[单项选择]Our identity has a major effect on our communication.
A. 我们的身份对交流还有一定的效果。
B. 我们的看法对整个交流产生了很大的阴影。
C. 我们的身份对交流有着重要影响。
D. 我们的认识对我们的交流有重要影响。

[单项选择]Our identity has a major effect on our communication.
A. 我们的身份对交流还有一定的效果。
B. 我们的看法对整个交流产生了很大的阴影。
C. 我们的身份对交流有着重要影响。
D. 我们的认识对我们的交流有重要影响。

[单项选择]Perhaps open government' s effect has been greatest in______.


A. budget
B. supervision
C. decision-making
D. promulgation of rules and regulations

[单项选择]The effect of higher oil prices has been substantially {{U}}offset{{/U}} by the recent yen appreciation.
A. represented
B. increased
C. cancelled out
D. paid

[单项选择]Our university has introduced sound personnel evaluating system with less emphasis on age ______.
A. than more on ability
B. and more on ability
C. and more ability
D. than ability

[单项选择]A major party nominee has the______advantage of support from the party faithful．
A. critic
B. criticise
C. critical
D. criticism

[单项选择]Our examination has been postponed until next Friday.
A. put on
B. put down
C. put off
D. put in

[单项选择]

Text 4
Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one’s side, or that in Italy and some Latin- American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell.
Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm’s length away from others. Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch, which makes Americans uncomfortable.
Our linguistic and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countr
A. are isolated by the local people
B. are not well informed due to the language barrier
C. tend to get along well with the natives
D. need interpreters in hotels and restaurants