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Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time，you should listen carefully for its general idea.When the passage is read for the second time，you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally，when the passage is read for the third time，you should check what you have written.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
When Captain Cook asked the chiefs in Tahiti why they always ate __26__, they replied. "Because it is right." If we ask Americans why they eat with knives and forks, or why their men wear pants __27__ skirts, or why they may be married to only one person at a time, we are likely to get __28__ and very uninformative answers: "Because it's right. " "Because that's the way it's done." "Because it's the __29__. " Or even "I don't know. " The reason for these and countless other patterns of social behavior is that they are __30__ by social norms-shared rules or guidelines which prescribe the behavior that is appropriate in a given situation. Norms __31__ how people "ought" to behave under particular circumstances in a particular society. We conform(遵守) to norms so readily that we are hardly aware they __32__. In fact, we are much more likely to notice __33__ from norms than conformity to them. You would not be surprised if a stranger tried to shake hands when you were introduced, but you might be a little __34__ if they bowed, started to stroke you, or kissed you on both __35__ Yet each of these other forms of greeting is appropriate in other parts of the world. When we visit another society whose norms are different, we quickly become aware that things we do this way, they do that way.
| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| avoid | [ə'vɔid] | 联想记忆 | ||
| preventable | [pri'ventəbl, pri:-] | |||
| inform | [in'fɔ:m] | 联想记忆 | ||
| discharge | [dis'tʃɑ:dʒ] | |||
| startle | ['stɑ:tl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| departure | [di'pɑ:tʃə] | |||
| conform | [kən'fɔ:m] | 联想记忆 | ||
| carelessness | ['kɛəlisnis] | |||
| mailbox | ['meilbɔks] | |||
| conclusion | [kən'klu:ʒən] |
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