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《跨文化交际与地球村民》部分练习参考答案 Key to Some of the Exercises (for your reference only) UNIT 1 Globalization and Intercultural Communication Part One Warm Up Question 4 This is a Canadian host family (Canadian husband on the left, Russian wife in the middle and their son left to the mother) hosting students abroad. From left to right, there are Chinese, Malaysian, Japanese and Singaporean who are international students in Canada. This picture best illustrates the concept of global village where people from different cultural backgrounds meet and even live together for whatever reasons. Part Three Exercises Section A Filling the Blanks 1. contact 2. right 3. amazing 4. cultural 5. assume 6. decades 7. characteristics 8. viruses 9. important 10. minimized 1 Section D Case Studies Case 1 Finding an Interested Buyer Explanations A. This could be an explanation for what happened. However, not enough information was provided to support this choice. Had he truly been interested and then unexpectedly detained by important business matters, it is most likely that Mr. Li would have left additional instructions suggesting a new time to meet or a method of contact. There is a better alternative. B. This is an inaccurate generalization. Although time concepts vary across national borders, businesspeople in China are generally as dependable as those in the United State and dependability is considered a virtue in Chinese society. If Mr. Li believed that he had set a firm appointment with George, he would have been at the appointed place, and he would have