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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, D, choose the ONE that best complete the statement.

1.In the United States continues to welcome a large number of immigrants移民

each year and has referred to as a melting-pot大熔炉 society. This trend can

reflect the theory of ___A__.

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 ___A____ 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 ___B___ perspective.

A. anthropological人类学

B. intellectual有才智的

C. social

D. psychological心理

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

__B_______.

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”. Th is belief can reflect that____C___.

A. Human nature is evil but perfectible

B. Human nature is a mixture of good and evil

C. Human nature is good but corruptible

容易堕落的

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__C___.

A. separation and segregation隔离

B. integration整合一体化

C. assimilation吸收同化

D. marginalization边缘化

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__A___ stage of culture shock.

A. honeymoon蜜月

B. crisis危机

C. reintegration再整合

D. gradual adjustment逐渐适应

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

A. Decoding

B. Channel

C. Encoding

D. Source

9.___A__ refers to anything that distorts歪曲曲解 the message the source

encodes.

A. Noise

B. Message

C. Source

D. Context

10.___D__ 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

communication between people whose culture perceptions and symbol systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event.

12. Culture (from intercultural communication perspective)

Culture is the deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, actions, attitudes, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. 从跨文化交际角度定义文化：文

化是个人和群体在种族发展过程中所获得的知识、经验、信念、价值观、行

为、态度、阶级、宗教、时间观、角色、空间观、宇宙观念的积淀，以及他们

获得的物质的东西和所有物。

13. Norms

norms are culturally ingrained principles of correct and incorrect behaviors which, if broken carry a form of overt or covert penalty.

规范指的是正确和不正确行为根深蒂固的文化原则，这种不正确的行为一

旦发生，就意味着一种显性或隐性的处罚。

14. Acculturation

is a process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviors of another group.

15. Euphemism

Euphemism means the act of substituting a mild,indirect,or vague term for one considered harsh,blunt,or offensive.指用温和的，间接的方式来代替严厉的，生硬的或冒犯的言语。