B3U8课前听力

Unit 8

新世纪大学英语综合教程3

 Task One: Focusing on the Main Ideas

▇ Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences according to the information contained in the listening passage.

1.        What should you do when you are traveling abroadaccording to the speaker?

A)    Get to know about the manners of the foreigncountry.

B)  Try to remember your own manners.

C)  Read some books about the manners of that country.

D)  Observe closely the foreigners’ manners.

2.        How do Americans feel when Chinese point to thenose to indicate “me”?

A)     Theythink it strange.

B)     Theyfeel it funny.

C)     Theyfind it amazing.

D)     Theyfeel puzzled.

3.        Who never bothers to use two hands to give orreceive a gift?

A)  Chinese.         

B)  Bulgarians.            

C)  Indians.   

D)  Americans.

4.        To Indians, what is the left hand used for?

A)    Serving dishes.

B)    Passing food at table.

C)    Washing themselves.

D)    Showing disagreement.

5.        What does the passage mainly tell us?

A)    It is necessary to adapt to different cultures.

B)    Cultural misunderstanding is common today.

C)    Cultural differences are a worthy topic to study.

D)  People of different cultures may have differentmanners.

Task Two: Zooming In on the Details

Listen to the recording again and fill in each of the blanks according to what you have heard.

1. When Chinese stamp their feet to _______________, Americansinterpret this as __________________.Chinese ____________ for themselvesafter a speech. Americans may see this as ___________________.

2. Americans may pat other adults on the head to show ______________, ______________, or ______________. This behaviorcould insult Chinese.

3. A visitor to ______________ would do well toremember that people there think it impolite to use the ______________________ for passing foodat table.

4. Also inIndia,you might see a man apparently ______________________at theother to show that he is disagreeing. But in many other parts ofIndiaa rotating _______________ of the ____________ is to show ____________.

5. In Europe it is quite usual to ______________________ while sitting andtalking to someone, even at an important meeting. But doing this could ______________________ to a Thailander.