Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with the words you hear. Gift-giving Today gift giving is __1__ across all cultures around the world, from celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, offering good luck, best wishes for getting well, showing love and affection, or just saying thanks. Gifts are given to family members, friends, those we work with and even __2__ who receive gifts of all different types. There are large industries __3__ to creating and selling gifts that allow people even in the busiest of times to find the right type of present to give someone for many different reasons and __4__. From scientific and historical origins, we can see that gifting giving grew to be firmly __5__ across all nations and societies. The science and history of the custom serves only to __6__ on one level. That fact that gift-giving was widely __7___ across ancient and diverse cultures, tribes, religions, languages and countries means that the act of giving is much more __8__ to the human condition. To go deeper then, we need to see giving as an __9__ . To understand more, we have to look to philosophy. For a richer ___10__ , we need to explore the Joy of Giving.