet, globalization as a phenomenon, in reality, is still in its （17）____.
According to <Harvey, a well-known scholar, Globalization is the manifestation of the changing experience of time and space, in which（18）____economic and social processes has experientially（19）____the globe, so that distance and time no longer appear（20）____ major constraints on the organization of human activities.
Giddens, another scholar argues that "Globalization is the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa."
1.[A]as [B]to be [C]like [D]of
2. [A]economy [B]economics [C]economic [D]economies
3. [A]revolving [B]evolving [C]resolving [D]solving
4. [A]enhancing [B]moving [C]driving [D]motivating
5. [A]case [B]place [C]area [D]space
6. [A]catches [B]influences [C]has &n