西方文化英语阅读理解

『壹』 英语介绍西方的文化 急用！！！！

Something I Admire about the Western Culture
Despite the cultural conflicts between the Orient and the Occident, there do exist some admirable ingredients in the Western culture.
First and foremost, the equality between parents and children. The parents are not always superior to their children, and the children do not always need to obey their parents order, that is, they are more like close friends.
Second, the independent personality. Western people have a strong sense of supporting themselves and being independent. They begin earning their pocket money early in their life, even as kids.

Last, Western people do not always assess a person according to his background. If only he can achieve success through personal struggle, he can win status. It's a talent-oriented society, not background-oriented.
All the above mentioned are what I admire in the western culture and what I think we Chinese should learn.

『贰』 求一篇关于东西方文化的英语短文

As we all know,different countries have defferent culture. “Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another.”
It is inevitable that the cultural difference has impact on business.For example,when a company is having meeting,the word “table” they mention in American English means to put something on the agenda,but in British English it means to pu something off the agenda.This example indicated how the culture affects the business.
There are four cultural dimensions that were defined in Hofstede’ research :power distance,uncertainty avoidance,indivialism and masculinity.
The most significant influence in cultural difference is the power distance.“It would condition the extent to which employees accept that their boss has more power that have and the extent to which they accept that their boss’s opinions and decisions are right because he or she is the boss.”Among most oriental corporate cultures,there is hierachism reasons, great centralization,sometimes called ‘power-oriented culture’,e to the historical reasons.That is a high power distance culture that mangers make the decision and superious appeal to be entitled more privileges.Their decision always close supervision positively evaluated by subordinates. In this situation, it is not be regarded if subordinates have a disagreement with their managers.

Diet Culture difference between China and America.（中美饮食文化的差异）这篇可以参考：）~

The main difference between Chinese and America eating habits is that unlike, where everyone has their own plate of food, in China the dishes are placed on the table and everybody shares. If you are being treated by a Chinese host, be prepared for a ton of food. Chinese are very proud of their culture of food and will do their best to give you a taste of many different types of cuisine. Among friends, they will just order enough for the people there. If they are taking somebody out for dinner and the relationship is polite to semi-polite, then they will usually order one more dish than the number of guests (e.g. four people, five dishes). If it is a business dinner or a very formal occasion, there is likely to be a huge amount of food that will be impossible to finish.

A typical meal starts with some cold dishes, like boiled peanuts and smashed cucumber with garlic. These are followed by the main courses, hot meat and vegetable dishes. Finally soup is brought out, which is followed by the starchy "staple" food, which is usually rice or noodles or sometimes mplings. Many Chinese eat rice (or noodles or whatever) last, but if you like to have your rice together with other dishes, you should say so early on.

Expressing gratitude

Think of the situations below. Your mother is busy in the kitchen. She suddenly asks you to fetch a bowl for her. You do so. What’ll your mother’s response be? Probably she’ll just continue doing the cooking. After a while, the dinner is ready. Your mother hands you your bowl of rice. What’s your response? Probably just begin to eat.

That’s what I want to say. In Chinese families, we rarely say “Thank you” to other family members for receiving help or service. Neither will we say so between good friends. It’s such an unpopular response that if you say it, the counterpart will think you are treating him as a stranger, otherwise you are lacking of intimacy.

But in the West, "thank you" is one of the most frequently used sentences. Teachers will thank a student for answering a question; husbands will thank his wife for making a coffee.

However, as an interesting phenomenon, it’s a custom to say "thank you" in Japan. No matter in family or among friends, Japanese chronically use it all the day. This is probably the aberrance of the culture.

望采纳

『叁』 求几篇高中英语阅读理解文章，内容关于介绍某个西方节日，文化或者习俗。

The Dragon Boat Festival ,also called the Duanwu Festival ,is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar.People always eat rice mplings and watch dragon boat races to celebrate it.

The festival is best known for its dragon-boat races,especially in the southern places where there are many rivers and lakes. It's very popular.

The rice mpling is made of glutinous rice,meat and so on. You can eat different kinds of rice mplings.They are very delicious.And Dragon Boat Festival is for Qu Yuan. He is an honest minister who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river.

Overall, the Dragon Boat Festival is very interesting!

