自考《歐洲文化入門試卷及答案練習(xí)題》

1、課程歐洲文化入門 考試時間120 分鐘 日期 年 月 日姓名 學(xué)號 學(xué)院 班級I .Read the following unfinished statements or questionas carefully.For eachunfinished statement or question, four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D are given. Choose the one that you think best completes the statement or answers the question. Write the le

2、tter of the answer you have choosen in the corresponding spcae on the answer sheet. (40 points, 2 point for each) was the founder of scientific mathematics.A. Pythagoras B. DemocritusC. Aristotle D. Diogenes2. Which of the following figures was regarded as “the master of those who know' by Dante

3、?A. PlatoB. SocratesC. Aristotle D. Cicero 3.was called “the greatest historian that ever lived" by Macaulay.A. Thucydides B. HerodotusC. SocratesD. Aristotle4. The first king to unite the Hebrews was a warrior-famer name.A. MosesB. JoshuaC. SaulD. David5. Who issued the Edict of Milan in 313,w

4、hick granted religious freedom to all and made Christianity legal?A. Domitian B. ValerianC. ConstantineD. Theodosius6. The ancestors of the Jews are called Hebrews which mean.A. wanderersB. travelersC. tradersD. merchants7. In the latter part of the fourth century the swept into Europe fromcentral A

5、sia.A. TurkishB. HunsC. AthensD. Roman8. Apart from being a place of worship, the was a place for recreation and the center of trade and community activity.A. bridgeB. church buildingC. villageD. subway9. For two centuries beginning from the late fifteenth century,was the golden city which gave birt

6、h to a whole generation of poets, scholars,artists and sculptors.A. MilanB. FlorenceC. VeniceD. the papal states10. which of the following figures knows“ how to make beauty yield meaning andmeaning yield beauty ” ?.A. BoccaccioB. ShakespeareC. RaphaelD. Petrarch11. is recognized as the father of the

7、 modern European novel and has hadgreat impact on world literature.A. Don QuixoteB. hamletC. Gargantua and Pantagruel D. Utopia12. The English poet Alexander Pope once wrote:Nature and Nature laws lay hid in night.God said, “ letbe ” , and all was light.A. CopernicusB. KeplerC. NewtonD. Einstein13.

8、It is generally believed that modern philosophy begins with Francis Bacon in England and with in France.A. CorneilleB. LockeC. RousseauD. Descartes14. The great contribution of St.Jerome was .A. the building of monasteriesB. the translation of Old and New Testaments into LatinC. the setting up of th

9、e church systemD. none of the above15. Which of the following is not true about Dante?A. Dante was a great Italian poet. B. Dante wrote BeowulfC. Dante wrote his masterpiece in Italian D. Dante was a great political thinker16. Scientists in the 17th century,such ans Galileo and Newton,attached great

10、 importance to .A. deductive reasoningB. classical authorityC. direct observation and experiment D. humanist learning17. Which of the following is not true about Aristotle?A. In Aristotle the great humanist and the great man of science meet.B. Aristotle founded the school of the Stoics.C. Aristotle

11、was tutor of Alexander.D. Aristotle wrote many books on logic,politics, poetry, rhetoric and other subjects.18. believed that the highest good in life was pleasure, freedom from painand emotional upheaval. .A. SophistsB. CynicsC. ScepticsD. Epicureans19. is said to have told the king of Syracuse:“ G

12、ive me a place to stand,and I will move the world. ”A. ArchimedesB. AristotleC. PlatoD. Euclid20. In The Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs, put forward his theory that thesun, not the earth, is the center of the universe.A. KeplerB. GalileoC. NewtonD. Copernicusn .In the following part there are two c

13、olumns.The left hand column consists of a list of names. The right hand column consists of a list of titles, names of organizations, works or remarks in the right hand column and put the number a or b or c etc. in the bracket on the test paper.(10 points, 1 point each) (a)Latin version of Bible22.Da

14、nte23.Aristophanes24.Virgil25.Constantine26.Augustine27.Chaucer28.Leonardo da Vinci29.Raphael30.Homer(b)The City of God(c)The Canterbury Tales(d)Aeneid(e)Last Supper(f)Virgin Mary(g)Edict of Milan(h)Frogs(i)The Divine Comedy(j)Odysseym .Give a one-sentence answer to each of the following question. W

15、rite your answer in the corresponding space on the test paper.(20 points, 2 points each)31 .Among many elements which constitute European culture, what are the two major ones?32 .What are the four schools of philosophers who often argued with each other in the 4 th Greece?33 .What gave birth to Chri

16、stianity?34 .What does the Old Testament mainly deal with?35 .What classes were the people of weatern Europe under feudalism mainly divided into?36 .Why did the Crusades go on about 200 years?37 .Name the two men who made great efforts to promote learning in the Middle Ages.38 .Which period does Ren

17、aissance refer to in the European history?39 .List tow most famous pictures painted by Leonardo da Vinci.40 .Who established oil colour on canvas as the typical medium of the pictorial tradition in western art?IV.Explain each of the following terms in English. Write your answer in the corresponding

18、space on the test paper in around 40 words.(20 points, 5points each) 41.Athens ' democrach 42.Beowulf 43.John Locke44.OdysseyV.Write Between 100-120 Words on the following topic in the corresponding space on the test paper.(10 points)45 .What is Baconian philosophical system and the different be

19、tween inductie method (推理法)and deductive method(演繹法)?課程歐洲文化入門答案I .1-10: A, C, A, C, C, A, B, B, B, D11-20: A, C, D, B, B, C, B, D, A, D n . 21a,22i,23h,24d,25g,26b,27c,28e,29f,30j m.31 .The major elements are the Greco-Romanelement and the Judeo-Christian element.32 .The four schools of philosophers

20、 are Cynics,the Sceptics,the Epicureans and the Stoics.33.It was the Jewish tradition that gave birth to Christianity.34 .The Old Testment is about God and the Laws of God.35 .people of western Europe under feudalism were mainly divided into three classes:clergy,lords and peasants.36.In 1071 the arm

21、ies of the Turkish Moslems occupied Palestine, killing many Christain pilgrims and even selling many others as slaves, which roused great indignation among Christains in western Europe and resulted in the crusades lasting on about 200 years.37 .They are Charlemagne and Alfred the Great.38 .Renaissan

22、ce refers to the period between the 14th and mid 17 th century.39 .Mona Lisa and Last Supper are Leonardo da Vinci s most famous pictures.40.It was the great Venetian painter Titian.IV41.Athens was a democracy. Democracy means “ exercise of power by the whole people ” ,but by“ the whole people ” the

23、 Greeks meant only the adult male citizens, and citizenship was a set of rights which a man inherited from his father.42.Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic, in alliterative verse, originating from the collective efforts of oral literature. The story is set in Denmard of Sweden and tells how the hero, Be

24、owulf, defeats the monster Grendel and Grendel smother, a sea monster,but eventually receives his own death in fighting with a fire dragon.43.John Locke was a great English empiricist and an outstanding political philosopher, whose writing on economics, politics and religion expressed the ideas of the time.44.Odyssey deals with the return of Odysseus after the Trojan war to his homeisland of Ithaca. It descr