Question

【題目】

Third-Culture Kids

Did you grow up in one culture, your parents came from another, and you are now living in a totally different country? If so, then you are a third-culture kid!

The term “third-culture kid”(or TCK) was coined in the 1960s by Dr. Ruth. She first came across this phenomenon when she researched North American children living in India. Caught between two cultures, they form their very own. 【1】 About 90 percent of them have a university degree, while 40 percent pursue a post graduate or doctor degree. They usually benefit from their intercultural experience, which helps them to grow into successful academics and professionals.

【2】 In fact many hardships may arise from this phenomenon. A third-culture kid may not be able to adapt themselves completely to their new surroundings as expected. Instead, they may always remain an outsider in different host cultures. Max, for example, experienced this fundamental feeling of strangeness throughout his life as a third-culture kid. 【3】 While this can be a way to create a network of friends all around the world, it can be difficult for a third-culture kid like Max to maintain close friendships and relationships.

For a third-culture kid, it is often easier to move to a new foreign country than to return to their “home” country. After living in Australia and South Korea for many years. Louis finally returned to Turkey as a teenager. But she felt out of place when she returned to the country where she was born. 【4】 She did not share the same values as her friends’ even years after going back home.

While a third-culture kid must let go of their identity as foreigner when he/she returns, the home country can prove to be more foreign than anything he/she came across before. The peer group they face does not match the idealized image children have of “home”. 【5】

As a part of the growing “culture”, TCKs may find it a great challenge for them to feel at home in many places.

A．Yet being a third-culture kid is not always easy.

B．In general, they often reach excellent academic results.

C．This often makes it hard for them to form their own identity.

D．However, their parents can help them see the opportunities of a mobile lifestyle.

E．Their experience abroad helps them to gain a better understanding of cultural differences.

F．Unlike other teens of her age, she didn’t know anything about current TV shows or fashion trends.

G．Additionally, making new friends and saying goodbye to old ones will at some point become routine for a third-culture kid.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】G

【4】F

【5】C

【解析】

【1】根據(jù)空格后面的內(nèi)容說(shuō)他們90%大學(xué)畢業(yè)，40%繼續(xù)攻讀研究生或博士學(xué)位，他們通常受益于他們的跨文化經(jīng)驗(yàn)，這有助于他們成長(zhǎng)為成功的學(xué)者和專業(yè)人士，故選B項(xiàng)啟下，“一般而言，他們往往取得優(yōu)異的學(xué)業(yè)成績(jī)。”B項(xiàng)中的academic與這一段最后一句中的academics為同詞復(fù)現(xiàn)。

【2】根據(jù)空格后一句“這種現(xiàn)象事實(shí)上可能導(dǎo)致很多的困難”，故A項(xiàng)“然而作一個(gè)第三文化孩子并不總是很容易”與下文自然銜接，選項(xiàng)中的not easy與空格后一句中的hardship屬于同義詞復(fù)現(xiàn)。

【3】根據(jù)空格后面一句中create a network of friends可知，選G項(xiàng)，G項(xiàng)中的making new friends與空格后面一句中create a network of friends是同義詞復(fù)現(xiàn)。

【4】根據(jù)空格前的內(nèi)容說(shuō)“當(dāng)她回到她出生的地方時(shí)她感覺(jué)很別扭”，以及空格后說(shuō)她在回國(guó)多年之后依然與朋友沒(méi)有共同的價(jià)值觀，故F項(xiàng)“與同年齡的青少年不同，她不知道任何目前的電視節(jié)目和流行趨勢(shì)”可以承接上下文。

【5】前面講述了第三文化的孩子在返回祖國(guó)后卻發(fā)現(xiàn)祖國(guó)對(duì)他們而言是外國(guó)，他們很難將心目中的家與祖國(guó)匹配起來(lái)，而這使他們很難形成自己的身份認(rèn)同。