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Civil Service Reviewer 2 Part 1
CULTURE SHOCK
1. Antropologist have coined the term “cultures shock” to describe the effect that immersion
in the strange culture 1____
1. has upon the visitor who is unprepared
2. is having on the unprepared visitor
3. has on the unprepared visitor
4. has in the unprepared visitor
5. have on the unprepared visitor
2. It is what happens when familiar psychological Clues that help an individual to function in Society are suddenly withdrawn and ___2____ That are alien and incomprehensible.
1. is replaced by new ones
2. were replaced by new ones
3. are being replaced with new ones
4. replaced by new ones
5. to be replaced by new ones
But most travelers ____3____ that the culture
1. have the comforting knowledge
2. have the comfortable knowledge
3. have the knowledge that is comforting
4. are comforted through the knowledge
5. find knowledge comforting
Will I be there ____4____. The victim of future
1. returning to them
2. to return back to
3. when they return back
4. to return to
5. waiting for their return
____5____ rate of change within a society.
1. produced from the great accelerated
2. produced of the greatly accelearated
3. a product produced by the greatly accelerated
4. a product of the greatly accelerated
5. a product of the great accelerated
____6____ the superimosition of a new culture
1. It rises from
2. It arose from
3. It arises from
4. It has risen from
5. It has been rising from
But its impact is ____7____
1. very worse
2. far worse
3. the worst
4. far worst
5. surely worst
Take an individual out of his own culture And ____8____ in an environment sharply different From his own,
1. set him down with suddenness
2. seat himself down suddenly
3. sat down suddenly
4. set him down suddenly
5. suddenly sit him down
then cut him off ____9____ to a more familiar social landscape, and the dislocation he suffers is double sever.
1. from any hope of retreat
2. from no hope of retreat
3. with any hope of retreating
4. with no hope to retreat
5. from having any hope of retreat
Moreover, if this new culture is itself in constant turmoil, and if worse yet ____10¬____ the sense
of orientation will still be further intensified
1. their values are incessantly changed
2. its values are changed incessantly
3. the values it has are not changed incessantly
4. its values are incessant changes
5. its values are incessantly changing
MASS COMMUNICATION MEDIUM
Selection Options
A mass communication medium like television, For example, ____1____ a country fragmented By tribal.
1. can be use to help in the unification
2. is of use for helping to unity
3. can be used for helping in unifying
4. can be used to help unify
5. has for its use to help unify
loyalties, customs, culture or simple geographic barriers, Programs ____2____ about national purposes and
1. that inform the people
2. that gave information to the people
3. which purpose is to inform the people
4. that supply the people with information
5. which aims to inform the people
national problems might help unite the people and put damper on the divisive forces ____3____
1. busily at work
2. of work in the country
3. at work in the country
4. which are at work in the country
5. that help work in the country
A national mass communication television network also can help ____4____. On the other hand modes of
1. the language standardization of the country
2. standardizing the language of the country
3. the country’s standardization of language
4. in standardizing the language in the country
5. standardize language in the country
personal communication ____5____ the means
1. can balance neatly out
2. neatly balances out
3. neatly balance out
4. is neatly balancing out
5. serve to neatly balance out
of people, each person talking on the telephone_____6____ his individual traits and identify, the things that make him unique as a person
1. could still retained
2. is able to retain still
3. has the ability to retain
4. is still retaining
5. can still retain
in developing countries, establishing such balance should be an important consideration. If we can be sure of one thing, it is that communications in the new nations ____7____ did in the
1. will not evolve exactly as they
2. will not evolve exactly like they¬¬¬¬
3. are not to evolve exactly as they
4. do not evolve as they exactly
5. have not evolve exactly as they
United States and other Western nations. The older nations invested in the telegraph, in the telephone, and in television in a random piece-meal fashion without knowing where their steps would lead them, the newer nations ____8____
1. should make with ability
2. will have the ability to make
3. will be in certain position to make
4. can be able to make
5. will be able to make
a more considered, conscious choice. Benefiting by the past mistakes of the older nations, today’s new nations ____9____ in the field of communications.
1. are facing up a unique opportunity
2. face a unique opportunity
3. have to face a unique opportunity
4. face a more unique opportunity
5. still face a most unique opportunity
In fact, they ____10____ some of the most advance And most sophisticated communications System in the world.
1. might be able to develop
2. might develop
3. can, with ability
4. might be in a position to develop
5. should developed
VOCABULARY
1. ABRADES - to wear away by friction; to wear down in spirit; irritate
2. ACQUESCED - concerted; agreed; assented; acceded; accepted; complied
3. ANONYMITY - of unknown or undeclared origin or authorship
4. ASTOUNDED - amazed; shocked; alarmed
5. DETERIOUS (deteriorate) – to impair; to grow; worse/to frighten; to turn aside; discourage or
prevent from aching (as by fear); inhibit
6. DURESS - compulsion by threat; restraint
7. FIDGET (ED) - restlessness; to move about restlessly
8. GARB - a dress; to clothe; style of dress; outward form; appearance
9. IMMOLATE - to kill as a sacrificial victim
10. JEOPARDY - hazard; danger; peril; risk; exposure to death, loss, or injury
11. LISTLESS (LY) - languid; inattentive; spiritless
12. LUGURBRIOUS - sorrowful; mournful often to an exaggerated degree
13. MILIEU - environment setting; status
14. PINNACLE - a thin turret; a spire or high peak; acme turret-a small tower
15. POSIT - to assume the existence of; postulate – to assume as true
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