I have just arrived in a country where I don't know the language, where I have no family roots and where I find myself all alone. It may sound frightening. But let me tell you a little secret: it is not.

When you travel abroad by yourself for whatever reason-an exchange program, an internship（实习期的工作）, volunteering, or simply as a tourist-a new and fascinating world will open up for you, a world you would never be able to see if you just stayed at home.

People from a different country are not aliens. They are simply people like you who happened to be born in another place. They have pretty much the same wishes and worries as people from your own country.

I know that you see a lot of news on TV saying bad things people do all the time. Your family may have spent a great deal of time telling you not to trust strangers. However, when you travel alone you will realize that people are just as good as you. Everyone is just leading their lives, working, studying and having a good time with their friends. Most people will be happy to help you and get to know you.

Maybe in the past when you would need months to travel from one place to another, traveling could be expensive. Nowadays, the world is just so connected that it is perfectly possible to find cheap flights, accommodation for all budgets and cheap and quality food.

You will get lost, but it's fine! I can't even count how many times I didn't know where I was going or how to find the right direction. Everything looks great on Google maps, but sometimes your phone will die or your data will end. Just calm down. Go to a store or stop someone in the street and ask! Or simply walk around and be curious.

   Some years ago, I was hired by an American bank. I received a letter from the head of the Personnel Department that _______. "Dear John, I am quite pleased that you have decided to join us." That "quite" _______ me. I thought he was saying" We're _______ pleased you decided to join us although I _______ we had hired someone else. "Then I discovered that in American English "quite" sometimes means "very", _______ in British English it means "fairly".

So the _______ lesson about working in other countries is to _______ the language and by that I don't just _______ the words people speak. It contains _______ language, dress, manners, ideas and so on. The way people do things ________ many of the differences we see between cultures.

Some of these differences may be only on the surface-dress, food and hours of work-while ________ may be deeper and take longer to deal with. Mostly, it is just a question of getting used to the ________ and accepting them, like the climate, while we're getting on with business.

Some of the differences may be a（n）________. People are ________ polite; the service is better; you ask something to be done and it happens without having to ask again.________, other differences can be ________ punctuality（准时）.If you invite people to a party at 7 o'clock, your guests will consider it polite to ________ exactly on time in Germany, five minutes early in the American Midwest, an hour early in Japan, 15 minutes afterwards in the UK, up to an hour afterwards in Italy and some in the evening in Greece. I ________ not to use the word "late" because there is nothing wrong with the ________ people base their behavior on. It is simply ________ in their own country.

Prime Minister of the UK Theresa May's visit to China shows the more frequent communication between Britain and China. The cultural differences between the two countries have caused a heated 【小题1】（discuss）.

Table manners are the important process in our daily life. We get used to using chopsticks 【小题2】 Englishmen use knives and forks. It's impolite 【小题3】（laugh）when you are eating in Britain, which suggests you don't respect others. 【小题4】 the contrary, we laugh and talk during a meal. What's more, in Britain, people have to drive along the left side of the road, but traffic in our country 【小题5】（keep）to the right. Besides, for Chinese students, what they have experienced in studying is 【小题6】 organized learning way. Students are asked to follow a clear plan.【小题7】（compare） with Chinese education, British education is 【小题8】（flexibility） and imaginative. Students there are encouraged to discuss the subject they want to learn. Last but not least, in China, "thank you" is not frequently used between friends and family members. However, "thank you" is 【小题9】（wide） used in Britain.

There is no sense in debating 【小题10】is better. We owe these manners to the different history, but you should do as the Romans do.