《跨文化交际》习题附答案

1、精心整理跨文化交际试题（附答案）Paper 1 Communi cati on An alysisThe followi ng are three differe nt cases of cross-cultural com muni catio n. In each of the cases there is someth ing to be improved upon. Write an an alysis on what is to be desired for more successful com muni cati on or cultural un dersta ndin g.?

2、Questi on 1Case 1:Chen Bing, a Chinese tour guide, is talking to a Canadian tourist, Luke Baines, who has no kno wledge of Chi nese at all. They are hav ing dinner in a restaura nt.Chen: This is Beiji ng duck, one of Chin as most famous dishes. Youll love it!Luke: No, tha nks. I dont like duck. I pr

3、efer chicke n.?Questi on 2Case 2:Feng Li and Tom have been working on a scientific experiment at a British university for some mon ths. It has not bee n totally successful. They are discuss ing the situati on in the laboratory.Feng Li: I dont know where it went wrong!Tom, Dont feel so bad. Cheer up,

4、 youve done your job.Feng Li: But our experime nt has tur ned out to be a failure.Tom: Relax for a couple of days. I ll face the music.Feng Li: Tom, we are not playing childrens games here. This is a scientific experiment.Tom, Ive n ever take n the experime nt as child s play, and rm playi ng the ga

5、me.Feng Li: You say youre playing the game! Its a rather important experiment!Feng Li walks out of the Laboratory an grily. Tom is puzzled.?Questi on 3Case 3:This is a more complex situatio n where there are several thi ngs that require more in formed cultural an alysis. Fi nd the cultural problems

6、and explai n the cultural differe nces. Jim and Li Zhen were students together at Leeds University in Britain. A year later, after graduating, Jim went to Shanghai as a visiting scholar on a year s exchaiJim had n ever bee n to China before. Li Zhen took him to a classical pia no con cert performed

7、by a famous Chin ese pia ni st. During the performa nee people were talki ng and at one stage some one ran up onto the stage and prese nted the pia nist with a bunch of flowers during the playing of a particular musical item. This happened several times duri ng the eve nin g. It also happe ned whe n

8、 two sin gers were on stage singing some songs that he was play ing. Jim thought all these thi ngs quite stra nge. At the end of the精心整理精心整理performa nee the audie nee applauded the pia nist and he applauded them. The audie nee bega n to leave while the pia nist rema ined on the stage.?Paper 2 Vocabu

9、laryChoose one word or expressi on from those in the box below to fill the gap in each of the senten ces. Write the correct words in the spaces provided in your an swer sheet. Do not change the forms of the words. ?Commu nitywhite liesDutch couragegrey areaskin termsvocatio nbelow the beltbuying a r

10、oundlive and let live trouble and strife foot the billrecreati on、:.一丨 I” I i I4. After twenty five years work ing in the bank she decided on a differe nt5. Fin ally, after arguing about the meal for five minu tes it was decided hewould .6. Despite the circumstances of the accident there were still

11、some that neededexpla nati on.7. There are many differe nt used whe n talki ng about peoples relati on ships inChi na.8. Mike! Meet Jane, the ;:_J9. Ok, the argume nt is over. Lets forget it, you kno w.10. People in En glish speak ing coun tries also avoid los ing face or hurt ing other people bytel

12、ling11. It is difficult for foreigners to understand British pub culture, especially the system of which all members of the group are expected to joi n in.12. It was a crushing blow to her, a hit when she received the news that herhusba nd had left her for ano ther woma n.13. In China there is a rea

13、l sense of in social situations.?Paper 3 Tran slati on?Tran slate the followi ng passage from En glish into Chin ese. Please write your tran slati on on the an swer sheet.?What do we mean by Intercultural Communications or IC? This is not a description of the popular trend toward talking about inter

