武汉大学研究生口语答案.pdf

Unit I 1. The key to an effective and meaningful intercultural communication and essential factors that affect smooth communications between people from different cultures I think the key to an effective and meaningful intercultural communication is that knowing the six stumbling blocks and try the best to avoid the blocks we can take insight, training, and alternation of long-standing habits and gain such knowledge that the people have different customs, goals and thought patterns. What’s more, we can make intercultural encounters with more attention to situational details, using investigative approach and learn the skills that can be improved in order to try to make cross-cultural experiences more satisfying and rewarding. Finally, it’s a good way to work with people who have different customs, goal, and thought patterns from his own and within them, neither losing one’s own values in confrontation nor protecting oneself behind a wall of intellectual detachment. The normal essential factors that affect smooth communications are language factors such as vocabulary, syntax ，idioms, slang, dialect and so on. Then the nonverbal factor such as facial expression, gestures, body language and posture, eye gaze, feel and appearance also affect smooth communications between people from different cultures. 2. What are the stumbling blocks in intercultural communications? And which ones may be more troublesome in terms of interruptive effects caused to communication? There are six stumbling block in intercultural communications. First one is assumption of similarity. It