跨文化交际课程练习
Part One. Directions: Select the best answer from the four choices given. There is ONE best answer for each item. 20%
1. When you enter an American home and hear \"Let me take your coat\know that _____
a. it's extremely hot indoors.
b. your coat must be wet.
c. wearing a coat indoors is uncomfortable.
d. it's an American custom to take off one's coat in this situation.
2. The word \"workaholic\" is often used to refer to ______
a. Africans b. Americans c. Chinese. d. Koreans.
3. During World War II, British women saw American serviceman stationed in
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England as immoral and lustful. Simultaneously, American servicemen found English girls to be wanton and without morals. In fact, it is cultural differences in role of____ that caused social misperception.
a. creating harmonious relationship b. moderating sex behavior
c. cultivating mutual affection d. producing something new
4.When you want to learn about someone's family relationship with another person, you may ask _______
a. Are you relatives? b. Are you family members?
c. How are you called? d. How are you related?
5. When you happen to be among a group of strangers in a party, you may make someone's acquaintance by saying ________
a. May I know your name? b. May I introduce myself?
c. May I have your business card? d. May I make friends with you?
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6. When two strangers are introduced to each other in the U.S., they usually start what is called _______
a. free talk. b. small talk. c. big talk. d. introductory talk.
7. When you see an American friend having dinner, you can greet him by saying __________
a. Hello. Have a nice dinner. b. So, you're having dinner.
c. How much do you have for dinner? d. How do you enjoy it ?
8. When someone compliments you on the watch you are wearing, you should, in the United States, _________
a. say “Oh, this cheap thing? It's not worth much.” b. give it to him.
c. say “Would you like to have it?” d. say “Thanks” and smile.
9. When an English woman tells you her real age, you can say _______
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a. That's what I guess.
b. No , no. You really are much younger than your age.
c. That's impossible.
d. No, really you don't look it.
10. A: What kind of material do you want me to bring?
B: We are in need of many kinds of material.
B' s response would be regarded by Americans as _______
a. something urgent. b. too greedy.
c. too generous. d. insufficient information.
11. Never trust a person who can’t look you in the eyes tells us that in conversation, an Englishman or American shows that he is listening attentively by _______
a. staring at the other person’s eyes. b. nodding all the time
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c. looking at the other person’s eyes. d. saying hmm all the time
12. When a newly-arrived American professor has just conducted his first class with Chinese students, you as an administrator, can greet him by saying ______
a. “You must be tired.”
b. “How do you like your students?”
c. “Are Chinese students the same as American students?”
d. “Are they happy with your teaching?”
13. “Separate checks?” Asked by a waiter or waitress in the united states means _____
a. Shall I provide separate plates for different people?
b. Shall I provide different food for different people?
c. Shall I put the same amount of sugar into separate glasses of coffee?
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d. Shall I put this all on one check or will you all pay separately?
14. In sum, the English language and thought patterns of English speakers reflect ___
a. relativism. b. group-orientation
c. collectivism. d. ego-centrism
15. The study of facial expressions, body movements, gestures and the like is called _
a. proteomics. b. chronemics. c. oculesics. d. kinesics
16. Nikita Khrushchev, the irrepressible leader of the U. S. S. R in the late fifties and early sixties, offended many Americans by raising his clasped hands in a sort of handshake over his head during his visit to the United States, because this gesture, in the United States, is the sign of _______
a. negotiation between rivals.
b. friendship and mutual understanding.
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c. victory after a boxer has defeated his opponent.
d. greeting made by a visitor to native people.
17. When an American friend compliments you on what you have, you should not say “do you really like it? Just take it,” because ________
a. he would hate to be considered greedy if he really accepted it.
b. what you have might be so expensive that he dares not take it.
c. it could be just a compliment and he might have made a slip of the tongue.
d. what you have might be offensive to the people from his culture.
18. As Americans value individualism, they maintain _______
a. a complementary interpersonal relationship.
b. a symmetrical interpersonal relationship.
c. a vertical horizontal interpersonal relationships.
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d. a dependent interpersonal relationships.
19. Culture is rather than static
a. dynamic. b. relative. c. absolute. d. stagnant.
