《跨文化交际》试卷8.doc

绍兴托普信息职业技术学院考试试卷?跨文化交际?考试时间 120分 钟 考试方式 闭 卷 成 绩 专 业 学 号八位 姓 名 本卷适用班级： 班Part I Language Appropriacy and Accuracy. (3x10=30)Instructions: There are altogether 10 statements or questions below. You are offered four choices marked with A, B, C and D for each statement or question. Choose the most appropriate one and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1. Dont behave rudely with me, young man. Im sorry. I didnt mean to offend you.A. freak outB. hit it offC. go bananasD. come it2. No wonder he is so sad these days. His grandfather pushed up the daisies a week ago.A. passed awayB. relieved himselfC. was not all thereD. was in a family way3. Nobody can persuade him to do that. He is very stubborn.A. as stubborn as a muleB. as stubborn as a cowC. as stubborn as a gooseD. as stubborn as a duck4. He tried to answer the teachers questions, but he was out in the left field.A. was not able to do soB. gave a totally wrong answer which had no relevance to the teachers questionC. could not express himself completelyD. had a soar throat and could not speak5. Its no use worrying about a remote happening.A. Dont count your chickens before they are hatched.B. Dont have too many irons in the fire.C. Dont change horse in mid-stream.D. Dont cross the bridge till you get to it.6.In different culture, the ways of thought may differ. Americans are_, stressing the need for action. However French are _, playing great weight on careful thought and logic.A. psychomotor-oriented, affective-orientedB. psychomotor-oriented, cognitive-orientedC. affective-oriented, cognitive-orientedD. affective-oriented, psychomotor-oriented7. Which one in the following is Not an idiomatic expression?A. as cunning as a foxB. as wise as a monkeyC. as blind as a batD. as majestic as a lion8. We know that the dog is regarded as mans best friend in the West, but sometimes dogs also have negative associations, such as " _ ".A. A top dogB. Get the dogC. He worked like a dogD. Lead a dogs life9. The uncle encouraged the boy not to be _ saying that he should fight back the bully.A. as slippery as an eelB. as timid as a hareC. as meek as a lambD. as majestic as a lion10. The new office block has become an expensive white elephant.A. a thing that is rather large and eye-catchingB. a thing that is useless and expensive to maintainC. a value gift that shouldnt be given awayD. a thing whose symbolic meaning is profound and far-reachingPart II Case Analysis (You are required to state cultural phenomenon in each case). (10×2=20)Case 1 A westerner invited a Chinese girl to have lunch and take a tour around the British Parliament. In fact, the girl didn't have the lunch just because when the westerner asked her "Are you hungry?" The girl answered no. Then they didn't have lunch together.Case 2In India, there are elaborate rules about how closely members of each caste may approach other castes, and Arabs of the same sex do stand much closer than North Americans. North Americans in an elevator maintain personal space if the physical space permits it. An Arab entering an elevator may stand right next to another person and be touching even though no one else is in the elevator.Part III Reading Comprehension (4x5=20) Time, as we know it, is a very recent invention. The modern time sense is hardly older than the United States. It is a byproduct of industrialismTime is our tyrant. We are chronically aware of the moving minute hand, even of the moving second hand. We have to be. There are trains to be caught, clocks to be punched, tasks to be done in specified periods, records to be broken by fractions of a second, machines that set the pace and have to be kept up with. Our consciousness of the smallest units of time is now acute. To us, for example, the moment 8:17 a.m. means somethingsomething very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant as without significancedid not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stephenson were part inventors of time.Another timeemphasizing entity is the factory and its dependent, the office. Factories exist for the purpose of getting certain quantities of goods made in a certain time. The old artisan worked as it suited him; with the result that consumers generally had to wait for the goods they had ordered from him. The factory is a device for making workmen hurry. The machine revolves so often each minute; so many movements have to be made, so many pieces produced each hour. Result: the factory worker (and the same is true of the office worker) is compelled to know time in its smallest fractions. In the handwork age there was no such compulsion to be aware of minutes and seconds.Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us into some corner of the world where people are not interested in minutes and seconds. The unpunctuality of the Orient, for example, is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed mealtimes and regular train services. For a modern American or Englishman, waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accepts the blank hours with resignation, even with satisfaction. He has not lost the fine art of doing nothing. Our notion of time as a collection of minutes, each of which must be filled with some business or amusement, is wholly alien to the Oriental, just as it was wholly alien to the Greek. For the man who lives in a pre-industrial world, time moves at a slow and easy pace; he does not care about each minute, for the good reason that he has not been made conscious of the existence of minute. Questions:1. Where did the western time sense come from according to the passage?2. According to Huxley, whats the difference in the time sense of the East and the West? Do you agree?3. Why did the author say that Watt and Stephenson were part inventors of time?4. Do you think that the Chinese peoples time sense has changed? If yes, what are the manifestations and why? 5. Why does the author say that “for a modern American or Englishman, waiting is a psychological torture?Part IV Composition. You are required to write a composition about 120-150 words entitled with Similarities and Differences Between English and Chinese Invitations.(30x1=30)绍兴托普信息职业技术学院考试试卷?跨文化交际?答题卷考试时间 120分 钟 考试方式 闭 卷 成 绩 专 业 学 号八位 _ 姓 名 Part I Language Appropriacy and Accuracy. (3x10=30)1 _2 _ 3_ 4_ 5_ 6 _ 7_ 8_ 9_ 10_Part II Case Analysis (You are required to state cultural phenomenon in each case). (10×2=20)1、2、Part III Reading Comprehension (4x5=20) 1. Where did the western time sense come from according to the passage?2. According to Huxley, whats the difference in the time sense of the East and the West? Do you agree?3. Why did the author say that Watt and Stephenson were part inventors of time?4. Do you think that the Chinese peoples time sense has changed? If yes, what are the manifestations and why? 5. Why does the author say that “for a modern American or Englishman, waiting is a psychological torture?Part IV Composition. You are required to write a composition about 120-150 words entitled with Similarities and Differences Between English and Chinese Invitations. (30x1=30)