《跨文化交际》试题（附答案）

Paper 1 Communication Analysis

The following are three different cases of cross-cultural communication. In each of the cases there is something to be improved upon. Write an analysis on what is to be desired for more successful communication or cultural understanding.

Question 1 Case 1:

Chen Bing, a Chinese tour guide, is talking to a Canadian tourist, Luke Baines, who has no knowledge of Chinese at all. They are having dinner in a restaurant.

Chen: This is Beijing duck, one of China's most famous dishes. You'll love it!

Luke: No, thanks. I don't like duck. I prefer chicken.

Question 2 Case 2:

Feng Li and Tom have been working on a scientific experiment at a British university for some months. It has not been totally successful. They are discussing the situation in the laboratory. Feng Li: I don't know where it went wrong!

Tom, Don't feel so bad. Cheer up, you've done your job. Feng Li: But our experiment has turned out to be a failure. Tom: Relax for a couple of days. I'll face the music.

Feng Li: Tom, we are not playing children's games here. This is a scientific experiment.

Tom, I've never taken the experiment as child’ s play, and I'm playing the game.

Feng Li: You say you're playing the game! It's a rather important experiment!

Feng Li walks out of the Laboratory angrily. Tom is puzzled.

Question 3 Case 3:

This is a more complex situation where there are several things that require more informed cultural analysis. Find the cultural problems and explain the cultural differences. 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 exchange.

Jim had never been to China before. Li Zhen took him to a classical piano

concert performed by a famous Chinese pianist. During the performance people were talking and at one stage someone ran up onto the stage and presented the pianist with a bunch of flowers during the playing of a particular musical item. This happened several times during the evening. It also happened when two singers were on stage singing some songs that he was playing. Jim thought all these things quite strange. At the end of the performance the audience applauded the pianist and he applauded them. The audience began to leave while the pianist remained on the stage.

Paper 2 Vocabulary

Choose one word or expression from those in the box below to fill the gap in each of the sentences. Write the correct words in the spaces provided in your answer sheet. Do not change the forms of the words. Community white lies Dutch courage grey areas kin terms vocation below the belt buying a round live and let live trouble and strife foot the bill recreation 4. After twenty five years working in the bank she decided on a different .

5. Finally, after arguing about the meal for five minutes it was decided he would .

6. Despite the circumstances of the accident there were still some that needed explanation.

7. There are many different used when talking about people's relationships in China.

8. \ .\9. \ you know.\

10. People in English speaking countries also avoid losing face or hurting other people by telling .

11. It is difficult for foreigners to understand British pub culture, especially the system of which all members of the group are expected to join in.

12. It was a crushing blow to her, a hit when she received the news that her husband had left her for another woman.

13. In China there is a real sense of in social situations.

Paper 3 Translation

Translate the following passage from English into Chinese. Please write your translation on the answer sheet.

What do we mean by \is not a description of the popular trend toward talking about international things or going overseas. IC is actually an academic and applied discipline that has developed internationally since the 1950s. Sometimes called \communications\or \culture\, scholars most often use the prefix \with the word \to describe the interaction between cultures. On one level, IC is represented by culture studies, where we examine the political, economic and lifestyle systems of other countries. On another level, it is applied linguistics, where we seek to understand the relationship between language and culture. Many Chinese English teachers and professors have been interested in this aspect since the 1980s - How to teach English in ways that help students also learn the basic communication practices of Britain, the US or other English speaking countries.

But the discipline of Intercultural Communications is actually a broad and well-developed field of study. IC is an interdisciplinary application of fields like cultural anthropology, sociology, psychology (and social psychology), communication studies, applied linguistics and educational pedagogy. IC is a comprehensive attempt to understand all aspects of human cultures and how they interact with each other.

To understand Intercultural Communications, we seek to understand tradition and modernization, consistency and change. As we understand some of the ongoing national characteristics of a people, we can examine how this culture is seen from the outside, how it interacts with other cultures and how it is changing. In the last thirty odd years, scholars have developed both theoretical framework for comparing cultures and some practical dimensions for considering the similarity and differences between them. One level of intercultural comparison is Cultural Identity. Another level of comparison is Verbal Communication. Another area receiving much attention is Nonverbal Communication.

Paper 4 Reading

Passage 1 Questions 15-20

In recent years criticisms have been voiced concerning sexist bias in the English language. 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 women play a secondary role. Take