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On cross-cultural awareness and listening Paper Keywords: cultural background; thinking; English Listening Abstract: The lack of Anglo-American cultural background, differences in the way of thinking is the impact of Chinese students to improve English listening comprehension of the main reasons. This paper discusses the cultural background and way of thinking and listening comprehension of the relationship, pointing out that students background knowledge and thinking in English the importance of the way and ways and means. American Anthropologist Sa Wang Er said: “Language can not be divorced from culture exists.” Inseparable relationship between language and culture. Every nation has its own unique customs and cultural background, people are always based on their cultural background and language and customs with their own way of thinking inherent in the words of others to understand, so if you are not familiar with American country’s cultural background knowledge, do not understand starting a Western way of thinking to understand the English language, it will cause great for English listening comprehension obstacles, resulting in hearing the successful completion of the process is difficult to understand. cultivate their listening comprehension ability is one of the key English language teaching, to improve listening comprehension, teachers and students should pay attention to cultural background factors and ways of thinking, expanding Anglo-American cultural background knowledge, reinforcement the ability to think in English, so think in English and understand English. First, the cultural background and way of thinking in the English embodiment of the process of listening comprehension Teaching in English listening, we often find this situation: some listening material is not very complex, not many words partial word, language structure is quite simple, but the students still did not understand. Even understood, only access to the literal meani