题目内容：

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Have you ever lived abroad? When living overseas in a place where people speak a different language, 1.   can be difficult to make yourself understood even in 2.  （relative） simple but important areas of life, like shopping and getting around town. It can be really upset trying to ask for something in a store or to tell the taxi driver  3. you are going.

Sometimes you may be at a 4. (lose) as to what to do; sometimes you are certain that people understand you 5. are just pretending that they don’t, and other times they make a very  6. (consider) effort to communicate with you.

You should also be prepared to make changes in the diet and get accustomed to  7. local foods and the limited selection of familiar foods in the stores and restaurants. You may not have the nice variety of very large grocery stores you had back home.

Besides, you will experience some stress and anxiety 8.  you are living in a different culture with different values   9. your own. You may find that some of your cherished and deeply 10. (hold) values about life may not equally important to members of your new host culture.