NEITHER THE CLERKS NOR THE DEPARTMENT MANAGER ARE BEING CONSIDE...

Câu 30.

Neither the clerks nor the department manager are being considered for promotion this time.

A.

nor

B.

department

C.

are

D.

for promotion

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate

the correct answer to each of the questions.

There are many different metaphors used to describe culture. My favorite one is the iceberg. I think, it

demonstrates so

vividly

what can happen to us if we believe only in the visible and ignore or

underestimate the invisible part. The hidden part of our culture is that part which we know instinctively

because we absorbed it from childhood on. It's handed down to us from generation to generation. We

could also say, it's the "thinking" and "feeling" part of culture: habits, assumptions, attitudes, desires,

values, tastes, etc.

Now, if we are in a new culture, our customary evaluations and interpretations are likely not to be on

target because we see everything through our own cultural glasses. Imagine yourself in a new city

trying to get around with a map from your own hometown. It wouldn't take long for you to get lost and

completely frustrated! When we experience an encounter in the new culture that puzzles us, the most

common reaction is to judge

it

through our own cultural glasses.

I want to propose an alternate approach to our initial gut reaction. Instead of immediately and

instinctively judging a situation through our own glasses, we might first just pause and notice what is

happening and then realize that this is a cultural learning situation. Remember the iceberg metaphor!

The new culture becomes your mirror that shows you a hidden part of your own culture. What an

opportunity for personal growth and new insight! You can compare two different approaches, that of

the new culture and of your own culture. This gives you a choice. Now you can decide what fits best

for you or even take the best from both sides.

(Source: https://english-magazine.org/)