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Read the texts from a magazine article in which "A-Okay" gesture’s different meanings in different countries are discussed. For
Read the texts from a magazine article in which "A-Okay" gesture’s different meanings in different countries are discussed. For
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2011-02-28
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Read the texts from a magazine article in which "A-Okay" gesture’s different meanings in different countries are discussed. For questions 61 to 65, match the gesture in different countries (61 to 65) to one of the statements ( A to G) given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1
On his first trip to Naples, a well-meaning American tourist thanks his waiter for a good meal well-served by making the "A-Okay" gesture with his thumb and forefinger. The waiter pales and heads for the manager, They seriously discuss calling the police and having the hapless(不幸的) tourist arrested for obscene and offensive public behavior.
What happened?
Most travelers wouldn’t think of leaving home without a phrase book of some kind, enough of a guide to help them say and understand "Ja" "Nein" "Grazie" and "ou se trouvent les toilettes?" And yet, while most people are aware that gestures are the most common form of crosscultural communication, they don’t realize that the language of gestures can be just as different, just as regional and just as likely to cause misunderstanding as the spoken word.
Consider our puzzled tourist. The thumb-and-forefinger-in-a-circle gesture, a friendly one in America, has an insulting meaning in France and Belgium:" You’re worth zero," while in Greece and Turkey it is an insulting or vulgar sexual invitation.
There are, in fact, dozens of gestures that take on totally different meanings as you move from one country to another. Does "thumbs up" always mean a positive gesture? Absolutely not. Does nodding the head up and down always mean "Yes"? No.
To make matters even more confusing, many hand movements have no meaning at all, in any country. If you watch television with the sound turned off, or observe a conversation at a distance, you become aware of almost constant motion, especially with the hands and arms. People wave their arms, they shrug, they waggle their fingers, they point, they scratch their chests, they pick their noses.
Now match the gesture in different countries (61 to 65) to the appropriate statement.
Note: there are two extra statements.
Statements
[A] a person of no importance or significance
[B] amicable, showing agreement or approval
[C] saying vulgarly "Let’s have sex"
[D] indecent public behavior
[E] a most widely known kind of cross-cultural communication
[F] having no special meaning at all
[G] having the same meaning in different cultures
A - OK in the U.S.
选项
答案
B
解析
A-OK在美国表示友好和夸奖。
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