1 . Culture shock occurs when people have been suddenly thrown into a new culture. Newcomers may be anxious because they don’t speak the language. Neither do they know the customs or understand the people’s behavior in daily life.

Quite often the visitor find that “yes” may not always mean “yes”, that friendliness does not necessarily mean friendship, or that statements that appear to be serious are really intended as jokes. The foreigners may be unsure as when to shake hands, when to start conversations, or how to approach a stranger. The idea of culture shock helps explain feeling of puzzlement and confusion.

Language problems do not lead to all the setbacks that people feel. When one has lost everything that was once familiar, such as understanding a transportation system, knowing how to register for university classes, or knowing how to make friends, difficulties in coping with the new society may arise.

When a person enters a strange culture, he or she feels like a fish out of water. Newcomers feel at times that they do not belong to the culture and feel abandoned by the native members of the culture. When this happens, visitors may want to refuse everything about the new environment and may praise and sing their own praises of the positive aspects of their own culture. On the other side, more visitors may sneeze at their native country by refusing to accept its value and instead choosing to approve of the value of the new country. This may occur as an attempt to accept the new culture in order to be taken in by the people in it.

1. What do people feel when they are suddenly in a new culture?

A．Excited.

B．Delighted.

C．Upset.

D．Hopeless.

2. We can infer from the second paragraph that _______.

A．it’s impossible to get used to a new culture

B．people feel confused due to culture shock

C．foreigners often don’t mean what they say

D．most foreigners are usually quite humorous

3. According to the passage, the barrier people often meet with in a new country are the following EXCEPT _______..

A．the language	B．the transportation
C．the environment	D．the food

4. The underlined expression “he or she feels like a fish out of water” in the last paragraph suggests ________.

A．people away from their cultures can hardly survive in a new culture

B．a fish can not survive without water

C．people away from their culture experience mental loneliness.

D．people away from their culture have many difficulties in new environment