一些外语教育专家曾对我国学生甚至是英语专业的学生做过测试调查,其结果表明,他们所掌握的英语国家的文化知识与所达到的英语水平之间存在着一个很大的差距。也就是说,所测试学生的社会文化能力远远落后于语言能力,究其原因则是我们在平时的英语教学中仅要求学生去掌握英 Some foreign language education experts have conducted tests on Chinese students and even English majors. The results show that there is a big gap between the cultural knowledge of the English-speaking countries they possess and the level of English they have achieved. In other words, the social and cultural ability of the students tested lags far behind the language ability, the reason is that we only require students to master English in normal English teaching