2021年河南专升本专业英语考试真题完型填空
There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are
four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into
the passage and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET.Effective communication with people of different cultures is especially challenging.
Cultures 51 people with ways of thinking—ways of seeing, hearing, and
interpreting the world. Thus the same words can 52 different things to people
from different cultures, even when they talk the “same” language. When the
languages are different, and translation has to be used to communicate, the 53
for misunderstandings increase.
Stella Ting Toomey describes three ways in which culture 54 with effective
cross cultural understanding. First is what she 55 “cognitive constrains(认知
约束)”. These are the world 56 that provide a situation that all new
information is compared to or inserted into.
Second are “57 constraints”. Each culture has its own rules about proper
behavior which 58 verbal and nonverbal communication. Whether one person 59
the other person in the eye or not is one thing that varies from one culture to the
next. Whether one says what one means publicly or talks 60 the issue is another.