『肆』 能告诉我怎样很好的了解西方文学的文化吗这对英语中的阅读理解很有帮助

可以读点叫的出名的西方名著中英版，如荷马史诗之类的

『伍』 关于西方文化的讲解(英语版)

Western culture refers to Western Europe, North America's modern culture, including the Western world in the common standards and values, customs, and so on. And the Western word corresponds to the Orthodox Church, Asia or the Islamic countries, the Third World or developing countries. Also corresponds to the former Soviet Union was communist country.
The concept of Western culture and the Western world are usually associated with the traditional definition. According to this definition, Western culture is literature, science, music and philosophy and principles of the collection, and unlike other major civilization. Applicable to the decolonization of Western European immigrants or strong impact on the country, and not limited to Western Europe. Most of these were included in the tradition of Western classical.
Western culture is used in many ways, whether correct or not actual use, including the American culture, materialism, instry, and capitalist, commercial, and of hedonism, imperialism, modernism, as well as explanations of Western civilization.
Western culture is often that originated in ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Catholic, Protestant Christians, they were collectively known as the Jewish - Christian culture. However, Western culture is also rooted in Germanic people, Slavs and the Celtics popular culture, the culture is a culture of the Middle Ages in Europe an important driving force.
Western culture in literature, music, philosophy and religion, have a very rich development. Important traditional include:
Scholasticism
Catholic
Protestant
Humanism
Renaissance
The Age of Enlightenment
Secular
The scientific method
1 century BC, the Roman Empire after the fall of Greece, absorbing the ancient Greek science, philosophy, democracy, architecture, literature and art, and on this basis for further development.
In the next 500 years, despite the Roman Empire of ancient Athens, very avant-garde rejected the idea of democracy, but it will be Greek, Latin as the Roman law throughout Europe. Rome cultural integration of the Germanic, Slavic and Celtic culture, but with the decline of Rome, Greece and Rome (Greco-Roman) of the many artistic, literary and scientific disappear or are replaced.
With the advancement of Christian Rome, the Bible as literature and art in the western part of the core, almost to the impact of Western culture in all areas, including arts, law, philosophy, ecation and politics. Rome was set up in many Christian seminaries, and now many universities, colleges that is the origin of this, in general, these institutes to promote the early spread of Western culture. Arab culture preservation of a number of ancient Greece and ancient Rome's knowledge, as the Crusades, Spain, Lebanon where the mole by the special with the Arab culture, have an impact on Western Europe and finally in the 14th century, Greece's cultural heritage and re - Western Europe was found, so the Renaissance was born.
The 16th century, the Renaissance of Western culture were explorers, settlers, merchants and missionaries spread to the New World. Then the Age of Enlightenment, the American Revolution, when the French Revolution reached a peak. Some ideas, such as civil rights, equality before the law, justice and democracy, these constitute the ideal society, the first being put into practice. These guidelines have now become the cornerstone of modern Western culture.
The 19th century, the United States began to develop self-Western culture, the 1950s, occupied a dominant position, together with the United States fashion, entertainment, technology and politics, spread to other Western world.

『陆』 找一篇关于西方文化的英语

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For most of the Chinese people,when they have a heart-to-heart talk with their good friends,they would like to be hand-in-hand and shoulder-by-shoulder.But for American people,they will have a physical distance of 0.45 to 1.2 meters when talking to each other.In China,we usually keep a distance within 1 meter from the general acquaintances.But in America,they will keep 1.2 to 3.5 meters from a general acquaintance. If a stranger touches a Chinese,the Chinese will think that it is very common.But American people will think that he is offended.From the above,yopu can see that there is great difference between Chinese culture and American culture

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『柒』 求几篇高中英语阅读理解原文，内容要是介绍西方某个节日，文化，习俗方面的。

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『捌』 要5篇分类英语阅读：动植物，人物，科技发明，中西方文化介绍（节日），地理知识。要5道练习题及答案

