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Culture shock might be called an occupational disease of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad. Like most ailments,

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问题     Culture shock might be called an occupational disease of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad. Like most ailments, it has its own (1)_____ and cure.
    Culture shock is (2)_____ by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse. Those signs or cues include the thousand and one (3)_____ in which we orient ourselves to the (4)_____ of daily life: when to shake hands and what to say when we meet people, when and how to give tips, how to (5)_____ purchases, when to accept and when to refuse invitations, when to take statement seriously and when not. These cues, (6)_____ may be words, gestures, facial (7)_____ customs, or norms, are (8)_____ by all of us in the course of growing up and are as much a (9)_____ of our culture as the language we speak or the beliefs we accept. All of us (10)_____ for our peace of mind and our efficiency on hundreds of these cues, (11)_____ of which we do not carry on the (12)_____ of conscious awareness.
    Now when an individual (13)_____ a strange culture, all or most of these familiar cues are removed. He or she is like a fish out of water. No matter how broad-minded or (14)_____ of goodwill you may be, a series of props have been (15)_____ under you, followed by a feeling of frustration and (16)_____. People react to the frustration in much the (17)_____ way. First they reject the environment which causes the (18)_____. "The ways of the host country are bad because they make us feel bad." When foreigners in a strange land get together to (19)_____ about the host country and its people, you can be sure they are (20)_____ from culture shock.

选项 A、difference
B、disagreement
C、difficulty
D、discomfort
答案D
解析 本题的考点为对文章内容的理解和名词的辨析。空格处的下一句提到"因为东道国的方式使我们感觉不好，所以它们是不好的"，由此可推知人们会排斥某种环境是因为它使他们感到不舒服，所以discomfort"不舒服，不适"符合文意。difference"区别，差异"，disagreement"不一致"，difficulty"困难"都与文意不符。
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