2018年宁波大学英语（二外）考研真题244.doc0页

2018年宁波大学英语（二外）考研真题244.doc宁波大学 2018 年硕 士 研 究 生 招 生考 试 初 试 试 题(A 卷) ( 答案必须写在考点提供的答 题纸上) 第 1 页 共 9 页 科目代码： 244 总分值： 100 科目名称： 英语（二外） Part I Cloze Test (20 points, 1 point each) Directions: In this part you are required to read the given passages carefully, and then fill in each blank with an appropriate word given in the boxes. Each word is allowed to be used only once. You should not change the form of the word but you can capitalize the initial letter if the word is used at the beginning of the sentence. Write your choices in the Answer Sheet. Passage One as basically because between unlike whatever where which while who Living in a culture that is different from your own can be both an exciting and challenging experience. You have to learn different cultural practices and try to adapt to them. Here are the top six cultural differences 1 China and the US to help promote mutual understanding. Chinese people do not have the same concept of privacy as Americans do. They talk about topics such as ages, income or marital status, 2 Americans think is annoying and intrusive. In China, elders are traditionally treated with enormous respect and dignity 3 the young are cherished and nurtured. In America, the goal of the family is to encourage independence, particularly that of the children. 4 the Chinese, older Americans seldom live with their children. Chinese people have different meanings to define friends. Just hanging out together time to time is not friendship. Friendship means lifelong friends who feel deeply obligated to give each other 5 help might seem required. Americans always call people they meet friends, so the definition of friends is general and different. There are work friends, playing friends, school friends and drinking friends. 6 is well known, the Chinese like to save. They are always conservative when they are planning to spend money. It is different in the USA, 7 far fewer families are saving money for emergencies and education than their Chinese counterparts. Chinese people value education and career more than Americans, 8 in turn put more emphasis on good character and faith. 9 China values the community and the US values the individual. If you achieve something in the US, it's because you were great. While in China, if you achieve something in China it's 10 the team, or family, or the company is great. Everything you do gets attributed to the greater whole,