(完整版)自考《欧洲文化入门试卷及答案练习题》

1、课程欧洲文化入门 考试时间 120 姓名学号分钟 日期学院年月班级日 .read the following unfinished statements or questionas carefully. for each unfinished 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 letter

2、 of the answer you have choosen in the corresponding spcae on the answer sheet. (40 points, 2 point for each)1. 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?a. pla

3、to b. socratesc. aristotle d. cicero3._ was called “the greatest historian that ever lived”by macaulay.a. thucydides b. herodotusc. socrates d. aristotle4. the first king to unite the hebrews was a warrior-famer name_ .a. moses b. joshuac. saul d. david5. who issued the edict of milan in 313,whick g

4、ranted religious freedom to all and made christianity legal?a. domitian b. valerianc. constantine d. theodosius6. the ancestors of the jews are called hebrews which mean _ .a. wanderers b. travelersc. traders d. merchants7. in the latter part of the fourth century the _ swept into europe from centra

5、l asia.a. turkish b. hunsc. athens d. roman8. apart from being aplace of worship, the _ was a place for recreation andthe center of trade and community activity.a. bridge b. church buildingc. village d. subway9. for two centuries beginning fromthe late fifteenth century,_ was the golden city which g

6、ave birth to a whole generation of poets, scholars,artists and sculptors.a. milan b. florencec. venice d. the papal states10. which of the following figures knows “how to make beauty yield meaning and meaningyield beauty”?.a. boccaccio b. shakespearec. raphael d. petrarch11. _ is recognized as the f

7、ather of the modern european novel and has had great impact on world literature.a. don quixote b. hamletc. gargantua and pantagruel d. utopia12. the english poet alexander pope once wrote:nature and nature laws lay hid in night.god said, “let_ be”, and all was light.a. copernicus b. keplerc. newton

8、d. einstein13. it is generally believed that modern philosophy begins with francis bacon in england and with _ in france.a. corneille b. lockec. rousseau d. descartes14. the great contribution of st.jerome was _.a. the building of monasteriesb. the translation of old and new testaments into latinc.

9、the setting up of the 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 17thcentury,such ans galileo and ne

10、wton,attached great importanceto _ .a. deductive reasoning b. 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

11、 stoics.c. aristotle 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 pain andemotional upheaval. .a. sophists b. cynicsc. sceptics d. epicureans19. _ is said to have t

12、old the king of syracuse:“give me a place to stand,and i will move the world.”a. archimedes b. aristotlec. plato d. euclid20. in the revolution of the heavenly orbs,_ put forward his theory that the sun, not the earth, is the center of the universe.a. kepler b. galileoc. newton d. copernicus.in the

13、following part there are two columns.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)21

14、.st.jerome (a)latin version of bible 22.dante (b)the city of god 23.aristophanes (c)the canterbury tales 24.virgil (d)aeneid25. constantine (e)last supper26. augustine (f)virgin mary27. chaucer (g)edict of milan28. leonardo da vinci (h)frogs29. raphael (i)the divine comedy30. homer (j)odyssey.give a

15、 one-sentence answer to each of the following question. write 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 ea

16、ch other in the4thcentury b.c.in greece?33.what gave birth to christianity?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

17、 promote learning in the middle ages.38.which period does renaissance 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 followin

18、g terms in english. write your answer in the corresponding space on the test paper in around 40 words.(20 points, 5points each)41.athens democrach42.beowulf43.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 b

19、aconian philosophical system and the different between inductie method ( 推 理法)and deductive method( 演绎法)?课程欧洲文化入门 答案.1-10: a, c, a, c, c, a, b, b, b, d11-20: a, c, d, b, b, c, b, d, a, d. 21a,22i,23h,24d,25g,26b,27c,28e,29f,30j.31.the major elements are the greco-roman element and the judeo-christia

20、n element. 32.the four schools of philosophers are cynics,the sceptics,the epicureans and thestoics.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 classe

21、s:clergy,lords and peasants.36. in 1071 the armies 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

22、 charlemagne and alfred the great.38.renaissance refers to the period between the 14thand mid 17thcentury.39. mona lisa and last supper are leonardo da vincis most famous pictures.40. it was the great venetian painter titian.iv41. athens was a democracy. democracy means “exercise of power by the who

23、le people”,but by“the whole people”the 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 denma

24、rd of sweden and tells how the hero, beowulf, defeats the monster grendel and grendels mother, 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 home island of ithaca. it