According to the reading passage, what can be inferred fromRobert Breckenridge’s failure to communicate?
A. When doing business with someone from another country, it’s not necessary to speak its language.
B. Speaking a foreign language very well does not mean you can behave culturallyappropriatetoo.
C. Never underestimate your partner, especially for the first business meeting.
D. When learning a foreign language, we should take its grammar seriously.
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What is the main idea of paragraph 4 in the reading passage?
A. People tend to be less aware of the cultural literacy when communicating with people from another culture.
B. Language and culture are related to and shape each other.
Cultural literacy is a must to command a foreign language.
D. Knowing its grammaticalrules is necessary to command a foreign language.
What does “register”(Line 2, paragraph 5) refer to?
A. book in
B. record
C. show
D. express
According to the author, why is it said that words in themselves don’t carry the meaning?
A. Because language bears the characteristic ofarbitrariness (任意性).
Because it is well known that the forms oflinguisticsigns bear no natural relationship to their meanings.
C. Because the author intends to emphasize the fact that word meaning comes not only from its literalusagebut also from the cultural context.
D. Because words are usually attributed to the specific meaning and interpreted differently from person to person.
Which of the following statements is NOT TRUEaccording to the reading passage?
A. Language barrieris adirect resultfromMr. Hartmann’s businessfailurein America.
B. As culture and language are inseparable, cultural literacy should be highly valued in communicating across cultures.
C. In the context of American English,“How are you?”should be culturallyinterpretedas a greeting rather than a question.
D. Germans and Americans have a culturally different way toaddresspeople.
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