Passage 48
学霸导读 俗语说“入乡随俗”，可见不同的地方必然会有一些文化差异。来到一个新的地方，人们总会经历或大或小的“文化冲击”，然而学会适应与欣赏亦是文化多元化的开始。
It is often said that when people go to a different country for the f irst time, they experience culture shock, because e 1 is so different: the language, the food, the landscape, the social customs and lots of others! When I f irst set foot in the City of Leeds, England, I found myself in a c 2 different culture from that of my own city, Guangzhou. For the f irst few days of my stay in Leeds, I really knew about this so-called “culture shock”.
One problem I had was with the food. Obviously Chinese people are not used to the t 3 of British food, but mentally I was prepared for that “shock”. The problem I actually had was with the names of the different types of food. When I went to the university canteen, it was very embarrassing: When the woman behind the counter asked me what I wanted, all I could do was to p 4 and say “I want this” or “I want that”.
Something else which was different was the countryside. When I was sitting on the bus heading from Manchester International Airport towards Leeds， I saw through the window large f 5 of green grass on either side of the motorway. There were no crops but green grass and beautiful trees all the way. Now and then， I could see some sheep or horses grazing （ 吃草 ） in a free way in the vast green areas. What a beautiful landscape！ You probably wouldn’t see such a scene in China e 6 in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia because we Chinese use most piece of land to grow crops. As you know， China has the largest population in the world but very l 7 agricultural land which supports about one f ifth of the world’s population. We need to make full use of land.
I have given some examples of “culture shock”, but after a few days, I got over this and really enjoyed my stay in England.
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高频词汇
embarrassing /ɪm'bærəsɪŋ/ adj. 令人尴尬的
vast /vɑːst/ adj. 辽阔的，巨大的
landscape /'lændskeɪp/ n. （尤指乡村的）风景，景色
population /ˌpɒpju'leɪʃn/ n. 人口
agricultural /ˌægrɪ'kʌltʃərəl/ adj. 农业的，农用的