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  3. We are all conditioned by the way we are brought up. Our values are determined by our parents, and in a larger sense, by the cul

We are all conditioned by the way we are brought up. Our values are determined by our parents, and in a larger sense, by the cul

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问题     We are all conditioned by the way we are brought up. Our values are determined by our parents, and in a larger sense, by the culture in which we live. The Chinese, for example, are not accustomed to the drinking of milk, and may actually become sick if they are compelled to drink a glassful of the beverage. Americans, on the other hand, thrive on milk, although they have many taboos of their own.
    Some years ago I gave a dinner party during which I served a delicious hors d’ oeuvre filled with a meat that tasted somewhat like chicken. My guests wondered what the meat was, but 1 refused to tell them until they had eaten their fill. I then explained that they had just dined on the flesh of freshly killed rattlesnake. The reaction was nausea--and in some cases violent vomiting. If I had served rattlesnake to a Chinese, he would doubtless had requested a second helping, for in China the dish is considered a delicacy.
    Another interesting case is the young man I met recently in New York City. An American by birth, he had been removed from his native state of Oregon at the age of six months when his parents went to Japan as missionaries. Orphaned before his first birthday, he was reared by a Japanese family in a remote village. The young man was unmistakably American in appearance, with blond hair and blue eyes. But he had a Japanese style of walking, Japanese facial expressions, and he thought like a Japanese. Though he had learned to speak English fluently, he felt uncomfortable and nut of place in an American city. He soon returned to Japan.
The best title of this passage is ______.
选项 A、Cultural Conditioning
B、Our Parents’ Values
C、American Customs
D、Taboos among the Chinese
答案A
解析 做这样的题目，要特别注意文章的topic sentence(主题句)，它一般在文章的开始或结尾，而本文的头两句就基本上说出了本文的中心思想，所以正确答案为A；B，我们父母的价值观；C美国的习俗；D．中国人中的禁忌；这三个选项均不能概况文章的中心思想，即标题。
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