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Working or learning in a foreign country can be a difficult experience, both professionally and personally, because of the culture shock.
The hardest part of working abroad isn't finding a place to stay or learning the language. It's learning to overcome the culture shock. The anthropologist(人类学家) Kalvero Oberg first put forward the term ''culture shock''. He reported that the culture shock was caused by the ''anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse(社交) while living and working in another culture''.
These things are part of everyday life, and include many signs, gestures, facial expressions, and customs. When we enter a new culture, these cues(提示) are usually not present or so different that they're no longer understandable to us.
''When a person enters a foreign culture, '' wrote Oberg, ''all or most of these familiar cues are eliminated. He or she is like a fish out of water. No matter how broad-minded he or she may be, lots of props(支柱) have been knocked out from the environment.''
This is what happened to Lara, a young IT consultant(顾问) from America moved last year to their company in southern Europe. Three weeks after she arrived in Europe, Lara sent a desperate e-mail begging to return home. ''The people are so unfriendly, '' Lara wrote. ''They eat at strange hours and I'm starting to get allergic(过敏的) to the local food. I can't get anything done because their way of doing business is so disorganized and so inefficient and I have a terrible skin itch because of the water. I want to come home!''
What Lara and other IT consultants meet on their first assignment abroad is a culture shock. While you can't prevent the culture shock from happening, you can take some measures to cut down its effects.
1.What is the most difficult part for a foreign student?
A.Learning the foreign language. B.Adapting to the local culture.
C.Finding a right place to live. D.Entering a famous school.
2.Which of the following can replace the underlined word “eliminated” in Paragraph 4?
A.observed B.removed
C.solved D.measured
3.What happened to Lara when she arrived in Europe?
A.Her life got into a mess.
B.She worked more efficient than at home.
C.She couldn’t get on well with her colleagues.
D.She was out of condition because of the weather.
4.Why does the author describe Lara’s experience?
A.To show us where we’ll meet with the culture shock.
B.To show us how to adapt to the culture shock.
C.To explain to us what the culture shock is.
D.To tell us how she manages to work well.
5.What would be talked about in the paragraph that follows the last one?
A.Why Lara wants to come home.
B.Who will come across the culture shock.
C.What a person meets in a foreign culture.
D.How a person adapts to the culture shock.
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The Disneyland parks are full of amusements, but they're also small cities that deal with deliveries, rubbish, and groups of visitors. People need to move from one place to another; they have to refuel and relax. To meet these requirements, the parks are well-equipped in reality. For example, Disneyland Park in California has a reliable transport system. In Walt Disney World in Florida, dustbins are spaced 30 feet apart, and all of them are emptied through underground tubes(地下管道).
None of this happened by accident. Walt Disney first had his idea for a play land in 1937. He first imagined the park’s buildings in a small size. He spent years collecting ideas by visiting other places. He studied Beverly Park in Los Angeles, including rebuilt historic villages. He visited Colonial Williamsburg, where employees dressed up and walked around… Then he organized a team of engineers and designers to plan and build a small world he called Disneyland. Walt Disney had blueprints(蓝图) drawn up, and tried to get the permission to break ground(破土动工).
In 1952, he showed his plan to the Burbank City government, for a 16-acre site between Griffith Park and his studio in Burbank. They didn't go for it. ''We don't want the carnival(嘉年华会) atmosphere, '' an official said. ''We don't want the loud music and screaming.''
The failure got Disney thinking even bigger. In 1953, he closed a deal to buy some land in Anaheim. Some designers thought it was too far, but Disney went ahead. It was like building a new city. Pipes had to be fixed. Railway track had to be laid around. Disney chose the hub-and-spoke(轴辐式) street pattern that many cities have. ''I want Disneyland to be a place where you can't get lost, '' he said. Designers and architects also diagrammed(图解) the rides and made models, while artists painted the background.
Finally in July 1955, the visitors came. If they picked up maps, they could see the results of years' planning: the shops and restaurants, the square, and the streets. The magic city had finally jumped off the drawing board and come into real life.
1.What does the author want to show about Disneyland parks in the first paragraph?
A.The convenient environment.
B.The amusing tourist attractions.
C.The differences between the parks.
D.The visitors' common requirements.
2.Why did Walt Disney travel to different places including Beverly Park?
A.To choose a place for construction.
B.To advertise his Disneyland Park.
C.To experience American culture.
D.To get inspired for his park.
3.What led to the Burbank City government refusing Disney's application?
A.Upsetting noises.
B.Possible safety dangers.
C.Harm to the local environment.
D.Large areas for building the park.
4.What kind of person is Walt Disney according to the passage?
A.Considerate and hard-working.
B.Stubborn but kind-hearted.
C.Careful and determined.
D.Confident but selfish.
5.What's the best title of the text?
A.It is worthwhile to build large parks
B.Disneyland has been built like a brand-new city
C.How a theme park was built in a big city of USA
D.Disneyland --- a famous park around the world
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