Ⅳ.篇章結構
Choose the BEST answer from the box below for each blank in the passages.
       Seeking cross-border education has been a global trend, particularly for the past two decades.The trend can be more salient in Chinese higher education landscape because in the ten-yeartimeframe (2009–2018), the number of international enrollments in China has been more thandoubled. __31__ Thus, the multicultural university environment can provide a platform forintergroup contact between domestic and international students in China. __32__ To that end, ourwork is anchored within the anxiety/uncertainty management (AUM) theory. The AUM isdeveloped to explain perceived effectiveness of intercultural communication and asserts thatreduction of intergroup anxiety (an affective factor) and intergroup uncertainty (a cognitive factor)may act as basic causes of communication effectiveness. __33__ Additionally, the AUM argues thatthere may be an array of superficial causes (e.g., identities, self-esteem, and perceived similarities)affecting anxiety and uncertainty. And intergroup contact is one of these superficial causes and itseffect on perceived effectiveness may be mediated by anxiety and uncertainty.
【題組】31.
(A) Specifically, individuals in intergroup encounters can effectively communicate if they canmanage levels of anxiety and accurately predict outgroup members’ feelings, attitudes, andbehaviors.
(B) Our work aims to test whether and through what mechanisms their contact with each othercan contribute to intercultural communication effectiveness that is increasingly considered asa pivotal student outcome in the globalized world featured by interconnectedness andinterdependence.
(C) China is now the third largest host country of international students, just behind the U.S. andUK.
(D) To fill in the gap, our work presents two studies, targeting domestic university students(majority group) and international students (minority group) in China, respectively.