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Culture Shock

Culture shock refers to the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, uncertainty, confusion, etc.) felt when people have to operate within a different and unknown cultural or social environment, such as a foreign country.

Generally speaking, we could say that there are four stages of culture shock. The first stage is called “the honeymoon”. In this stage, you are excited about living in a different place. ___1.__

The next stage is “the hostility(敌意) stage”. In this stage, you begin to notice not everything is as good as you originally thought it was. ___2.___ Moreover, people don’t treat you like a guest anymore.

Then you come to the third stage called “recovery”. In this stage, you start to feel more positive. ___3._ The whole situation starts to become more favorable and begin to learn to adapt yourself to it.

The last stage of culture shock is called “adjustment”. In this stage, you have reached a point where you actually feel good. ___4.__ The things that originally made you feel uncomfortable or stranger are now things that you understand. Now you have adjusted to the new culture and you feel comfortable.

Not all individuals visiting another country will experience all the four stages. ___5.___ It also occurs within cultures as individuals move from place to place or from one setting to another (e.g., from high school to college).

A. You feel that friends should help each other to deal with culture shock.

B. And you try to develop comprehension of everything you don’t understand.

C. In addition, culture shock is not limited to the overseas visitors.

D. You become tired of many things about the new culture.

E. You have learned enough to understand the new culture.

F. You begin to understand you need to travel a lot.

G. And everything seems to be marvelous and everybody seems to be so nice to you.

New Zealand Education

Compulsory Education

Compulsory education starts at age 5 and ends at age 16.

Class Size

The number of students in a class is 30 students.

Classrooms

Students from Years 5-8 stay in the same classroom for most subjects and move to other classrooms only for specific subjects. In Year 9, students take some courses With their homeroom class and some optional classes with students from different classes. Starting from Year 10, students no longer stay in the same classroom most of the time. They go to different classes according to their own choices and abilities.

Term Dates

A school year starts in January and ends in December. There are four terms in a year. Each term is about 10 weeks.

Class Schedule

School starts at around 8:30 and ends at 15:15. There are only five periods a day and a period is about an hour long. In the morning, around 10:30, there will be a 20-minute break when students usually have some snacks during this time. There is a lunch period at around 12:40 for about an hour.

Teachers

Teachers have to teach students of different year level at the same time. Most teachers teach students from at least three to four different year levels. Besides, quite a number of teachers teach more than one subject. This is because the fact that many courses are optional.

1.This passage is most probably taken from.

A. an educational book B. a sport magazine

C. a traveling guide D. a film website

2.When you are in your 10th school year, you may.

A. choose and take some optional courses with your homeroom class

B. stay with your classmates in the same classroom for all the subjects

C. have both required and optional classes with the same classmates

D. choose different classes according to your own choices and abilities

3.The meaning of the underlined word "optional" in Paragraph 3 is close to " ".

A. limited B. selective

C. sensitive D. typical

4.According to the passage, why can many teachers teach more than one subject?

A. Because many courses are optional.

B. Because there are not enough classrooms.

C. Because many of the subjects are too easy.

D. Because the teachers are more than enough.

As is often the case, when your teacher asks a question, there is only one correct answer. But there is one question that has millions of current answers. That question is "What's your name?" Everyone gives a different answer, but everyone is correct.

Have you ever thought about people's names? Where do they come from? What do they mean?

People's first names, or given names, are chosen by their parents. Sometimes the name of a grandparent or other member of the family is used. Some parents choose the name of a well-known person. A boy could be named George Washington Smith; a girl could be named Helen Keller Jones.

Some people give their children names that mean good things. Clara means "bright"; Beatrice means "one who gives happiness"; Donald means "world ruler"; Leonard means “as brave as a lion”.

The earliest last names, or surnames, were taken from place names. A family with the name Brook or Brooks probably lived near brook(小溪); someone who was called Longstreet probably lived on a long, paved road. The Greenwood family lived in or near a leafy forest.