14、national things or going overseas. IC is actually an academic and applied discipli ne that has developed intern ati on ally si nce the 1950s. Sometimes called cross-cultural com muni cati ons or comparative culture , scholars most often use the prefix inter with the word精心整理精心整理cultural to describe

15、the interaction between cultures. On one level, IC is represented by culture studies, where we exam ine the political, econo mic and lifestyle systems of other countries. On another level, it is applied linguistics, where we seek to understand the relati on ship betwee n Ian guage and culture. Many

16、Chin ese En glish teachers and professors have bee n in terested in this aspect since the 1980s - How to teach En glish in ways that help stude nts also lear n the basic com muni cati on practices of Britai n, the US or other En glish speak ing coun tries.?But the discipline of Intercultural Communi

17、cations is actually a broad and well-developed field of study. IC is an interdisciplinary application of fields like cultural an thropology, sociology, psychology (and social psychology), com muni cati on studies, applied linguistics and educational pedagogy. IC is a comprehensive attempt to un ders

18、ta nd all aspects of huma n cultures and how they in teract with each other.?To un dersta nd In tercultural Communi cati ons, we seek to un dersta nd traditi on and moder ni zati on, con siste ncy and cha nge. As we un dersta nd some of the ongoing n atio nal characteristics of a people, we can exam

19、ine how this culture is seen from the outside, how it in teracts with other cultures and how it is cha nging. In the last thirty odd years, scholars have developed both theoretical framework for compari ng cultures and some practical dime nsions for con sideri ng the similarity and differe nces betw

20、ee n them. One level of intercultural comparison is Cultural Identity. Another level of comparison is Verbal Com mun icatio n. Ano ther area receivi ng much atte ntio n is Nonv erbal Com mun icatio n.?Paper 4 Readi ng Passage 1 Questio ns 15-20In recent years criticisms have been voiced concerning s

21、exist bias in the English Ianguage. It has been argued that some of the vocabulary and grammar we use reflects and reinforces a traditional view of the world as one in which men are dominant and wome n play a sec on dary role. Take the word chairma n for example. While this can in fact apply to peop

22、le of both sexes, it appears to some people to be male-oriented as it ends in ma n. In the past people tak ing the role of chairma n were exclusively male and the word was obviously origi nally a compo und of chair and ma n. Many En glish speakers, however, have ceased to view this word as a compoun

23、d and no more feel it to be composed of these two un its, tha n they perceive cupboard to be a composite of cup and board. I n additi on the con ti nued use of chairma n might be defe nded on the grounds that the final syllable is pronounced /mn/ rather than /mn/, just like the final syllable of wom

24、a n. Despite such con siderati ons other speakers take a con trary view and are sensitive to the components of which it is made up. They clearly perceive it as a title that perpetuates traditi onal ideas about the place of wome n in society. For this reas on they seek to replace it with neutral term

25、s such as chairperson or chair, so that it is now possible to ask questio ns such as; Who is chair of the committee?Other cha nges advocated in clude the replaceme nt of words such as postma n, firema n and policema n with more clearly n eutral terms such as postal worker,fire-fighter and police off

26、icer . There is, however, continuing controversy about h(such Ian guage cha nges should go. Should cha nges be con sidered for traditi onal idioms as man in the street and titles such as Peking Man? What about those words where the male meaning of ma n is no Ion ger dominant, such as ma nhan dle?To

27、the extent that changes have taken place, they have done so more in the writte n Ian guage and formal pronoun ceme nts tha n in everyday speech. You would be quite likely to read in the paper that Postal workers are to receive a pay in crease. But Has the postma n bee n? would be most likely to be h

28、eard in in formal conv ersatio n. Here postman remaifirmly entrenched in popular usage.The exte nt to which Ian guage reflects and shapes attitudes and behaviors is a matter of conjecture. Chin ese, Japa nese, Persia n and Turkish do not make the kinds of sex distinctions English makes through its s

