【正文】 ntended to state what kinds of cultural differences and why these differences appear. Therefore, it aims at attracting people’s attention to the differences in learning English and the acrosscultural munication. 3. Cultural differences Cultural differences can be reflected in religions, literature, ways of thinking and modes of production, if we distinguish the differences of animal words between Chinese and English. Differences in religions People from different countries have different religions. Their religious disparities can be presented by some animal words mentioned in religious books. DifferencesIn China, people are deeply affected by Buddhism, which is the most inveterate. In European society, Christianity plays a particularly important role. Most western people are Christian. But where did the chief faiths e from? How did they e into being? In the religion of china, gods were simple, real and mundane people who became gods via asceticism. The chief god was Sakyamuni who was originally a prince. Due to his tiredness to live in palace, he was eager to find the truth of the life and safe the miserable people. After the meditation that lasted 49 days, he came to understand and became a sage at last. As a result, he attracted many people to be believers and they revered him as a director of thought. So Sakyamuni became the Buddha. On the contrary, in Christianity, Jesus, who was the chief god of Christianity, was the son of God Jehovah and a mon girl whose name was Maria. He was an envoy to save human beings and to atone for human beings’ crime. Because he was Jehovah’s son, Jehovah’s soul was certainly in him. So it made him a soul with wisdom and intelligent, strategy and ability, and knowledge and reverence (Zheng Chunmiao, 1994). That’s to say, Jesus’ deity came from Jehovah. But who was Jehovah? He was a god who exceeds the spirits of human. He existed before human exist and he existed independently. He was eternal and absolute. He was the ultimate reason of the existence of everything. The image of gods came into being because of the poor production force. It reflected that primitive people felt mystery to the supernatural phenomenon appearance. When selfconscious was founded and made nature as a dissident power which controlled human beings and the surrounding, the image of gods came into being. Gods, whether Chinese gods or western gods, are all created by their people according to their needs and imagination, and almost all the evolution courses of the gods that are worshiped by people develop from animalshaped gods to half man half animal to manshaped gods. That’s because there are quite a lot of differences in society and history between Chinese and western countries, and as gods in religion is a kind of social consciousness which is the reflection of social existence, the relationship between man and gods have quite a lot of differences. In western countries, the relationship is mainly about penance and accepting penance, and that in Chinese religion is about preying for blessings and giving blessings. What acpanies the former is man’s worship towards gods, while the latter respect. Western people think their ancestors had the guilt of eating the forbidden fruit secretly, and they believe that Jesus Christ can rescue them。在此基礎(chǔ)上作者歸納出避免差異產(chǎn)生的建議和方法：閱讀各種各樣的書籍，瀏覽因特網(wǎng)，與老師，同學(xué)和朋友多交流，并且尊重各國文化。文章回顧了文化的定義及文化和動物詞匯的關(guān)系，展現(xiàn)了兩國文化中的四種差異—宗教和神話，文學(xué)，生產(chǎn)方式和思維方式。它讓我們了解更多的外國文化，能在跨文化交際中能流暢正確地進行交流。在很大程度上，動物詞匯反映了文化內(nèi)涵。載有文化意義的詞匯，在語言中也起到很重要的作用。畢業(yè)論文(設(shè)計)Acknowledgements I wish to express my thanks and appreciation to my tutor, Miss Wu Bifang, who is a careful, responsible and patient teacher. She helped me to get my ideas into shape, optimize the writing structure and realize disadvantages of the thesis. Thanks to her careful reading and detailed suggestions, I can successfully finish my thesis writing. She is really a conscientious teacher. My thanks should also be given to all the teachers who have taught me my BA courses. They are responsible and professional too. They taught me how to study and how to make progress. Education lies not only in imparting knowledge, but also in educating people. So they always taught me how to cope with problems in front of difficulties. I learnt a lot about life from my teachers. I do appreciate the help of my classmates and roommates. They gave me a lot of psychological support and encouragement. In particular, I sincerely appreciate Chen Bifeng. We shared the useful information and talked about thesis together. When she found some information related to my topic, she would let me know immediately or kept them for me. She gave me much advice and support. AbstractDue to different natural environment, history, economy and politics, every country has its own culture. Language is a cultural carrier. Cultureloaded vocabulary plays an important role in a language. Animal words keep close relationship with human beings. Gradually, animal words bee a part of language. To some extend, animal words reflect cultural connotations. Therefore, knowing about the animal words can enrich our minds. It can help us to know more about foreign culture and municate smoothly and correctly in acrossculture. Moreover, throughout the parison between the Chinese and English cultural differences, we know the advantages and disadvantages of our culture. In that case, we can better improve our culture.The article reviews the definition of culture and the relationship between culture and animal words. Four kinds of cultural differences are displayed. They are religion and mythologies, literature, modes of production and ways of thinking. The paper summarizes what exactly the differences are in the four aspects and how these differences e about. Then it gives examples to represent the differences. Based on the analysis and discussions above, the author put forward some suggestions to avoid the mismunication: learn foreign culture by reading v