英语语言与文化(选修课)试题库及答案

Quiz for non-English Majors in Culture Class

This quiz is for the students from the English Language & Culture class hosted by Sun Xiaolong.

* Vocabulary and Structure

1. There were also famous and very smart masterminds in the history of the western world, as in the sayings like: (Key: B, Points: 2)

A: Even Athena sometimes makes mistakes.

B: Even Homer sometimes nod.

C: Athena even sometimes make mistakes.

D: Homer even sometimes nods.

2. Places of the ancient Greek civilization include ___________ (Key: A, Points: 2)

A: Crete, Ithaca, Mycenae

B: Egypt, Greece, Rome

C: Crete, Troy, Egypt

D: Egypt, Troy, Asia Minor

3. "_________" is the word we use today to say the world sports games held once in four years. (Key: B, Points: 2)

A: Olympus

B: Olympiad

C: Olympian

D: Olympia

4. "________________" is a creative problem solving competition involving students from kindergarten through college. (Key: A, Points: 2)

A: Odyssey of the Mind

B: Mental Journey

C: Mental Way

D: Way of the Mind

5. There are two morphemes in the word "Pantheon", "pan-" as also in "________" and "theo-" as also in "____________". (Key: C, Points: 2)

A: pants, theory

B: Pandora, theology

C: pan-America, theology

D: pan-Pacific, thermometer

6. He would have made a good pilot but his drinking habit was his _____________. (Key: D, Points: 2)

A: Hector's tendon

B: Achilles' tendon

C: Hector's heel

D: Achilles' heel

7. He was ________________ by visions of power and wealth. But he finally came to realize he could never reach any power or wealth. (Key: D, Points: 2)

A: attracted

B: tempted

C: tantalused

D: tantalized

8. The newspaper was covered with reports of the meeting of the three political ________ in the world. (Key: B, Points: 2)

A: power

B: titans

C: gigants

D: titanics

9. On the way home, Odysseus met some _______ singing beautifully. Now we still refer to a woman as a ________ when we think that she is attractive to men but dangerous in some way. (Key: D, Points: 2)

A: bird women, bird

B: spirits, spirit

C: genies, genie

D: sirens, siren

10. You can't imagine what a mess it was at the beginning. And the _______ state of all the affairs lasted for months actually. (Key: C, Points: 2)

A: trouble

B: ugly

C: chaotic

D: chaos

11. He is a regular church-goer. He goes to the campus _________ every Sunday morning. (Key: C, Points: 2)

A: cathedral

B: abbey

C: chapel

D: monastery

12. Abrahamic religions do not include _______________________________. (Key: A, Points: 2)

A: Buddhism

B: Judaism