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GaoLili Answer Key to Unit One Part I Reading Guidelines Reading Practice 1 first Reading Practice 2 2 Reading Practice 3 One of the newly and rapidly developing telecommunication technologies, the Internet, is bringing a new form of communication: intercultural computer-mediated communication to many people around the world. Reading Practice 4 4 Reading Practice 5 培根?《论读书》Nonverbal misinterpretations. (4) The presence of preconceptions and stereotypes. (5) Tendency to evaluate. (6) High anxiety (tension/stress). …there are sufficient similarities among peoples of the world to make communication easily and being human and having common requirements of food, shelter and so on makes everyone alike. It’s comforting to believe that “people are people” and “deep down we’re all alike.” The worst one is clinging to just one meaning of a word or phrase in the new language, regardless of connotation or context. People from different cultures inhabit different sensory realities. They see, hear, feel and smell only that which has some meaning or importance to them. That is, they interpret nonverbal signs and symbols through the frame of reference of their own culture and this will most likely lead to misunderstandings. On the one hand, stereotypes help reduce the threat of the unknown by making the world predictable and in this way stereotypes increase our feeling of security when we are in a foreign country. On the other hand, stereotypes interfere with objective viewing of stimuli and are therefore a stumbling block in intercultural communication. We need to be open-minded and examine attitudes and behaviors from the other’s point of view, rather than approve or disapprove of the statements and actions of the other person or group based on our own culture and way of life. When going abroad we are attacked by verbal, nonverbal, physical and psychological stimuli often very different from the stimuli we are used to. This causes us to have stress and anxiety. This question r