2021同等学力【英语】考前41天必练(4)

Phrases：：

A. we are 1 to get similar and very uninformative answers

B. we 2 to norms so readily

C. that is 3 in a given situation

If we ask Americans why they eat with knives and forks, or why their men wear pants instead

of skirts or why they may be married to only one person at a time, 4 because it’s right, because

that’s the way it’s done, because it’s the custom or even I don’t know. The reason for these and

countless other patterns of social behavior is that they are controlled by social norms shared rules

or guide lines which prescribe the behavior 5 . Norms define how people ought to behave under

particular circumstances in a particular society. In a word, 6 that we are hardly aware they exist.