苏州大学中国地方文化试卷-1.docVIP

苏州大学中国地方文化英语导读 课程试卷（ 1 ）卷 共 4 页 考试形式 闭 卷 年 月 院系 年级 专业 学号 姓名 成绩 Achievement Test For Highlights of Chinese Civilization and Local Culture Course Paper Type: 1 Directions: 1. The test lasts one and a half hours. You are required to finish your test on time. To keep the test site quiet, we kindly require that you not hand in your test paper ahead of time. 2. Please do NOT bring into the test room any material irrelevant to the test, such as textbooks, revision materials, electronic dictionaries, communication equipment, etc. 3. Please provide all necessary personal information on the Answer Sheet. ATTENTION: Please write on the Answer Sheet all the answers and the TYPE of your test paper. 4. When your test time is over, please leave the test room quietly to guarantee an ideal test environment for others. 5. We thank you very much for not taking out of the room any test material. Part I. Reading Comprehension (10%) Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then answer each question at the end of the passage. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet. Throughout most of China’s long history, the relationships between people in all classes were based on carefully prescribed forms of behavior that covered virtually every aspect of conduct — so much so and to such a degree that learning and following proper etiquette was one of the major facets of life. The higher one was on the social ladder, the more meticulous（谨小慎微）and demanding were the rules of etiquette. The Chinese word for etiquette, Li, which originally meant, “to sacrifice,” refers to the fact that following legally sanctioned etiquette required extraordinary sacrifices, not to mention detailed knowledge of hundreds of correct forms of behavior. Training in this highly prescribed way of living was so thorough, so pervasive, that people were judged first, last, and sometimes always on how closely they fol