1.How do you understand culture?
“Culture is a system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours, and artifacts that the members of a society u to cope with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning.”
（Culture is man’s “cond nature”; Air to man; water to fish；
Culture is beneath awareness in the n that no one bothers to verbalize it, yet it forms the roots of action）
2.What is culture shock?
We might almost call culture shock an occupational dia of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad. Culture shock is precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercour. The cues which may be words, gestures, facial expressions, customs, or norms are acquired by all of us in the cour of growing up and are as much a part of our culture as the language we speak or th
e beliefs we accept.
3.Do you know a fluent fool?
折原由香里To know another’s language and not his culture is a very way to make a fluent fool of
one’s lf. Like learning how to drive a car by studying a drivers manual and never getting behind a steering wheel.
4.What do you know about a religion in the world?
Buddhist is a religion to about 300million people around the world.it has its origins about 2500years ago when siddhartha gotama, known as the buddha，was himlf awakend at the age of 35.Four Noble Truths :To live is to suffer. (苦湄公河事件)The cau of suffering is lf-centered desire and attachments. (集)Suffering ends when one is freed from desire. This is achieved by eliminating all delusion, thereby reaching a liberated state of Enlightenment (Nirvana) (灭)The way to Nirvana is through the “Eight-Fold Path.” (道)to l
ead a moral life ;to be mindful and aware of thoughts and actions;
to develop wisdom and understanding
5.Do you know any Greek myth?
6.Can you list some etiquette during a western dinner?
Your napkin should be placed on your lap shortly after you are ated and kept on your lap at all times during the meal. Do not tuck your napkin under your chin.
The fork is held in the left hand, tines facing down. The knife is held in the right hand. After cutting the food, the knife is laid down and the fork is switched to the right hand to eat the cut food. Continental style (where the fork stays in the left hand to eat the cut food) is perfectly acceptable. At a dinner party, never begin eating until everyone is rved and your hosts have begun. Offer food or drink to others before helping yourlf.
7.顺开头的成语Can you introduce one of Chine traditional festival?
The Dragon Boat Festival, the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, has had a history of more than 2,000 years. It is usually in June in the Gregorian calendar. Dragon boat racing is an indispensable part of the festival, held all over the country. As the gun is fired, people will e racers in dragon-shaped canoes pulling the oars harmoniously and hurriedly, accompanied by rapid drums, speeding toward their destination. Folk tales say the game originates from the activities of eking Qu Yuan's body, but experts, after painstaking and meticulous rearch, conclude that dragon boat racing is a mi-religious, mi-entertaining program from the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). In the following thousands of years, the game spread to Japan, Vietnam and Britain as well as China's Taiwan and Hong Kong. Now dragon boat racing has developed into an aquatic sports item which features both Chine tradition and modern sporting spirit. In 1980, it was listed into the state sports competition programs and has since been held every year. The award is called "Qu Yuan Cup."
8.Do you know some phras about color in English?
a white soul 纯洁的心灵 white lie 善意的谎言怎么看cpu型号white dream 不眠之夜
white man 善良的人black market 黑市black list 黑名单芦苇种植black dog 忘恩负义的人black sheep 害群之马black tea 狗狗喜欢吃什么红茶green eyes 嫉妒,眼红green girl 新手,黄毛丫头
a yellow dog 卑鄙无耻的小人brown sugar 红糖black tea 红茶in the pink 振作起来
pink tread 上流社会的活动工作简介
9.Can you briefly introduce the history of western architecture?
10.What western festival is most popular in China and why?
11.How well do you know your chopstick etiquette?
一忌敲筷二忌掷筷 四忌插筷 五忌挥筷 六忌舞筷
形容复杂的成语12. Why are we called “the descendants of Yan and Huang”?
Chine history began with two legendary figures—Emperor Huang and Emperor Yan, who, together with their tribes, inhabited the drainage area along the middle reaches of the Yellow River. By the time of Xia Dynasty, after centuries of living side by side, the two tribes had gradually merged into one. Conquently, the Chine people usually themlves “the descendants of Yan and Huang”
13. What is the historical background of Thanksgiving day? what is traditional food in Thanksgiving?
In 1620, the ttlers, or Pilgrims, they sailed to America on the May flower, eking a place where they could have freedom of worship. After a tempestuous two-month voyage they landed at in icy November, what is now Plymouth, Massachutts. All summer long they waited for the harvests with great anxiety, knowing that their lives and the future exis
tence of the colony depended on the coming harvest. Finally the fields produced a yield rich beyond expectations. And therefore it was decided that a day of thanksgiving to the Lord be fixed. Years later, President of the United States proclaimed the fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day every year. The celebration of Thanksgiving Day has been obrved on that date until today.
