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  3. The term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabulary. Culture shock is the effect that immersion in a

The term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabulary. Culture shock is the effect that immersion in a

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问题     The term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabulary. Culture shock is the effect that immersion in a strange culture has on the unprepared visitor. Culture shock is what happens when a traveler suddenly finds himself in a place where yes may mean no, where a "fixed price" is negotiable, where to be kept waiting in an outer office is no cause for insult, where laughter may signify anger. It is what happens when the familiar psychological cues that help an individual to function in society are suddenly withdrawn and replaced by new ones that are strange or incomprehensible.
    The culture shock phenomenon accounts for much of the bewilderment, frustration, and disorientation that plagues Americans in their dealings with other societies. It causes a breakdown in communication, a misreading of reality, an inability to cope. Yet culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with the much more serious malady, future shock. Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. It may well be the most important disease of tomorrow.
    Take an individual out of his own culture and set him down suddenly in an environment sharply different from his own, with a different set of cues to react to—different conceptions of time, space, work, love, religion, sex, and everything else—than cut him off from any hope of retreat to a more familiar social landscape, and the dislocation he suffers is doubly severe. Moreover, if this new culture is itself in constant turmoil, and if—worse yet—its values are incessantly changing, the sense of disorientation will be still further intensified. Given few cues as to what kind of behavior is rational under the redically new circumstances, the victim may well become a hazard to himself and others.
    Now imagine not merely an individual but an entire society, an entire generation—including its weakest, least intelligent, and most irrational members—suddenly transported into this new world. The result is mass disorientation, future shock on a grand scale.
    This is the prospect that man now faces. Change is avalanching upon our heads and most people are absurdly unprepared to cope with it.
It seems that one good measure to prevent future shock is for people to ______.
选项 A、cherish more hope for the future
B、replace conventional ideas with modern ones
C、try to understand what is happening and prepare for the changes
D、take a closer look at how people in other cultures behave
答案C
解析 问预防未来冲击的好办法是什么。A项(对未来充满希望)未有提及；B项也没有提及；D项(仔细观察其他文化中人们的行为方式)也没有这样说过。但C项在最后一段中可以推断出来，既然人们都没有准备好，而人们又必须面对这种前景，所以C项比较合适。
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