Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar

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问题     Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted(曲解) one.
    Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages.(78) It is only by traveling in or living in a country and getting m know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all!
    Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. (79) The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs. With the much greater rapidity and ease of travel, there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be, the greater ease of travel today has at least revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different kind of animal from themselves.

选项 A、distorted
B、normal
C、similar to each other
D、different from its own

答案D

解析 细节题。解题关键是第一段首句:“Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it。”因此D符合题意。
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