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Book 2 Unit 2 The Olympic Games
阅读理解·提速练
Ⅰ.阅读理解(建议用时30′)
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(2021·百师联盟联考)
Culture shock is a broad term for the series of personal difficulties that people go through in new places.It’s usually most extreme for those who can’t speak the language of the place they have moved to,or for those who aren’t familiar with the social rules.Both of these things applied to me in China when I moved there in 2011.
So,naturally,I went through the four well-known stages of culture shock:honeymoon,distress(痛苦),re-integration(重新融入) and autonomy(独立自主).
When I arrived,I was excited and optimistic,but I quickly became irritated(恼火的) by cultural differences,missing how things worked back home.
By the end of my first year,I had totally lost my self-confidence; I was a bitter,clumsy and sensitive person,and I blamed China for making me that way.
Then,in my second year,I started to pick up some language skills,and I found fun activities to do in my spare time.I made great foreign and Chinese friends,and I developed an interest in Chinese history and culture.
I learned to consider myself a confident and happy laowai.
Today I’m back in the US,where I’m pursuing a PhD at a university in my hometown.It’s been a little tough to readjust to life in my home country.I suffered at first from “reverse” culture shock,experiencing the four stages in the opposite order.
I started out feeling independent and self-confident,before slowly realizing that I knew my country much less well than I used to.I’d complain loudly about little things,like how I could no longer shout “fuwuyuan!” to get a waiter’s attention in a restaurant.
But eventually,I came to realize that what I had thought was that my “home” had become an entirely new place while I’d been away.That,by itself,was exciting.
语篇解读 本文是夹叙夹议文。文章讲述了作者在中国期间经历的文化冲击的四个阶段:蜜月、痛苦、重新融入和独立自主。回到美国后,作者又经历了“反向”文化冲击。
1.Which of the following least helped the author ease his culture shock in China?
A.By learning the Chinese language.
B.By makin