动植物:
Plants are very important living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air， water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air， water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals. Therefore animals and man need plants in order to live. This is why we find that there are so many plants around us. If you look carefully at the plants around you， you will find that there are two kinds of plants： flowering plants and non-flowering plants. Flowering plants can make seeds. The seeds are protected by the fruits. Some fruits have one seed， some have two， three or four， and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit. Most non-flowering plants do not grow from seeds. They grow from spores(胚芽)。 Spores are very small. Some spores are so small and light that they can float in the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as seeds. When these spores are all on wet and shady places， they usually grow into new plants.
. The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______.
A. plants are important for life
B. plants cannot grow without air
C. there are many plants in the world
D. we can not live without water
2. Plants can make food from______.
A. flower， water and air
B. water， sunlight and air
C. air， water and soil
D. air， sun and light
3. What can we infer(推断) from the passage ?
A. Of all living things animals are most important
B. Spores are seeds
C. All fruits of flowering plants have seeds
D. Without plants， man will die out
4. This passage may be taken from______.
A. a medicine book
B. a novel
C. a science magazine
D. an experiment report
5. The underlined word “protected” in the third paragraph can be replaced by ______.
A. damaged B. polluted C. prevented D. guarded
1-5 ABDCD

『玖』 关于中西方文化的初中英语阅读理解练习题及答案

In the US, people prefer waiting for a table to sitting with people they don’t know. This means a hostess may not seat a small group until a small table is available, even if a large one is. If you are sitting at a table with people you don’t know, it is impolite to light up a cigarette without asking if it will disturb them.
At American restaurants and coffee shops you are usually served tap water before you order. You may find the bread and butter is free, and if you order coffee, you may get a free refill.
Most cities and towns have no rules about opening and closing time for stores or restaurants, though they usually do make rules for bars. Especially in large cities, stores may be open 24 hours a day.
Serving in restaurants is often large; too large for many people. If you can’t finish your meal but would like to enjoy the food later, ask your waitress or waiter for a “doggie bag”. It may have a picture of a dog on it, but everybody knows you’re taking the food for yourself.
Supper and dinner are both words for the evening meal. Some people have “Sunday dinner”. This is an especially big noon meal.
Tips are not usually added to the check. They are not included in the price of the meal, either. A tip of about 15% is expected and you should leave it on the table when you leave. In some restaurants, a check is brought on a plate and you put your money there. Then the waiter or waitress brings you your change.
1. Which statement is true?
A. American people like sitting with people they don’t know.
B. A hostess always seats a small group at a large table.
C. American people never sit with people they don’t know.
D. American people would not light a cigarette if the people who sit at the same table mind their smoking.
2. What is served before you order?
A. bread B. butter C. coffee D. cold water
3. What do American people always do when servings are too large for them?
A. They take the food home with a doggie bag for their dogs.
B. They leave the food on the table and go away.
C. They take the food home with a doggie bag and enjoy the food later.
D. They ask the waitress or waiter to keep the food for them.
4. Sunday dinner is_______.
A. a dinner in the evening B. A big noon meal
C. a big lunch on Sunday D. A supper on Sunday
这是一篇讲美国人的用餐习俗的阅读。
As you know different countries have different customs. Also there are many gestures showing many meanings in many countries. Here are a few examples of gestures. A fisherman in Britain will show the size of a fish he has caught by holding his two hands, palms(手掌) facing each other, the right distance apart in front of him. But the one from certain part of Africa will measure off the size along his left arm with his right hand. In Britain the gesture to show the number “one” is made by holding up the index finger (the second finger), but in Switzerland it is the thumb—the first finger which is held up. Some people point at objects with finger, others by sticking out the lips. The gesture for “come here” is made in Britain with the index finger, which is held, pointing upwards, at eye level and bent towards the body; in Egypt the hand is held at arm’s length, palm downwards, and the fingers are then bent. The difference between the movements is very important, and the meanings of the same gestures maybe opposite in different countries. It may bring trouble to those not well known with it.
1. This passage is mainly about _______.
A. different people in different countries B. how to understand the gestures in Britain
C. the different gestures D. how to show a gesture in Egypt
2Sometimes difference between the movements in different countries may bring about _______ to you.
A. a good luck B. a new world C. all ill effect D. happiness
3 How will the Africans express if the object’s size is longer than their left arms?
A. Take a string to show it. B. Keep silent.
C. Bring the object to the spot. D. In another way.
4According to the passage we should _______.
A. look before we leap B. pick and choose
C. strike while the iron is hot D. do in Rome as the Romans do

这是篇中西方习俗的。答案就先不给你发了，希望你认真做，等你做完以后可以把你的答案告诉我，我再告诉你正确的。