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  3. The term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabulary. Culture shock is the effect that immersion in a

The term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabulary. Culture shock is the effect that immersion in a

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问题     The term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabulary. Culture shock is the effect that immersion in a strange culture has on the unprepared visitor. Culture shock is what happens when a traveler suddenly finds himself in a place where yes may mean no, where a "fixed price" is negotiable, where to be kept waiting in an outer office is no cause for insult, where laughter may signify anger. It is what happens when the familiar psychological cues that help an individual to function in society are suddenly withdrawn and replaced by new ones that are strange or incomprehensible.
    The culture shock phenomenon accounts for much of the bewilderment, frustration, and disorientation that plagues Americans in their dealings with other societies. It causes a breakdown in communication, a misreading of reality, an inability to cope. Yet culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with the much more serious malady, future shock. Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. It may well be the most important disease of tomorrow.
    Take an individual out of his own culture and set him down suddenly in an environment sharply different from his own, with a different set of cues to react to—different conceptions of time, space, work, love, religion, sex, and everything else—than cut him off from any hope of retreat to a more familiar social landscape, and the dislocation he suffers is doubly severe. Moreover, if this new culture is itself in constant turmoil, and if—worse yet—its values are incessantly changing, the sense of disorientation will be still further intensified. Given few cues as to what kind of behavior is rational under the redically new circumstances, the victim may well become a hazard to himself and others.
    Now imagine not merely an individual but an entire society, an entire generation—including its weakest, least intelligent, and most irrational members—suddenly transported into this new world. The result is mass disorientation, future shock on a grand scale.
    This is the prospect that man now faces. Change is avalanching upon our heads and most people are absurdly unprepared to cope with it.
In the author’s opinion, "culture shock" is ______.
选项 A、the product of some future society
B、the effect of a new culture on an unprepared visitor
C、a term incomprehensive in the popular vocabulary
D、a serious social malady in the fast changing society
答案D
解析 问作者认为“文化冲击”到底是什么。答案在第二段中的这么一句中可以推断出来： Yet culturer shock is relatively mild in comparison with the much more serious malady, future shock。既然说culture shock可以与future shock可以相比较，而且比后者要轻得多，言下之意便是 culture shock也是一种social malady，故D项为正确答案。
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