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 分钟 日期 年 月 日姓名 学号 学院 班级I .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 le

2、tter 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 ” byDante?Pl

3、atoB. SocratesC. Aristotle D. Cicero 3.was called “the greatest historian that ever lived by Macaulay.A. Thucydides B. HerodotusC. SocratesD. AristotleThe first king to unite the Hebrews was a warrior-famer name.A. MosesB. JoshuaC. SaulD. DavidWhoissued the Edict of Milan in 313,whick granted religi

4、ous freedom to all and made Christianity legal?A. Domitian B. ValerianC. ConstantineD. TheodosiusThe ancestors of the Jews are called Hebrews which mean.A. wanderersB. travelersC. tradersD. merchantsIn the latter part of the fourth century the swept into Europe from central Asia.A. TurkishB. HunsC.

5、AthensD. RomanApart 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. subwayFor two centuries beginning from the late fifteenth century, was the golden city which gave birth to a whole generation of po

6、ets, scholars,artists and sculptors.A. MilanB. FlorenceC. VeniceD. the papal stateswhich of the following figures knows “how to makebeauty yield meaning and meaningyield beauty ” ?.A. BoccaccioB. ShakespeareC. RaphaelD. Petrarchis recognized as the father of the modern European novel and has had gre

7、at impact on world literature.A. Don QuixoteB. hamletC. Gargantua and Pantagruel D. UtopiaThe English poet Alexander Pope once wrote:Nature and Nature laws lay hid innight.God said, let be ” , and all was light.A. CopernicusB. KeplerC. NewtonD. EinsteinIt is generally believed that modern philosophy

8、 begins with Francis Baconin England and with in France.A. CorneilleB. LockeC. RousseauD. DescartesThe great contribution of St.Jerome was.the building of monasteriesthe translation of Old and New Testaments into Latinthe setting up of the church systemnone of the aboveWhich of the following is not

9、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 thinkerScientists in the 17theentury,such ans Galileo and Newton,attached great importance to .A. deductive reasoningB. classical authorityC. direct obse

10、rvation and experiment D. humanist learningWhich of the following is not true about Aristotle?A. In Aristotle the great humanist and the great man of science meet.Aristotle founded the school of the Stoics.Aristotle was tutor of Alexander.Aristotle wrote manybooks on logic,politics, poetry, rhetoric

11、 and other subjects.believed that the highest good in life was pleasure, freedom from pain and emotional upheaval. .A. SophistsB. CynicsC. ScepticsD. Epicureansis said to have told the king of Syracuse:Give me a place to stand, andI will move the world. ”A. ArchimedesB. AristotleC. PlatoD. EuclidIn

12、The Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs,put forward his theory that the sun, not the earth, is the center of the universe.A. KeplerB. GalileoC. NewtonD. Copernicusn .In the 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

13、titles, namesof organizations,works or remarks in the right hand column and put the number a or b or c etc. inthe bracket on the test paper.(10 points, 1 point each)21.St.Jerome.Dante.Aristophanes.Virgil.Constantine.Augustine.Chaucer.Leonardo da Vinci .Raphael.Homer (a)Latin version of Bible(b)The C

14、ity 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. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the test paper.(20 points, 2 points each).Among many elements

15、 which constitute European culture, what are the two major ones?.What are the four schools of philosophers who often argued with each other in the 4th century B.C.in Greece?.What gave birth to Christianity?.What does the Old Testament mainly deal with?.What classes were the people of weatern Europe

16、under feudalism mainly divided into?.Why did the Crusades go on about 200 years?.Name the two men who made great efforts to promote learning in the Middle Ages.Which period does Renaissance refer to in the European history?.List tow most famous pictures painted by Leonardo da Vinci.Who established o

17、il colour on canvas as the typical mediumof the pictorial tradition in western art?IV.Explain each of the following terms in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the test paper in around 40 words.(20 points, 5points each)41.Athensdemocrach42.Beowulf43.John Locke44.OdysseyV.Write

18、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 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 n .

19、 21a,22i,23h,24d,25g,26b,27c,28e,29f,30j.The major elements are the Greco-Roman element and the Judeo-Christian element.The four schools of philosophers are Cynics,the Sceptics,the Epicureans and the Stoics.t was the Jewish tradition that gave birth to Christianity.34.The Old Testment is about God a

20、nd 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 armies of the Turkish Moslems occupied Palestine, killing manyChristain pilgrims and even selling manyothers as slaves, which roused great indignation among

21、Christains in western Europe and resulted in the crusades lasting on about 200 years.They are Charlemagne and Alfred the Great.Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid 17 th century.Mona Lisa and Last Supper are Leonardo da Vinci s most famous pictures.40.It was the great Venetian p

22、ainter Titian.IV41.Athens was a democracy. Democracymeans “exercise of power by the whole 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 ver

23、se, originating from the collective efforts of oral literature. The story is set in Denmard of Sweden andtells how the hero, Beowulf, defeats the monster Grendel and Grendel s mother, asea 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 describes ma