Which of the following statements is true according to the author?
A.Difficulty results in culture shock.
B.A typical symptom of culture shock is confusion.
C.Culture shock is the explanation of anxiety.
D.Cuhure shock happens to foreign students only.
Which one of the following may not be a symptom of culture shock?
A.You don't know how to express your gratitude.
B.You don't know how to greet other people.
C.You suddenly forget what a word means.
D.You don't understand why a foreigner shrugs.
Culture shock is an occupational disease (职业病) for people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad.
Culture shock is caused by the anxiety that results from losing all familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse. Those signs are as following: How to shake hands and what to say when meeting people, when and how to give tips, how to make purchases, when to accept and refuse invitations, when to take statements seriously and when not. These signs, which may be words, gestures, facial expressions, or customs, are acquired by all of us in the course of growing up and as much a part of our culture as the language we speak or the beliefs we accept. All of us depend on hundreds of these signs for the peace of our mind and day-to-day efficiency, but we do not carry most at the level of conscious awareness.
Now when an individual enters a strange culture, all or most of these familiar signs are removed. No matter how broadminded or full of good will you may be, a series of supports have been knocked from under you, followed by a feeling of frustration. When suffering from culture shock people first reject the environment which causes discomfort. The ways of the host country are bad Because they make us feel bad. When foreigners on a strange land get together to complain about the host country and its people, you can be sure that they are suffering from culture shock.
According to the passage, culture shock is______.
A.an occupational disease of foreign people
B.may lead to very serious symptoms
C.actually not a disease
D.incurable
根据以下内容回答题:
“CuIture shock”occurS as result of total immersion in a new culture.It happens to“peo-Dle who haye been suddenly transplanted abroad.”Newcomers may be anxious because they do not speak the language,know the customs,or understand people’s behavior. in daily life.The visitor finds that“yes may not always mean“yes”,that friendliness does not necessarily mean friendship,or that statements that appear to be serious are really intended as jokes.The for-eigner may be unsure as to when to shake hands,when to start conversations,or how to approach a stmnger.The notion of“culture shock”helps explain feelings of bewilderment(困惑)and disorientation.Language problems do not account for all the frustrations(挫败)that people feel.When one is deprived of everything that was once familiar,such as understanding a transportation system,knowing how to register for university classes,Ot knowing how to make friends,difficulties in coping with the new society may arise. “…when an individual enters a strange cuhure,he or she is like fish out of water.”New-comers feel at times that they do not belong to and feel alienated from the native members of thecuhure.When this happens visitors may want t0·reject everything about the new environment and may glorify and exaggerate(夸大)the positive aspects of their own culture.Conversely visitors may scorn their native country by rejecting its values and instead choosing to identify with(if only temporarily)the value of the new country.This may occur as an attempt to over—identify with the new culture in order to be accepted by the people in it.
The expression“he or she is like fish out of water”suggests__________ .
A.people away from their cultures can hardly survive in a new culture
B.a fish can not survive without water
C.people away from their culture experience mental isolation
D.people away from their culture has difficulties in new environment
A.He is most likely to refuse to absorb the strange environment at first.
B.He is ready to accept the change and adapt himself to the new environment.
C.Although he takes the culture difference for granted, he still doesn't know how to do with it.
D.He may begin to hate the people or things around him.
A.巧妙 事在为人 B.形象 兼容并蓄
C.生动 人乡随俗 D.夸张 顺其自然