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PAGE PAGE 1 《跨文化交际》课程典型考点解析（3） 本资源系根据教材内容及特点，找出课程学习中必须引起重视的核心考点，并结合历届考题加以分析，供学生在自主学习、期末复习时使用，也可作为教师进行面授教学、归纳课程重点的依据。 典型考点3：正误判断题 考点扫描 正误判断题的目的是为了测验考生对准确理解上下文中反映的观点、事实并做出准确判断的能力。 （二）真题链接 [1]（2007-1） Passage 1 In some respects we are like computers that are controlled by operating systems–our culture. Anlhropologists Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall suggested that culture is a system for creating, sending, storing, and processing information. .Sounds rather like the standard definition for a computer, doesnt it? This useful metaphor helps us better understand how culture operates, Think of your body as the hardware of a computer. Computers may have more than one operating system, such as DOS, Mac, Unix, or Windows. They also have software that controls specific applications, such as word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. When you are functioning under one operating system, say as a European North American, you behave like others in that group. But at times you may be controlled by another operating system, say, when you are in a situation where you are functioning as a female. Society programs men and women to act differently. Gender, race, age, religion, and many other factors affect our behavior. These factors are like operating systems that program us to behave in certain patterns. Just as Unix operating system has trouble communicating with a DOS machine, so do people from one culture have difficulty getting through to those from another culture, Because individuals have more than one operating system, they do not always behave as expected. And just as operating systems can control many software applications, people are further differentiated by the software application that may be operating at any given time. For example, work cultures differ remarkably from one organization to another. When people conditioned to work in casual surroundings are placed in work cultures that are more formal and regimented, they may experience c