中国大学MOOC 跨文化交流-东北大学 测验与作业答案

Section1 Basic concepts: Culture, Communication, Intercultural Communication

1 Nervousness about a public speech is psychological noise in a communication process.
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2 Four elements affect the quality of intercultural communication. They are conception ，verbal process, nonverbal process and contextual elements.
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3 Culture is compared as the “ hardware of our mind”, regulating and governing people’s behaviors.
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4 In modern countries, our experience of culture has been profoundly affected by the development of mass media.
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5 The process of communication has 10 components: sender, encoding, message,channel, receiver, decoding, response, feedback, noise and context.
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6 Westerners emphasize the instrumental function of communication. Therefore, westerners are generally more courteous and indirect in their mode of  communication.
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7 Effective communication should be interactive and transactional. 
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8 Culture is innate as soon as a person is born.
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9 Noise is inevitable in human communication but we can eliminate it completely.  
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10 In multi-cultural communication, physical differences sometimes might result in  stereotyping, prejudice or even discrimination. 
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Section 2 Cultural Value Orientation: Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s Model

1 10. In social relationships that stress group values, people usually seek suggestions from their friends, family members and colleagues.
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2 9. The United States and Mexico are typical future-oriented societies.
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3 8. The orientation of man’s mastery over nature is characteristic of the Western approach.
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4 7. The belief that human nature is basically evil can be traced back to the teachings of Christianity.
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5 6.Values are only transmitted by family members and usually passed down from generation to generation.
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6 5. The __________cultures stress the idea of development and growth of self.
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7 4. In past-oriented societies, people usually attach great importance to  history and ______.
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8 3. People who believe that man is ______nature worship the natural world as God and tend to accept their fate. 
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9 2. In China, as in other Asian societies, humans are believed to be born _______but corruptible.
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10 1. Muslims do not eat pork, which is an example of ______values.
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Section 4 Hall’s Culture Context Model

1 In low context culture hinting at something is an effective way of getting what you want.
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2 In high context culture if you want something, it’s best to come out and ask for it.
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3 In low context culture people get down to business right away and often omit any “small” talk.
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4 In high context culture the use of intermediaries or go-betweens is common.
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5 In low context culture business is conducted only after enough time is taken for talking about family, health, important politics, etc.
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6 Paying attention to the status of the communicator is as important as the message itself in low context culture.
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7 “I don’t understand” is often used to voice disagreement in low context culture.
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8 In low context culture it is alright to say “I disagree” to your professor in class.
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9 In high context culture the message is more important than the status of who communicated it.
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10 In high context culture people have a hard time saying no
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Section5 Verbal Communication

1    Addressing forms like “Miss Mary”, “Brown” by the Chinese may be a form of cultural compromise. 
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2    Red is considered a festival color all over the world.
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3    Chinese hospitality toward the Westerners is always greatly appreciated.  
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4    Ranks in the armed forces like Captain, Colonel can be used as titles.
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5    Americans often communicate in a matter-of-fact way. 
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6    People in some Arabic countries use a lot of adjectives in their communications. 
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7    Our social norms are determined and will never change.
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8    Every word has a cultural connotation.
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9    Language and culture are closely related.
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10    If we all speak the same language, we can communicate happily with each other.
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