自考《欧洲文化入门试卷及答案练习题》

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 letter 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. Democritus

C. Aristotle

D. Diogenes

2. Which of the following figures was regarded as “the master of those who know”by

Dante

A. Plato

B. Socrates

C. Aristotle

D. Cicero

3.

________ was called “the greatest historian that ever lived”by Macaulay.

A. Thucydides

B. Herodotus

C. Socrates

D. Aristotle

4. The first king to unite the Hebrews was a warrior-famer name________ .

A. Moses

B. Joshua

C. Saul

D. David

5. Who issued the Edict of Milan in 313,whick granted religious freedom to all and made

Christianity legal

A. Domitian

B. Valerian

C. Constantine

D. Theodosius

6. The ancestors of the Jews are called Hebrews which mean ________ .

A. wanderers

B. travelers

C. traders

D. merchants

7. In the latter part of the fourth century the ________ swept into Europe from central

Asia.

A. Turkish

B. Huns

C. Athens

D. Roman

8. Apart from being a place of worship, the ________ was a place for recreation and the

center of trade and community activity.

A. bridge

B. church building

C. village

D. subway

9. For two centuries beginning from the late fifteenth century,________ was the golden

city which gave birth to a whole generation of poets, scholars,artists and sculptors.

A. Milan

B. Florence

C. Venice

D. the papal states

10. which of the following figures knows “how to make beauty yield meaning and meaning

yield beauty”.

A. Boccaccio

B. Shakespeare

C. Raphael

D. Petrarch

11. ________ is recognized as the father of the modern European novel and has had great

impact on world literature.

A. Don Quixote

B. hamlet

C. Gargantua and Pantagruel

D. Utopia

12. The English poet Alexander Pope once wrote:Nature and Nature’laws lay hid in said,

“let________ be”, and all was light.

A. Copernicus

B. Kepler

C. Newton

D. Einstein

13. It is generally believed that modern philosophy begins with Francis Bacon in England

and with ________ in France.

A. Corneille

B. Locke

C. Rousseau

D. Descartes

14. The great contribution of was ________.

A. the building of monasteries

B. the translation of Old and New Testaments into Latin

C. the setting up of the church system

D. none of the above

15. Which of the following is not true about Dante

A. Dante was a great Italian poet.

B. Dante wrote Beowulf

C. Dante wrote his masterpiece in Italian

D. Dante was a great political thinker

16. Scientists in the 17th century,such ans Galileo and Newton,attached great importance

to ________ .

A. deductive reasoning

B. classical authority

C. direct observation and experiment

D. humanist learning

17. 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 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 and

emotional upheaval. .

A. Sophists

B. Cynics

C. Sceptics

D. Epicureans

19. ________ is said to have told the king of Syracuse: “Give me a place to stand, and

I will move the world.”

A. Archimedes

B. Aristotle

C. Plato

D. Euclid

20. 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. Galileo

C. Newton

D. Copernicus

Ⅱ.In the following part there are two left hand column consists of a list of names.

The right hand column consists of a list of titles, names of organizations, works