Read the following passage and choose the best option for each numbered blank.
A motorbike ride or a walk around the city creates an opportunity to adjust to the ___(1)___, yet natural flow of the narrowed-street traffic.
I've learned to not take the excessive honking of motorbikes and cars personally. In the US, it ___(2)___ rude to beep your horn unless one truly needs to, but here in Hanoi, it seems that beeping is necessary and acts as a safety precaution while driving.
I still ___(3)___ my fists each time I cross the street because of the never-ending waves of motorbikes coming from all directions.
Hanoi delights me in its ability to offer both the old and the new. On the one hand, Hanoi still holds on to traditional Vietnamese ways of life-its Vietnamese cuisine, family values, and historic Buddhist ___(4)___. These things are what make Hanoi so ___(5)___.