Text III Scholars and researchers have tried to discover what personality characteristics go along with success in living in another country. Although many experiments have been done, the findings have always been unclear or incomplete. It might be a tough question for them, but three characteristics stand out in the scholars’ reports: patience, a sense of humor, and the awareness of being unclear. Patience, of course, is the ability to keep calm even when things do not go as one wants them to, or hopes they will, or has ever been sure they will. It is the characteristic that may help one go on with the thing he or she is researching. Impatience sometimes brings improvements in relations with other people, but usually it does not. It may put off the thing one is going on. Next, a person with a sense of humor is less likely to take things too seriously and more ready to see the humor in her own relations than is a humorless person. This characteristic helps one deal with the problem in his research or study. When one has to be faced with some trouble, a humorous person is more likely to handle it in a more relaxed and correct way. Finally, “the awareness of being unclear” is an even more difficult concept than patience or a sense of humor and should be focused on. Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear. That is, they do not know what is happening in the situation. Perhaps they do not understand the local language well enough, or they do not know how some system or organization works, or they can’t be sure of different people’s roles in what is going on. “It is like I just got here from the moon.” A Chinese graduate student who had just arrived in the United States said, “Things are just so different here.” 11. The passage mainly tells us ___________.
A、that it’s not easy to travel abroad
B、that humor is very important in communication
C、of some skills in dealing with foreigners
D、of three main characteristics useful in communicating with foreigners