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Read the text. Choose from choices the one which best fits each space (1-5). There are two choices you do not need to choose. How the English dress?Kate Fox, an anthropologist, spent twelve years _____(1) of English culture in order to try to discover the ‘defining characteristics of Englishness’.A rule of behavior I had discovered was that it is very important for the English not to take themselves too seriously, ______(2) at themselves. However, it is well known that most teenagers tend to take themselves a bit too seriously. Would a ‘tribe’ of young people be able to laugh at the way they dress? I decided to find out, and went straight to a group whose identity is very closely linked to the way ____(3), the Goths. The Goths, ____(4) , certainly look as if they are taking themselves seriously. But when I got into conversation with them, I discovered to my surprise that they too had a sense of humor. I was chatting at a bus stop to a Goth ____(5) – with a white face, deep purple lipstick, and spiky black hair. I saw that he was also wearing a T-shirt with ‘Goth’ printed on it in large letters. ‘Why are you wearing that’ I asked. ‘It’s in case you don’t realize that I’m a Goth,’ he answered, pretending to be serious. We both looked at his highly conspicuous clothes, and burst out laughing