Other early surnames came from people's occupations. The most common occupational name is Smith, which means a person who makes things with iron or other metals. In the past, smiths were very important workers in every town and village. Some other occupational names are: Carter — a person who owned or drove a cart; Potter — a person who made pots and pans.

The ancestors of the Baker family probably baked bread for their neighbors in their native village. The Carpenter's great-great-great-grandfather probably built houses and furniture.

Sometimes people were known for the color of their hair or skin, or their size, or their special abilities. When there were two men who were named John in the same village, the John with the gray hair probably became John Gray. Or the John was very tall could call himself John Tallman. John Fish was probably an excellent swimmer and John Lightfoot was probably a fast runner or a good dancer.

Some family names were made by adding something to the father's name. English-speaking people added –s or –son. The Johnsons are descendants of John; the Roberts family's ancestor was Robert. Irish and Scottish people added Mac or Mc or O. Perhaps all of the MacDonnell’s and the McDonnell’s and the O’Donnell’s are descendants of the same Donnell.

1.Which of the following aspects do the surnames in the passage NOT cover?

A. People's characters.

B. Talents that people possessed.

C. People's occupations.

D. Places where people lived.

2.According to the passage, the ancestors of the Potter family most probably ________.

A. made things with metals

B. made kitchen tools or contains

C. built houses and furniture

D. owned or drove a cart

3.Suppose an English couple whose ancestors lived near a leafy forest wanted their new-born son to become a world leader, the baby might be named ________.

A. Leonard CarterB. George Longstreet

C. Donald GreenwoodD. Beatrice Smith

4.The underlined word "descendants” in the last paragraph means a person's ________.

A. friends and relatives

B. colleagues and partners

C. grandparents

D. later generations

Of all the men who ever liked fresh air, no one liked it more than James Wilson did. He ________ slept with his window open even when snow was falling outside.

One winter, he went to Finland on business. When he ________ his room in the hotel, he found that the windows were closed to ________ the icy air out. He did his best to open one but failed. The bed was really ________, but Wilson couldn’t sleep. He wasn’t able to ________ the closed windows. No fresh air! It was ________ to think of.

At about one o’clock in the morning, he was ________ awake. Worrying about the air in the room, he became very angry. Where was the ________? He could see something that looked like ________ over there. He threw a shoe at it through the darkness with all the force of his strong right arm. A terrible sound of breaking glass ________ the room, but to Wilson’s sad heart, it seemed like the sound of ________ music.

When daylight came through the window, he ________ and lay with his eyes close. There was ________ to worry about. ________ was it? Oh, the broken window! Yes, indeed. He would have to pay ________ that. He opened his eyes to look. Suddenly he sat up in ________. The window was not broken at all. The ________ was all in one piece, just as good as it had been the night before. ________ fresh air was entering the room through the window!

He then turned his eyes to the ________ and saw a broken picture ________ on the all. There was a shoe on the floor below it, and a lot of broken glasses around the shoe.

1.A. seldomB. oftenC. sometimesD. always

2.A. leftB. cleanedC. enteredD. examined

3.A. preventB. keepC. stopD. send

4.A. coldB. comfortableC. badD. terrible

5.A. rememberB. forgetC. remindD. think

6.A. unluckyB. anxiousC. difficultD. terrible

7.A. alreadyB. nearlyC. hardlyD. still

8.A. waiterB. managerC. windowD. light

9.A. paperB. glassC. pictureD. man

10.A. destroyedB. coveredC. filledD. entered

11.A. funnyB. strangeC. beautifulD. famous

12.A. got upB. woke upC. came intoD. came down

13.A. nothingB. anyoneC. somethingD. someone

14.A. WhatB. HowC. WhereD. Who

15.A. toB. withC. fromD. for

16.A. silenceB. surpriseC. troubleD. pain

17.A. windowB. pictureC. glassD. shoe

18.A. MuchB. NoC. StillD. Yet

19.A. outsideB. topC. sideD. bottom

20.A. lyingB. hangingC. fallingD. standing

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