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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.
【答案解析】本题的考点为对文章内容的理解和same的用法辨析。该句后面的内容主要是讲人们面对挫折时的表现和反应，并没有提到不同类型的人会怎样，所以可推知人们大都是以相同的方式对挫败作出反应的。因此，C．same“相同的”，in the same way“以相同的方式”，符合文意。A．finite“有限的”，B．strange“奇怪的”，D．familiar“熟悉的”都与文意不符。