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Unit4Cultural Encounters Key to the Exercises Text comprehension I. B II. 1. T 。 2. F 。 3. T 。 4. T 。 5. T. III. 1. “snail mail ”. 2. “an essential stepping stone on the road to success ”. 3. “theprofound relationship between language and culture that lies at the heart of society ”. 4. “the means to shape our views of the world ”. 5. “to negotiate the boundaries between languages and to compromise in translation ”. 6. “touse linguistic skills, to think differently, to enter into another culture mentality’s and to shape language accordingly ”. IV. 1. The age we are living provides us with convenient ways to reach any part of the world. 2. It seems that everyone is able to always get in touch with anyone else if he or she can afford to. 3. is the most important to society. 4. This is a fundamental skill in today ’s world, where different cultures interact. 5. Lots of people are finding ways to interrelate different cultures. Structural analysis of the text 1. The last sentence of the 3rd paragraph: “Most fundamental is the profound relationship between language and culture that lies at the heart of society and one that we overlook at our peril. ” 2. Paragraph 4: The lack of an exa ct counterpart of the English word “homesickness ” in other languages such as Italian, Portuguese, and German. Paragraph 5: The problem of untranslatability which the early Bible translators encountered. Paragraph 6: English and Welsh speakers make adjustments regarding the color spectrum in the g