29、ystem of pronouns, but it would be difficult to maintain that males who speak these Ian guages are less sexist tha n males who speak En glish!?Answer the following questions according to the above text: ?15. The gen eral use of the word ma n added to En glish words in dicates.A. sexual feeli ngsB. s

30、exual freedomC. sexist ideasD. sexist bias .16. Gen erally where Ian guage and sex are concerned in Brita inA. all people agree cha nge is n eededB. some people agree cha nge is n eededC. people cant make up their minds on the issueD. people think the issue is uni mporta nt and not serious17. What e

31、xample does the author give to support a defense of the word chairman?18. What does the author argue for whe n the example ma nhan dle is give n?19. What does the author have to say about the impact of Ian guage cha nges?20. What is the authors argument in the final paragraph? Passage 2 Questio ns 2

32、1-27Can Computers Do a Better Job Rat ing Stocks?Since May, Charles Schwab has been providing stock ratings to clients using a computerized system that it says tries to remove huma n bias.In particular, Schwab says, its system is meant to avoid the conflicts of interest that have plagued traditi ona

33、l brokerage firms, whose research an alysts have ofte n acted as cheerleaders for compa nies being courted by their inv estme nt ban kers.We believe that our sin gle biggest adva ntage is our objectivity, said Jerry Chafk in, Schwabs executive vice preside nt for inv estme nt advice and products. Wh

34、ile the development of the methodology is human, the analysis is being performed systematically and automatically.Though Schwab is perhaps the most pro minent finan cial services compa ny to use a computer-drive n rati ng system, several others, in clud ing Value Line and Zacks Inv estme nt Research

35、, pick stocks in a similar way.The various systems produce very differe nt rati ngs of in dividual stocks, and their ability to outperform a market index fund over time has not been proved conclusively. The verdict is still out as to whether computers do it better than people. What is clear, though,

36、 is that the major computerized systems hand out fewer positive stock rat ings tha n do Wall Street an alysts, who seem to give them out very gen erously.People who run computerized selecti on systems criticize traditi onal Wall Street an alysis as hav ing in stitutio nal con flicts of in terest, as

37、 well as in dividual bias. I am very suspicious about opinions and judgme nts and emotio ns by huma ns in in dividual stock selection, said Samuel Eisenstadt, Value Lines research director.However, the computer-drive n stock-pick ing systems must rely on the selecti on criteria of their creators. Al

38、l try to isolate factors that their developers believe have the greatest ability to predict share prices. Most models compare a compa ny9s historical ear nings growth with that of other compa ni es. And many track the exte nt to which ear nings have surprised an alysts.Many firms use their computer-

39、based stock-rat ing systems as market ing tools.The desig ners of these systems say they should be judged on how a group of stocks performs over time. But all the systems assume, as do stock analysts on Wall Street, that superior research, by huma ns, and an alysis can select a group of stocks that

40、will outperform the market averages over the long run.Market an alysts say it is too soon to assess the fledgli ng Schwab system or new models, like Microsofts year-old Stock-Scouter?Mark the following statements True (T) / False (F) / Not Given (NG) according to the in formatio n provided in the te

41、xt.?Write T, or F or NG on your answer sheet in the spaces provided for questions.?21. Charles Schwab is a computer compa ny.22. The method of operation by Schwab is done automatically.23. Value Li ne and Zacks have similar operati ng methods to Schwab.24. There is no con clusive proof that computer

42、s perform better tha n huma ns.25. Wall Street an alysts are gen erous in rati ng stocks.26. Huma n beings make value judgme nts accord ing to the research director of Value Li ne.27. An alysts are surprised at the growth rate of share prices.答案及评分标准？Paper 1: Communi catio n An alysis The follow ing points should be covered in the an alysis. Award one point for each of the points covered (un derl in ed). Paper 2: Vocabulary One point for each item. An swers must be the same as the key.4. vocati on5. foot the bill6. grey areas8. trouble and strife10. white lies12. below the beltPape