Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the...

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 28 to 32.

Culture shock is the loss of emotional balance, disorientation, or confusion that a person feels when moving from a familiar environment to an unfamiliar one. (28) ____________. Individual personality, previous cross-cultural experience, and language proficiency all affect a person's ability to interact socially in the new culture. The basic cause of culture shock is the abrupt loss of all that is familiar, (29) ____________.

When an individual enters a strange culture, all or most of those familiar signs and hints are removed. He or she is like a fish out of water. No matter how broad-minded or good-willed he may be, a series of properties have been knocked from under him. (30) ____________. People react to the frustration in much the same way. First, they reject the environment that causes the discomfort: "The ways of the host country are bad because they make us feel bad."

Another aspect of culture shock is regression. (31) ____________, and everything becomes irrationally glorified. All difficulties and problems are forgotten, and only the good things back home are remembered. It usually takes a trip home to bring one back to reality.

Common symptoms of culture shock include the following extremes. These are excessive concerns, over delays and other minor frustrations: fear of being cheated, robbed or injured; (32) ____________; and a great longing to go home. Underlying all these is the uncomfortable feeling of not really belonging, of being an outsider.

Question 28. 

        A. While it is a common experience, the degree to which it occurs will vary from one person to another

        B. It is the degree which varies from one person to another that is a common experience

        C. What varies from one person to another is the degree to which it occurs as a common experience

        D. It is such a common experience that the degree to which it occurs varies from one person to another

Question 29. 

        A. the result is that the new environment is isolated and disconnected

        B. leading to a sense of isolation and disconnection from the new environment

        C. a sense of isolation may lead to disconnection from the new environment

        D. feeling isolated and disconnected from the new environment

Question 30. 

        A. This may be followed by a feeling of frustration and anxiety

        B. These, however, may follow the individual’s frustration and anxiety

        C. Also, a sense of frustration and anxiety may arise

        D. That feeling may subsequently result from frustration and anxiety

Question 31. 

        A. At that time, when home suddenly becomes a very important environment

        B. As they assume that the home environment is of tremendous importance at that time

        C. At that time, the home environment suddenly assumes tremendous importance

        D. It is suddenly assumed that the home environment is extremely important at that time

Question 32. 

        A. sleeplessness or a desire to sleep more due to stress and emotional exhaustion

        B. sleeplessness caused by stress and emotional exhaustion leads to a desire to sleep more

        C. the fact of being sleepless or a desire to sleep more is caused by stress and emotional exhaustion

        D. stress and emotional exhaustion cause sleeplessness or a desire to sleep more