2008年欧洲文化入门试题

PART ONE

I. Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each unfinished statement or question, four suggested answers marked [ A ], [ B ], [ C ] and [ D] are given. Choose the one which best completes the statement or answers the question by blackening the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points, 2 points each)

1. During the height of the development of Greek culture, Alexandria was noted for its

A. port facilities

B. population

C. library

D. architecture

2. Which of the following is true about Plato?

A. He adopted the dialectical method in argument

B. He was the author of Ethics

C. He built up a comprehensive system of philosophy

D. He was friend of Socrates

3. gave birth to Christianity.

A. Palestine

B. Jewish tradition

C. The Bible

D. None of the above

4. Abraham was told by God to lead the Hebrews to the Promised Land, which roughly corresponds to the present-day

A. Egypt

B. Sinai

C. Jordan

D. Palestine

5. was made the official language of the Catholic Church.

A. Greek

B. Latin

C. Hebrew

D. Italian

6. Alfred the Great made the Anglo-Saxon cultural center.

A. London

B. Essex

C. Edingburg

D. Wessex

7. In Raphael's works, there is the exquisite harmony and of the High Renaissance.

A. balance

B. power

C. vigor

D. knowledge

8. In England, the question of reform was chiefly one of rejection of the supremacy of

A. the Pope

B. the Church

C. the Parliament

D. the Sovereign

9. In the century Europe advanced from the Middle Ages to the modem times.

A. 15th

B. 16th

C. 17th

D. 18th

10. The law of inertia was discovered by

A. Copernicus

B. Newton

C. Kepler

D. Galileo

11. "Every man is enemy to every man. " is the view held by

A. Bacon

B. Hobbes

C. Locke

D. Newton

12. One major source of primitive accumulation of capital was

A. farming

B. textile

C. commerce

D. slave trade

13. The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement originating in

A. France

B. Spain

C. England

D. Italy

14. was considered to be a child prodigy.

A. Haydn

B. Bach

C. Mozart

D. Handel

15. To the conservative and reactionary forces in society, Byron's poetry was called

A. Satanic

B. Heroic

C. Byronic

D. none of the above

16. "Ruslan and Liudmila" was written by

A. Lermontov

B. Pushkin

C. Hugo

D. Tehaikovsky

17. The author of the book Evolution and Ethics is

A. Yan Fu

B. Charles Darwin

C. Thomas Huxley

D. Herbert Spencer

18. The realists tended to regard as the center of the novel.

A. ethics

B. image

C. plot

D. characterization

19. Which of the following is a social satire?