20. It is generally acknowledged that communicative competence was coined by ____
a. Brian Spitzberg. b. Edward Hall
c. Noam Chomsky. d. Dell Hymes
Part Two. Directions: Complete each of the following sentences with an appropriate word chosen from those given below. 20%
A.
a. Channel b. Sender c. Receiver d. Intercultural communication
e. Subculture
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21. __b___ refers to the person who transmits a message
22. __a___ is the method used to deliver a message.
23. __c___ is any person who notices and gives some meaning to a message
24. __d___ is communication between people whose cultural perception and symbol system are distinct enough to alter the communication event.
25. __e___ refers to a culture that exists within dominant culture, and is often based on economic or social class, ethnicity, race, or geographic region.
B. a. perception b. Sensation c. Interpretation d. Selection e. Needs
26. __c__refers to attaching meaning to sense data
27. __e__ affect what people are more likely to attend to
28. Human perception is usually thought of as a three-step process of __d__, organization, and interpretation.
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29. __b__ is the neurological process by which people become aware of their environment.
30. __a___ involves higher-order cognition in the interpretation of the sensory information.
Part three. Directions: In this part, you will read some short statement. Decide whether the statements are true or false and write T for TRUE and F for FALSE. 40%
31. Today in the United States it is not unusual for children to address their parents and even grandparents by their first names. （ ）t
32. To keep the ball rolling means to continue playing basketball. （ ）f
33. Mind your please-and thank you are taught to American children. （ ）t
34. When an American friend spends a lot of time doing you a favor, you should thank him by saying I’m sorry to have wasted so much of your time. （ ）f
35. It is a compliment to tell an American pregnant woman that she is most likely to have a baby son. （ ）f
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36. American do not consider excessive modesty as a virtue. （ ）t
37. Englishmen often start with an explanation for a request before they make clear the request itself. （ ）f
38. According to Eric Partridge, economy is also a reason for English preference for nouns to verbs. （ ）t
39. Americans usually prefer to pursue their social life under conditions that minimize incurring social obligations. （ ）t
40. There is no face-to-face interaction without feedback. （ ）t
41. In China. Visitors’ “dropping by” is generally preferred to calling friends on the telephone before visiting them. （ ）f
42. When you communicate with your American friends. Mr. would sound too formal. （ ）t
43. In English-speaking countries you usually first introduce a man to a woman, not the other way round. （ ）t
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44. By tradition. Americans attach greater importance to promptness in social events than the Chinese. （ ）t
45. The Chinese way of showing concern for people is sometimes misunderstood by Americans as teaching one’s grandmother how to suck eggs. （ t ）
46. Sometimes an Englishman may offer help merely as a gesture of politeness. In this case, you can say something like oh! Please don’t bother. （ ）t
47. If you worked as a secretary in an American company , and one day your boss, seeing you work very late, said to you Thanks a lot. That’s a great help, you could reply it’s my duty. （ ）f
48. In English-speaking countries, physical contact is generally avoided in conversation among ordinary friends or acquaintances. （ ）t
49. When you want to learn about an American’s marital status, you can ask how come you’re still single ?（ ）f
50. Communication can be appropriate and ineffective. （ ）t
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51. Whenever someone responds to the behavior or the behavior of another person, communication has taken place. （ ）t
52. Some anthropologists refer to custom, rituals and, in a word, the total life way of a people as popular culture. （ ）f
53. With a man-centered view, the Chinese emphasize collectivism.（ ）f
54. In the U.S. it is a compliment to tell someone hat he or she has put on some weight.（ ）f
55. In the United states, the extended family, rather than the nuclear family, is considered the family. （ ）f
56. North Americans prefer to sit where they are side-by-side to one another. （ ）f
57. It is a Chinese way of showing hospitality to insist on eople accepting offers of drinks and cigarettes. （ ）t
58. Americans expect an invitation to a dinner or a request for a date or for any other
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social event to be offered reasonably far in advance. （ ）t
59. Stereotyping has its practical uses and limitations, because it helps us better understand what appears to be a mess and at the same time any generalization is very often an overgeneralization. （ ）t
60. When you want to learn about an American’s political stand, you can ask are you a republican or a democrat? （ ）f
Part four: Questions and Answers. In this part, you are required to give a brief explanation to the question. 20%
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