Passage 2 Everycountry tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and topraise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. Andunfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countriesis often a distorted ( 曲解 ) one. Here is agreat argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It isonly by traveling in, or living in a county and getting to know its inhabitantsand their language that one can find out what a country and its people arereally like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequentlyturns out to be true from the second-hand information gathered from othersources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such differentpeople from ourselves are not very different after all! Differencesbetween peoples do of course, exist and, one hopes, will always continue to doso. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalitiesbehave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approachingthis state of affairs. With the much greater rapidity and ease of travel, theremight seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europeis concerned. However this may be, at least the greater ease of travel todayhas revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchmanor German is not some different kind of animal from themselves. 26. Every country criticizes ways of lifein other countries because they are _______. A.distorted B. normal C. similar to each other D. different from its own 27. One who travels in a foreign countryand learns its language will ______. A.find out what its people are like B. argue in favor of thiscountry and the language C.know the country and its people better D. like its inhabitants and their language 28. The knowledge one gains by traveling ina foreign county is often _______. A.from second-hand information B. gathered from othersources than from its inhabitants C.gained from the arguments about the country D. different from what one had before the travel 29. Differences between peoples ________. A.will gradually disappear because of ease of travel B.do exist even though different nationalities behave exactly alike C.will always continue to exist and the world will be a dull place D.will not exist as one hopes 30. The underlined word “However” mostprobably means _________. A. somewhat B. by whatever means C. anyhow D. no matter what