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Experts have been interested in these effects and have agreed on five basic stages of culture shock.
These stages are general and should only be used as a reference. Not every individual will go
through each stage, and one stage may last longer than another for different individuals.
The hardest thing for most travelers to deal with is the emotional "roller coaster" they seem to be
riding. One moment they feel very positive toward the new culture, and the next moment very
negative. It seems common that international visitors and immigrants vacillate between loving and
hating a new country. Feelings of separation and alienation can be intensified if they do not have a
sense of fitting in or belonging.
Extreme tiredness is another problem people face when entering a new culture. There can be a
sense of a greater need for sleep. This is due not only to physical tiredness, but also to mental fatigue.
This mental fatigue comes from straining to comprehend the language, and coping with new situations.
The impact of culture shock can vary from person to person. There can be significant differences
because some people may be better prepared to enter a new culture. Four factors which play into
these are personality, language ability, length of stay, and the emotional support received.
It is logical to think that when people are deprived of their familiar surroundings they will feel
disoriented. One solution some have found is to bring a few small reminders of home. Pictures,
wall hangings, favorite utensils, and keepsakes(纪念品)are all good candidates to make things feel
more familiar. Another helpful activity is to establish little routines that become familiar over time.
Even better is fitting things that were part of the regular routine back in the home country into the
routine established in the new culture. This will make people feel more at home.
B. a bird back home
C. a horse lack of training
D. a fish out of water
B. stop
C. watch
D. suffer
B. Having to agree on five basic stages.
C. Having all home things taken abroad.
D. Suffering both physically and mentally.
B. recall part of regular routine in the home country
C. buy a few reminders like pictures or wall hangers
D. enjoy things brought from home country more often
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If you are invited to a formal dinner party in Paris, remember that the French have their own way of
doing things, and that even your finest manners may not be “correct” by the French custom. For example,
if you think showing up promptly at the time given on the invitation, armed with gifts of wine and roses,
praising your hostess on her cooking，laughing heartily at the host’s jokes and then doing something to
help the hostess will make you th
e perfect guest, you are wrong.
Here Madame Nora Chabal，the marketing director of the Ritz Hotel in Paris, explained how it works.
The first duty of the guest is to respond to the invitation within 48 hours.And, the guest may not ask to
bring a guest because the hostess has chosen her own.
Flowers sent in advance are the preferred gift.They may also be sent afterwards with a thankyou note.It is considered a very bad form to arrive with a gift of flowers in hand, thereby forcing the hostess to deal
with finding a vase when she is so busy. The type of flowers sent has a code of its own, too. One must never send chrysanthemums because they are considered too humble(卑微的)a flower for the occasion. Carnations are considered bad luck, and calla lilies are too reminiscent(缅怀往事的)of funerals. A
bouquet of red roses is a declaration of romantic purpos
e. Don’t send those unless you mean it, and never to a married hostess. And though the French love wine, you must never bring a bottle to a dinner party.
You may offer a box of chocolates which the hostess will pass after dinner with coffee.
If an invitation is for eight o’clock, the thoughtful guest arrives at 8∶15. Guests who arrive exactly on
time or early are thoughtless ones who are not giving the hostess those last few minutes she needs to deal with details and crisis. The “correct” guest arrives between 15 to 20 minutes after the hour because dinner will be served exactly 30 minutes past the time on the invitation.
doing things, and that even your finest manners may not be “correct” by the French custom. For example,
if you think showing up promptly at the time given on the invitation, armed with gifts of wine and roses,
praising your hostess on her cooking，laughing heartily at the host’s jokes and then doing something to
help the hostess will make you th
e perfect guest, you are wrong.Here Madame Nora Chabal，the marketing director of the Ritz Hotel in Paris, explained how it works.
The first duty of the guest is to respond to the invitation within 48 hours.And, the guest may not ask to
bring a guest because the hostess has chosen her own.
