Question

The term, culture shock, describes the anxiety produced when a person moves to a completely new environment. This term expresses the lack of direction, the feeling of not knowing what to do, and not knowing what is appropriate or inappropriate. The feeling of culture shock generally sets in after the first few weeks of coming to a new place.

We can describe culture shock as the physical and emotional discomfort one suffers when coming to live in another country or place. Often, the way that we lived before is not accepted as or considered as normal in the new place. Everything is different, for example, not speaking the language, not knowing how to use banking machines and so forth.

Although one can experience real pain from culture shock, it is also an opportunity for resetting one' s life objectives. It is a great opportunity for learning and acquiring new viewpoints. Culture shock can make one develop a better understanding of oneself.

Culture shock has many stages. The first stage is called the "honeymoon" stage. The new arrival may feel excited as everything is new.

In the second stage, a person may encounter some difficult times in daily life. For example, communication difficulties may occur such as not being understood. There may be feelings of discontent, anger, sadness, and feeling incompetence. This happens when a person is trying to adapt to a new culture. Transition (過渡) between the old methods and those of the new country is a difficult process and takes time to complete.

The third stage is characterized by gaining some understanding of the new culture. One may start to feel a certain psychological balance. The new arrival may start to have a feeling of direction and want to belong.

In the fourth stage, the person realizes that the new culture has good and bad things to offer. The person has a more solid feeling of belonging and starts to set goals for living.

The fifth stage is called the " re-entry shock". This occurs when a return to the

country of origin is made. One may find that things are no longer the same. For example, some of the newly acquired customs are not in use in the old culture.

Many factors (因素) contribute to the length and effects of culture shock. For example, the individual's state of mental health, type of personality, previous experiences, familiarity with the language, and level of education. So the five stages are present at different times and each person has their own way of reacting. 64. What do we learn about culture shock?

1.What do we learn about culture shock?

A. It has negative effect on people.

B. Its effect can differ from person to person.

C. It disappears when people return to their homelands.

D. It can be avoided if one can understand the language.

2.Which stage of culture shock is Tommy in?

Tommy moved to France with his parents two months ago.

But now he still can not get used to the life there.

He also has problems in schooling.

Even worse, he doesn't think anybody cares about him.

A. Stage 2. B. Stage 3. C. Stage 4. D. Stage 5.

3. The main purpose of the passage is to________

A. discuss and clarify B. argue and advise

C. introduce and explain D. compare and evaluate

Answer 1

1.B

2.A

3.C

【解析】

試題分析：文化沖擊帶來的影響是巨大的。當(dāng)我們面對一個(gè)陌生的環(huán)境時(shí)，我們可能都會覺得不適應(yīng)，不能理解周圍有悖于自己認(rèn)識的現(xiàn)象。那么如可讓自己快速的融入新的環(huán)境、減少或消除文化沖擊的不良影響呢？

1.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由最后一段里“For example, the individual' s state of mental health, type of personality, previous experiences, familiarity with the language, and level of education.”可知，文化沖擊對人的影響受多重因素作用，個(gè)人因素就是其中之一。所以選B。

2.推理判斷題。由第五段“In the second stage, a person may encounter some difficult times in daily life.”可知，在第二階段，人們在日常生活中會遇到麻煩。湯米在學(xué)校里不能適應(yīng)，并且覺得沒有人關(guān)心他，表明他現(xiàn)在的生活還是很不方便。所以選A。

3.主旨大意題。文章先介紹了文化沖擊（突然處于一個(gè)與前大不相同的社會和文化環(huán)境中，因而感到困惑、憂慮、煩惱的心情）的含義，并對其進(jìn)行了階段分類以加深人們的理解，因此是在介紹與解釋。discuss and clarify討論和澄清； argue and advise主張和建議； compare and evaluate比較和評價(jià)。所以選C。

考點(diǎn)：社科類短文閱讀。