大学英语跨文化交际双语课程1

大学英语跨文化交际双语课程水平测试题（一）

I. Multiple Choice (20 points, 2 points each)

Directions: There are some statements in this section. For each statement there are four choices marked A, B, C and D, choose the ONE that best completes the statement.

1.The United States continues to welcome a large number of immigrants each year and has been

referred to as a melting-pot society. This trend can reflect the theory of _____.

A. macroculture

B. microculture

C. globalization

D. modernization

2. A teenager dresses like and talks like a gang member but not a member of any gang. This case

reflects the _______ characteristic of subgroup.

A. deviant label

B. temporality

C. wanna-be behavior

D. unexamined

3.When you talk with your friends about Picasso, Beethoven, you are talking about culture from

______ perspective.

A. anthropologic

B. intellectual

C. social

D. psychological

4.The dialogues at the United Nations, for example, would be termed _________.

A. interracial communication

B. interethnic communication

C. international communication

D. interpersonal communication

5.There is a Chinese belief that “One is good in nature with different characteristics but similar

habits. However, if he is not well educated, his nature changes”. This belief can reflect that_______.

A. Human nature is evil but perfectible.

B. Human nature is a mixture of good and evil.

C. Human nature is good but corruptible.

D. None of the above.

6.Mr. Wang, a Chinese immigrate in U.S, has adapted himself so well to American culture that

he gradually lost his Chinese cultural identity. This process is called_____.

A. separation and segregation

B. integration

C. assimilation

D. marginalization

7.Liming, a Chinese student, just began his study in a university in the United States. In his first

week in U.S, he thought everything was new and exciting, and he enjoyed himself a lot.

Liming is in_____ stage of culture shock.

A. honeymoon

B. crisis

C. reintegration

D. gradual adjustment

8._____ is the process of putting an idea into a symbol.

A. Decoding

B. Channel

C. Encoding

D. Source

9._____ refers to anything that distorts the message the source encodes.

A. Noise

B. Message

C. Source

D. Context

10._____ refers to that portion of the receiver response of which the source has knowledge and

to which the source attends and assigns meaning.

A. Receiver

B. Decoding

C. Encoding

D. Feedback

II. Terms (15 points, 3 points each)

Directions: There are five terms in this section. Try to explain the following terms in your own words. Then write down the answers on the Answer Sheet.

11.Intercultural communication

12.Culture (from intercultural communication perspective)

13.Norms

14.Acculturation

15.Euphemism