Culture shock might be called an occupational disease of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad. Like most ailments,

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问题     Culture shock might be called an occupational disease of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad. Like most ailments, it has its own (1)_____ and cure.
    Culture shock is (2)_____ by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse. Those signs or cues include the thousand and one (3)_____ in which we orient ourselves to the (4)_____ of daily life: when to shake hands and what to say when we meet people, when and how to give tips, how to (5)_____ purchases, when to accept and when to refuse invitations, when to take statement seriously and when not. These cues, (6)_____ may be words, gestures, facial (7)_____ customs, or norms, are (8)_____ by all of us in the course of growing up and are as much a (9)_____ of our culture as the language we speak or the beliefs we accept. All of us (10)_____ for our peace of mind and our efficiency on hundreds of these cues, (11)_____ of which we do not carry on the (12)_____ of conscious awareness.
    Now when an individual (13)_____ a strange culture, all or most of these familiar cues are removed. He or she is like a fish out of water. No matter how broad-minded or (14)_____ of goodwill you may be, a series of props have been (15)_____ under you, followed by a feeling of frustration and (16)_____. People react to the frustration in much the (17)_____ way. First they reject the environment which causes the (18)_____. "The ways of the host country are bad because they make us feel bad." When foreigners in a strange land get together to (19)_____ about the host country and its people, you can be sure they are (20)_____ from culture shock.


选项 A、situation
B、communication
C、state
D、association

答案A

解析 本题的考点为situation的用法辨析。这里表达的意思是"我们要使自己熟悉日常生活的—",后面的内容补充道"什么时候握手,遇见别人时说什么,什么时候且怎样给小费…"。由此可知这里说明的是日常生活中出现的情况,所以situation"情况"符合文意。communication"交流",state"状态"和association"联系"都与文意不符。
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