【优质】跨文化交际课程练习

跨文化交际课程练习

Part One

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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

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

a. Africans

b. Americans

c. Chinese.

d. Koreans.

3. During World War II, British women saw American serviceman stationed in 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

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?

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.

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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 _______

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

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?

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 h

ave, 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.

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

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.

29.

__b__

is

the

neurological

process

by

which

people

become

aware

of

their

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