(完整word版)跨文化交际考试题型

Intercultural communication paper

I.Fill in the blanks to make the statements complete (25%)

（共8小题，25个空格，每空1分）

1.There are roughly five types of communication: human communication, （）

communication, human-animal communication, human-machine communication and machine-to-machine communication.

2.Past-oriented people tend to believe tradition is important. Present-oriented cultures

maintain that the moment is the most significant. If you tend to look to the future and make plans, you are future-oriented. Generally speaking, Chinese are accepted as past-oriented while （）are thought to be future-oriented.

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II.Choose one correct answer from the four choices （共20个单选，每个1分，共20分）

6.Socrates together with __________ and Aristotle are thought to be the founder of

Western philosophy. Their emphasis is on self instead of on nature. From Socrates’ time, there is division from nature and man.

A. Descartes

B. Hegal

C. Plato

D. Archimedes

7.The Chinese Three Character Classics orients human nature as ________.

A. good but corruptible

B. evil but perfectible

C . mixture of good and evil D. evil and corruptible

11. The ______ meditation is the most abstract of all because it is the thinking of thinking.

Thinking becomes the subject of its own investigation.

A. Hindu

B. Chinese

C. Greek

D. Japanese

12. The ________ tends to use their reason as a spectacle in which to see the world. Hence

thinking is the means to understand the world.

A. Hindu

B. Chinese

C. Greek

D. Japanese

13. The _________ tend to distinguish mind from body, people from nature, and God from

Man, while the Chinese are used to looking at the world as a whole unit.

A. Westerners

B. Hindus

C. Arabs

D. Indonesians

17. The ______ discourse style is characterized as laying emphasis on impression rather than

on information while the _________ discourse style features laying emphasis on information rather than on impression.

A. Western…Chinese

B. English…Korean

C. American…Japanese

D. Chinese…Westerners’

18. Westerners are direct in expressing ideas while the Chinese are indirect. So the deductive

(topic first) pattern is prevalent in _____ and the inductive (topic delayed) pattern is more accepted by the Chinese and other Asians.

A. the West

B. China

C. Korea

D. Japan

19. The function of nonverbal signs is sometimes indispensible. For example, placing your

index finger to your lips as an alternative to saying “Please calm down so that I can speak” is a case of ________.

A. complementing

B. repeating

C. contradicting

D. substituting