英语语言与文化(选修课)试题库及答案.pdf

Quiz for non English Majors in Culture Class This quiz is for the students from the English Language and the New Testament literally the contract between Key B Points 2 A God and Jesus God and Jews B God and Abraham Jesus and Christian people C God and Jews Jesus and Jews D God and Christians Jesus and Christians 15 The administrative body of the Catholic Church in Rome is Key A Points 2 A Holy See B Holy Seat C Holy Church D St Peter s 16 Which of the following words does not fit into the group Key C Points 2 A cross B crusade C crude D crucify 17 Which of the following is not the term to say Jesus Christ Key D Points 2 A God s son B Savior C Messiah D Holy Spirit 18 Canaan the promised land of is for Abraham s people Key C Points 2 A fertility B fish and rice C milk and honey D wealth 19 St Patrick s Day is observed for St Patrick who came first to to christianize the land Key D Points 2 A England B Britain C America D Ireland 20 St Augustine of Canterbury was the first of Canterbury Cathedral Key D Points 2 A head B pope C bishop D archbishop 21 Weddings coronations funerals of The British royal family are usually held in Key C Points 2 A Canterbury Cathedral B any local church in London C Westminster Abbey D Buckingham Palace 22 The groups that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the sixteenth century Protestant Reformation do not include Key A Points 2 A Orthodox Church B Protestants C Puritans D Anglican Church 23 English language is closely related to Key D Points 2 A Greek B Latin C Italian D German 24 Alfred the great was the king of Key B Points 2 A Essux B Wessex C Sussex D Kent 25 The last king of Wessex House was Key D Points 2 A Edward I B Edward II C Edward VIII D Edward the confessor 26 The first Norman king was Key B Points 2 A Edward the confessor B William the conqueror C Richard the lionheart D Edward I 27 is not in the legends of King Arthur Key C Points 2 A Excalibar B Round table knights C Little John so free D Lord Lancelot 28 Legends of Robin Hood are related to all but Key D Points 2 A Richard the lionheart B King John C the Gay Green Woods D Edward the longshanks 29 was the first to bear the title Prince of Wales Key B Points 2 A Edward I B Edward II C Charles I D Charles II 30 Words like request pork comprehend are of origin Key C Points 2 A Anglo Saxon B Danish C French D Greek 31 Words like sky ski skin are from language Key A Points 2 A Norse B French C Anglo Saxon D Latin 32 Names ending with son as in Robinson to mean by as in Swainby to mean thorpe as in Westthorpe to mean are of origin Key B Points 2 A son of village farm Danish B son of farm village Danish C son of farm village Norse D son of village farm French 33 Jeffery Chaucer s language as in Canterbury Tales is Key B Points 2 A Old English B Middle English C Early Modern English D Later Modern English 34 Shakespeare s English is also known as Key B Points 2 A Late Modern English B Elizabethan English C Middle English D Modern English 35 The Golden Age in British history refers to Key A Points 2 A Elizabethan Age B Jacobean Age C Victorian Age D Norman Period 36 Guy Fawkes Day has its origin in And Guy Fawkes was a Key D Points 2 A the legends of Robin Hood Christian B Gun Powder Plot puritan C the legends of King Arthur protestant D Gun Powder Plot Catholic 37 The first English settlement in America was Key B Points 2 A Plymouth B Jamestown C Virginia D Massachusetts 38 The English settlement Plymouth was established by Key C Points 2 A people of King James I B people of King Charles II C Mayflower pilgrims D Catholics 39 Which of the following is NOT from Poor Richard s Almanac Key C Points 2 A Three may keep a Secret if two of them are dead B No gains without pains C All that glitters is not gold D Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise 40 The Star Spangled Banner is the name of Key A Points 2 A the American national anthem B the American national flag C the song popular during the American civil war D the flag of the British army 41 The purchase of Louisiana from in 1803 doubled the area of the U S Key D Points 2 A Great Britain B Canada C Mexico D France 42 The 13 colonies in the New World made up what we now call New England which include Key B Points 2 A Florida B New Hampshire C Texas D California 43 Middle West was acquired from France after Key D Points 2 A the Second Revolutionary War B the U S Mexican War C the U S Spanish War D the French Indian War 44 The White House and the Capitol were ever burned down by Key B Points 2 A the French soldiers during the French Indian War B the British soldiers during the Second Revolutionary War C the South soldiers during the American Civil War D the Spanish soldiers during the U S Spanish War 45 refers to those who went to the west during the Gold Rush after the discovery of gold in 1848 Key B Points 2 A Gold Rushers B Forty niners C Gold miners D Frontiers 46 The era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States in the late 19th century is known as Key B Points 2 A the Golden Age B the Gilded Age C the Jazz Age D Industrial Age 47 The Jazz Age in American history is featured by all except Key D Points 2 A Jazz Music B Prohibition of Alcohol C Bootlegging D Industrial Revolution 48 There were assassinations of in the Turmoil Sixties Key A Points 2 A John F Kennedy Robert Kennedy Martin Luther King jr B John F Kennedy Ronald Reagan Martin Luther King jr C Robert Kennedy Martin Luther King jr Ronald Reagan D Robert Kennedy John F Kennedy Ronald Reagan Cloze A with choices Beauty love and wisdom personified in Greek Mythology According Greek mythology Athena the goddess of 1 is attended by 2 the bird of 1 as is still believed by people in the West She is also the goddess of 3 and accompanied by 4 the goddess of 5 The ancient Greeks built the Parthenon to worship her also because she is the patron of the city of 6 Besides Athena there is another feminine deity Aphrodite or 7 as Romans would call her She is the goddess of 8 together with her own son as believed by many Cupid god of erotic love and desire Now we still have in English language the words 9 etymologically derived from the very name of Cupid or Eros as his Greek name or Amor as his Latin name And Psyche wife of Cupid becomes the etymological source for words like 10 1 Key D Points 2 A love and beauty B desire and lust C wealth and health D wisdom and intelligence 2 Key B Points 2 A a robin B an owl C an eagle D a crow 3 Key A Points 2 A heroic endeavour B war and fight C war and discord D dispute and discord 4 Key B Points 2 A Discordia B Nike C Mars D Eris 5 Key A Points 2 A victory B war and discord C failure D heroes 6 Key D Points 2 A Paris B London C Rome D Athens 7 Key B Points 2 A Helen B Venus C Athena D Juno 8 Key A Points 2 A beauty and love B lust and desire C wisdom and intelligence D power 9 Key B Points 2 A amour and error B amour and erotic C aim and erotica D arm and error 10 Key A Points 2 A psychic and psychiatrist B pseudo and psychology C pseud and pseudo D psyche and pseud Cloze B without choices Deities in Greek Mythology Modify the Passage Directions Choose from the list of words and expressions to fill in the blanks Olympians Mother of all gods and