HE’LL PHONE YOU AS SOON AS HE WILL GET HOME. DON’T WORRY.A B C DRE...

27. He’ll phone you as soon as he will get home. Don’t worry.A B C DRead the passage and choose the best answers.Psychologists tell us that there are four basic stages that human beings pass through whenthey enter and live in a new culture. This process, which helps us to deal with culture shock, isthe way our brain and our personality reacts to the strange new things we encounter when wemove from one culture to another.Culture begins with the “honeymoon stage”. This is the period of time when we first arrivein which everything about the new culture is trance and exciting.We may be suffering from “jet lag” but we are thrilled to be in the new environment, seeingnew sights, hearing new sounds and language, eating new kinds of food. This honeymoon stagecan last for quite a long time because we feel are involved in some kind of great adventure.Unfortunately, the second stage of culture shock can be more difficult. After we have settleddown into our new life, working or studying, buying groceries, doing laundry, or living with ahome-stay family, we can become very tired and begin to miss our homeland and our family,girlfriend or boyfriend, pets.All the little problems that everybody in life has seem to be much bigger and moredisturbing when you face them in a foreign culture. This period cultural adjustment can be verydifficult and lead to the new arrival rejecting or pulling away from the new culture. This“rejection stage” can be quite dangerous because the visitor may develop unhealthy habits(smoking and drinking too much, being too concerned over food or contact with people from thenew culture). This stage is considered a crisis in the process of cultural adjustment and manypeople choose to go back to their homeland or spend all their time with people from their ownculture speaking their native language.The third stage of culture shock is called the “ adjustment stage”. This is when you begin torealize that things are not so bad in the host culture. Your sense of humor usually by learning totake care of yourself in the new place. Things are still difficult, but you are now are now asurvivor!The fourth stage can be called “at ease at last “. Now you feel quite comfortable in your newsurroundings. You can cope with most problems that occur. You may still have problems with thelanguage, but you know you are strong enough to deal with them. If you meet someone from yourcountry who has just arrived, you can be the expert on life in the new culture and help them todeal with their culture shock.There is a fifth stage of culture shock “. Surprisingly, this occurs when you go back to yournative culture and you have changed and that things there have changed while you have beenaway. Now you feel a little uncomfortable back home. Life is a struggle!