Scholars and researchers have tried to discover what
personality characteristics go along with success in different cultural
experiences. Their findings have often been unclear or incomplete. But three
typical characteristics stand out in their reports: patience, a sense of humor,
and the awareness of being unclear.
Patience, of course, is the ability
to keep calm when things do not go as one wants them to, or as one hopes they
would, or even as one was sure they would. Impatience sometimes brings
improvements in relations with other people, but usually it does not.
A person with a sense of humor is
less likely to take things too seriously and more ready to see the humor in his
own reaction than a humorless person. The value of a sense of humor really
needs to be paid more attention to.
“The awareness of being unclear”
is a more difficult concept to understand than patience and a sense of humor.
Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear as they are
newcomers. That is, they do not know what is happening in a certain situation.
Perhaps they do not understand the local language well enough, or they do not
know how some system or organization works, or they can’t be sure of different
people’s roles in what is going on. “It’s like that I just got here from the
moon,” a Chinese graduate student who newly arrived in the United States said.
“Things are just so different here.”
1.The passage mainly tells us ______.
A. about some uneasy traveling experiences in foreign
countries
B. about the three main ways to communicate with
foreigners
C. about some typical characteristics in different
cultural experiences
D. how to show your characters to foreigners
2.According to the passage, which characteristic
should be focused on most?
A. The ability to keep cool. B. The
sense of humor.
C. Patience.
D. The awareness of being unclear.
3.“The awareness of being unclear” refers to “______”
.
A. not knowing what is happening in a situation
B. not understanding the local language well enough
C. being aware that the situation is unclear
D. not knowing how some system or organization works
4.By what the Chinese graduate student said, we can
learn that ______.
A. he is not used to the culture of America
B. he went to the United States to study the moon
C. he is a person with a sense of humor
D. he has just returned from the moon