Flowers sent in advance are the preferred gift.They may also be sent afterwards with a thankyou note.It is considered a very bad form to arrive with a gift of flowers in hand, thereby forcing the hostess to deal
with finding a vase when she is so busy. The type of flowers sent has a code of its own, too. One must never send chrysanthemums because they are considered too humble(卑微的)a flower for the occasion. Carnations are considered bad luck, and calla lilies are too reminiscent(缅怀往事的)of funerals. A
bouquet of red roses is a declaration of romantic purpos
e. Don’t send those unless you mean it, and never to a married hostess. And though the French love wine, you must never bring a bottle to a dinner party.You may offer a box of chocolates which the hostess will pass after dinner with coffee.
If an invitation is for eight o’clock, the thoughtful guest arrives at 8∶15. Guests who arrive exactly on
time or early are thoughtless ones who are not giving the hostess those last few minutes she needs to deal with details and crisis. The “correct” guest arrives between 15 to 20 minutes after the hour because dinner will be served exactly 30 minutes past the time on the invitation.
d better ________.B. arrive exactly on time at the dinner party
C. bring a bottle of good wine to the dinner party
D. telephone to ask if you could bring a good friend to the party
B. If someone is ill in hospital，send calla lilies.
C. If you are invited to
a dinner party，send red roses to the hostess.
D. If you are in love with someone，s
end red 
roses.B. send a bouquet of flowers afterwards with a thankyou note
C. bring a bottle of wine instead of a bouquet of flowers
D. telephone to tell the hostess the truth
B. how to send flowers
C. how to behave well at a French dinner party
D. how different countries have different manners
| cheek, touch, represent, punish, action, approach, chest, misunderstand, curious, agreement, express, general |
| 阅读理解。 |
| Teenagers in England do much the same as children in America do. They enjoy sending messages by their mobile phones and they also like swimming, listening to the latest music, watching TV and surfing the Internet. How do teenagers in England spend their free time and holidays? Let"s follow Sally, a British teenager, and spend five days with her during her school holiday. Day One After breakfast, Sally"s mother went out and left her alone at home. She checked her mobile phone during lunch -one of her friends sent her a message early in the morning. Dinner was at 6:30 p.m. After that, she finished her English homework. Then she surfed the Internet. Day Two Sally and her mother paid a visit to their friends and went swimming together. Later, they went shopping for clothes and books, and had dinner in a restaurant. Day Three She went to the supermarket with her mother to buy fish and chips for lunch as well as some pens. After she got back home, she spent the next few hours surfing the Internet and watching TV. Day Four She surfed the Internet. Her mother took her out for lunch before she went to work. She then read stories after lunch. Day Five She woke up at 2 p.m., and so did her mother. They went to a park. Her mother met some friends there. When they got home, it was already time for dinner. Afterwards, she did her homework until 10 p.m. |
| 1. Sally and her mother went shopping again to buy _____. |
| A. food for lunch and pens B. some books and pens C. some fish and clothes D. food and books |
| 2. Which of the following things did Sally do on Day Four? |
| A. She went swimming. B. She went out for breakfast. C. She read books. D. She went shopping. |
| 3. According to the passage, it can be inferred that _____. |
| A. a park is the best place to meet a friend B. parents shouldn"t leave teenagers alone at home C. teenagers don"t usually do their homework during their school holidays D. surfing the Internet has become an important part of teenagers" lives |
| 阅读理解。 |
| On Easter Day, 1722, Dutch explorers (探索者) landed on Easter Island (复活岛). It was the first time that Easter Islanders had met people from the outside world. The strangers were about to discover something very strange themselves -that they were on an island with hundreds of huge stone statues (雕像). The Dutch explorers wondered where the Islanders had come from and why and how they had built the statues. Now science is putting together the story. The first people to arrive on the island came there around A.D. 700. The society that developed there was based on fishing and farming to feed the population, which grew to 12,000. Its success showed itself in a way that has become the island"s trademark (标记): hundreds of huge stone figures -the moai. None of the moai was standing when scientists first arrived. People put them back up later; but how had a Stone Age society ever made, moved and set them up there in the first place? And why? There are nearly 900 moai on Easter Island, and while the questions about them remain unanswered, no one doubts the years of effort that must have gone into making them. The real killer of the Easter Islanders came from across the ocean. After 1722, it became popular for explorers to visit Easter Island, bringing diseases. The final blow (打击) came in 1862, when slave traders came from Peru and took away 1,500 people, one-third of the population. |
