外研社跨文化交际：中英文化对比Unit_1_Keys_to_exercises_plus.pptxVIP

Unit 1Keys to exercises;Reading Comprehension 1 Skimming scanning 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F 6. T 7. T ;Verbal Expression 2. Differences between Chinese and English verb-object collocations ;背景知识： 关于孙中山的英文为何是 Sun Yat-sen 情况比较复杂，有一种说法是： On the occasion, he chose a pseudonym (号):Rìxīn (日新). This is the name he used while a student in Hong Kong. Later, his professor of Chinese literature changed this pseudonym into Yìxiān (逸仙). Unlike in Standard Mandarin , both pseudonyms are pronounced similarly in the local Cantonese: Yat-sen. As this was the name that he used in his frequent contacts with Westerners at the time, he has become known under this name ( with Cantonese pronunciation ) in the West. In the Chinese world, however, almost nobody uses the Mandarin version Sun Yixian, nor the ?Cantonese ?version ?Sun Yat-sen. (陈明远：2009年《名人传记》专栏文章之一);Critical thinking and cultural exploration;;;Critical thinking and cultural exploration 1 Wade-Giles: a Romanization system for Chinese Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated?as Wade,?is a?Romanization?system for?Mandarin Chinese. It developed from a system produced by?Thomas Wade, during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with?Herbert A. Giles’?A Chinese-English Dictionary?of 1892. Thomas Francis Wade, a scholar of Chinese and a British ambassador in China, was the first professor of Chinese at?Cambridge University. Wade published in 1867 the first textbook on the?Beijing dialect?of?Chinese?in English,?which became the basis for the Romanization system later known as Wade-Giles. The system, designed to transcribe Chinese terms for Chinese specialists, was further refined in 1912 by?Herbert Allen Giles, a British diplomat in China, and his son, Lionel Giles,?a curator at the British Museum.;Critical thinking and cultural exploration Wade-Giles was the system of transcription in the English-speaking world for most of the 20th century, used in standard reference books and in English