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1. If and when you become thoroughly disenchanted with your surroundings that the problem probably isn't so much in them as it is in you
2. While it may be somewhat painful, culture shock can be a very valuable experience, a mind-stretching process that will leave you with broader perspectives, deeper insight into yourself and wider tolerance for other people.
3. Everyone has an ethnocentric tendency to think that his own culture is superior to all others. Actually, any culture is a good culture, if it provides an environment that meets basic human needs.
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
1. Identify the one underlined word for the sentence to be correct.
1. A feeling of helplessness is considered to be the one of the symptoms of culture shock.
A B C
2. An individual lives in a cultural environment consisting from manmade objects, social
A B
institutions and beliefs.
C
3. If you will have an aggressive attitude to the people of the host country, they will try to
A B C
avoid you.
4. Being in a foreign country, some people may feel a terrible longing to being back home.
A B C
5. The young learns to adapt themselves to the physical environment and to the people
A
with whom they associate by means of culture.
B C
6. Culture shock affectsmore husbands then wives.
A B C
7. Most people who live abroad for an extended period experience difficulties in adjusting
A B
for the new culture.
C
Match the words in column A with their synonyms in column B.
1. disgruntled a. desire
2. affect b. perceive
3. longing c. pass on
4. discern d. criticize
5. transmit e. discontented
6. ridicule f. influence
7. censure g. utter
8. outright h. make fun of smb/smth
Complete the following table with the nouns and adjectives related to the verbs listed.
| Verb | Noun | Adjective |
| disgruntle | ||
| affect | ||
| affront | ||
| adjust | ||
| ridicule | ||
| avoid | ||
| transmit | ||
| associate |
Fill in the gaps with the words from the box.
| excessive, outright refusal, affront, hostile, awareness, to the extent that, to attribute, disgruntled, to censure, milieu |
1. We ____ this saying to Shakespeare.
2. The House ____ the Member of Parliament for his rude remark to the Minister.
3. It takes a while to get accustomed to an environment that differs much from the ___ in which you grew up.
4. ___ drinking may cause various heart diseases and problems with blood pressure.
5. He used to exaggerate ___ in the end no one believed him.
6. The riot police soon dispersed the ___ crowd.
7. Their ___ to comply with the resolution enraged the chairman.
8. There is a general ___ that smoking is harmful.
9. It was an ___ to his pride.
10. He was ___ at having his working hours disturbed.
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