| 1. Before the Dutch explorers arrived on Easter Island, _____. |
| A. Easter Island was separate from the outside world B. they knew where Islanders had come from C. they discovered something dangerous D. the huge stone statues were upright |
| 2. When the first explorers arrived on the island, they _____. |
| A. were frightened by the huge stone statues B. were surprised by what they saw C. set many of the moai on the island upright D. fished and farmed |
| 3. All researchers agree that _____. |
| A. the natives could hardly support themselves B. the moai must have taken a great effort to make C. the Islanders mainly died of diseases brought by explorers D. the explorers helped the Islanders live better lives |
| 4. The passage implies that _____. |
| A. the Islanders built the moai to show off their success B. the Dutch explorers discovered how the moai had been built C. in 1862, before slave traders came, about 4,500 people were living on Easter Island D. the natives of Easter Island have been there for about 1,200 years |
| 5. "The real killer" in the last paragraph refers to _____. |
| A. the slave traders B. the scientists C. the explorers D. the moai |
| 阅读理解。 |
| From bankers to factory staff, employees in the West face a cold "prospect" of losing their jobs as a global recession(衰退) starts to bite. For colleagues in the East, the pain is more likely to come through a pay cut. Human resource experts say cultural differences explain why Asian companies try harder to preserve jobs in difficult times, which will prevent unemployment and may help Asian economies survive at a time of slowing exports. The East Asian attitude may also make it easier for companies to recover quickly from the economic downturn since they will not need to rehire or train new staff, but build up a more loyal and devoted group. "In the Confucian mindset(儒家思想), the right thing to do is to share the burden, which is the sense of collective(集体的)responsibility. While in the West, it"s more about individual survival," said Michael Benoliel, associate professor of organizational behavior at Singapore Management University (SMU). In contrast, local Western companies from General Motors to Goldman Sachs plan to lay off workers by the thousands, but at the Asian units of Western multinationals or western units of Asian groups, job cuts will probably be less severe. Japan"s jobless rate was 4 percent in September, up from 3.8 percent in January, while Hong Kong"s was flat at 3.4 percent. But US unemployment is expected to have jumped to 6.3 percent last month from below 5 percent in January. Experts say that while there are noticeable differences in labor practices in East and West, the gap will narrow as more firms become more multinational and competition forces firms to adopt the best practices of rivals from abroad. |
| 1. The underlined word "prospect" in the first paragraph most probably means _________. |
| A. weather B. scene C. future D. place |
| 2. Compared with job cuts, pay cuts can bring the following benefits EXCEPT that _________. |
| A. it"s helpful to the economy recovery B. it costs the company less money to survive C. it will keep the experienced and skilled workers D. it can form a team working harder and more loyally |
| 3. According to Michael Benoliel, the Confucian mindset focuses on _________. A. human rights B. sharing responsibility C. personal profits D. individual survival |
| 4. In which company can we infer the job cuts will be probably the most severe? |
| A. A local American group. B. A small Japanese company. C. A German branch of a Korean multinational. D. A Hong Kong"s unit of a French company. |
| 5. The passage mainly tells us ________. |
| A. the difficulties all the companies around the world will meet with today B. the cultural differences between Eastern and Western world at present C. the ways to cut down the cost of the companies in economic downturn D. the different labor solutions of Asian and Western in global recession |