综合英语教程2第四单元答案cultural

Cultural Encounters

Text comprehension

I. B II. 1. T; 2. F; 3. T; 4. T; 5. T.

III.

1. “snail mail”.

2. “an essential stepping stone on the road to success”.

3. “the profound relationship between language and culture that lies at the heart o f society”.

4. “the means to shape our views of the world”.

5. “to negotiate the boundaries between languages and to compromise in translation”.

6. “to use linguistic skills, to think differently, to enter into another culture’s mentality and to shape lang uage accordingly”.

IV.

1. with convenient ways to reach any part of the world.

2. It seems that everyone is able to always get in touch with anyone else if he or she can afford to.

3. is the most important to society.

4. a fundamental skill in today’s wo rld, where different cultures interact.

5. are finding ways to interrelate different cultures.

Structural analysis of the text

1. The last sentence of the 3rd paragraph: “Most fundamental is the profound relationship between language and culture that lies at the heart of society and one that we overlook at our peril.”

2. Paragraph 4: The lack of an exact counterpart of the English word “homesickness” in other languages such as Italian, Portuguese, and German.

Paragraph 5: The problem of untranslatability which the early Bible translators

encountered.

Paragraph 6: English and Welsh speakers make adjustments regarding the color spectrum in the grey / green / blue / brown range; The word “democracy” means completely different things in different contexts; the flat breads of Central Asia are a long way away from Mother’s Pride white sliced toasties, yet the word “bread” has to serve for both.

Part One. Vocabulary Analysis

I. Phrase practice

1. provided =as long as 假如，倘若

need never be out of touch =can never fail to be reached 从不会失去联系

2. regardless of =no matter 不管，不顾

3. overlook at our peril =fail to notice at great risk 忽视……的危险或风险

4. hovers somewhere in and around all those words =may be described by these words to varying degrees

5. hit the problem of untranslatability head-on = were directly confronted with the problem that something in one language cannot be rendered into another

II.

1. stepping stone;

2. at their peril;

3. serve;

4. mentality;

5. staple;

6. facilitating;

7. messaging;

8. hybrid.

III. Word derivation

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.

1. The country is trying to move from a centrally planned economy (economic) to one