Directions: Complete the following passage by using ONE word that best fits the context.
Scholars and researchers have tried to discover what personality characteristics go along with success in intercultural experiences. Their findings have often been unclear or incomplete. 48 three characteristics stand out in their reports: patience, a sense of humor, and the awareness of being unclear.
Patience, of course, is the ability to keep calm even 49 things do not go as one wants them to, or hopes they will, 50 has even been sure they will. A person with a sense of humor is 51 likely to take things too seriously and more ready to see the humor in his own reactions than a humorless person. “The awareness of being unclear” is 52 more difficult concept than patience or a sense of humor. Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear to the newcomers. That is, 53 do not know what is happening in the situation. Perhaps they do not understand the local language well enough, or they do not know 54 some system or organization works, or they can’t be sure of different people’ s roles in what is going 55 .