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)1.———— was the founder of scientific mathematics.A. PythagorasB. DemocritusC. AristotleD. Diogenes2. Which of the following figures was regarded as “the master of those whoknow”by DanteA. PlatoB. SocratesC. AristotleD. Cicero3.________ was called “the greatest historian that ever lived”by Macaulay.A. ThucydidesB. HerodotusC. SocratesD. Aristotle4. The first king to unite the Hebrews was a warrior-famer name________ .A. MosesB. JoshuaC. SaulD. David5. Who issued the Edict of Milan in 313,whick granted religious freedom toall and made Christianity legalA. DomitianB. ValerianC. ConstantineD. Theodosius6. The ancestors of the Jews are called Hebrews which mean ________ .A. wanderersB. travelersC. tradersD. merchants7. In the latter part of the fourth century the ________ swept into Europefrom central Asia.A. TurkishB. HunsC. AthensD. Roman8. Apart from being a place of worship, the ________ was a place forrecreation and the center of trade and community activity.A. bridgeB. church buildingC. villageD. subway9. For two centuries beginning from the late fifteenth century,________ wasthe golden city which gave birth to a whole generation of poets, scholars,artists and sculptors.A. MilanB. FlorenceC. VeniceD. the papal states10. which of the following figures knows “how to make beauty yield meaningand meaning yield beauty”.A. BoccaccioB. ShakespeareC. RaphaelD. Petrarch11. ________ is recognized as the father of the modern European novel andhas had great impact on world literature.A. Don QuixoteB. hamlet12. The English poet Alexander Pope once wrote:Nature and Nature’laws layhid in said, “let________ be”, and all was light.A. CopernicusB. KeplerC. NewtonD. Einstein13. It is generally believed that modern philosophy begins with FrancisBacon in England and with ________ in France.A. CorneilleB. LockeC. RousseauD. Descartes14. The great contribution of was ________.A. the building of monasteriesB. the translation of Old and New Testaments into LatinC. the setting up of the church systemD. none of the above15. Which of the following is not true about DanteA. Dante was a great Italian poet.B. Dante wrote BeowulfC. Dante wrote his masterpiece in ItalianD. Dante was a greatpolitical thinker16. Scientists in the 17th century,such ans Galileo and Newton,attached greatimportance to ________ .A. deductive reasoningB. classical authorityC. direct observation and experimentD. humanist learning17. Which of the following is not true about AristotleA. 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 andother subjects.18. ________ believed that the highest good in life was pleasure, freedomfrom pain and emotional upheaval. .A. SophistsB. CynicsC. ScepticsD. Epicureans19. ________ is said to have told the king of Syracuse: “Give me a placeto stand, and I will move the world.”A. ArchimedesB. AristotleC. PlatoD. Euclid20. In The Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs,________ put forward his theorythat the sun, not the earth, is the center of the universe.A. KeplerB. GalileoC. NewtonD. CopernicusⅡ.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 or remarks in the right hand column and put the number a or b or c etc. in the bracket on the test paper.(10 points,1 point each)[ ] (a)Latin version of Bible[ ] (b)The City of God[ ] (c)The Canterbury Tales[ ] (d)Aeneid25.Constantine [ ] (e)Last Supper[ ] (f)Virgin Mary[ ] (g)Edict of Milan[ ] (i)The Divine Comedy[ ] (j)OdysseyⅢ.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)many elements which constitute European culture, what are the two major onesare the four schools of philosophers who often argued with each other in the 4th century Greecegave birth to Christianitydoes the Old Testament mainly deal withclasses were the people of weatern Europe under feudalism mainly divided intodid the Crusades go on about 200 yearsthe two men who made great efforts to promote learning in the Middle Ages. period does Renaissance refer to in the European historytow most famous pictures painted by Leonardo da Vinci.established oil colour on canvas as the typical medium of the pictorial tradition in western arteach 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)’democrachLockeBetween 100-120 Words on the following topic in the corresponding space on the test paper.(10 points)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Ⅰ.1-10: A, C, A, C, C, A, B, B, B, D11-20: A, C, D, B, B, C, B, D, A, DⅡ. 21a,22i,23h,24d,25g,26b,27c,28e,29f,30jⅢ.major elements are the Greco-Roman element and the Judeo-Christian element.four schools of philosophers are Cynics,the Sceptics,the Epicureans and the Stoics.was the Jewish tradition that gave birth to Christianity.Old Testment is about God and the Laws of God.of western Europe under feudalism were mainly divided into three classes:clergy,lords and peasants.1071 the armies of the Turkish Moslems occupied Palestine, killing many Christain pilgrims and even selling many others as slaves, which roused great indignation among Christains in western Europe and resulted in the crusades lasting on about 200 years.are Charlemagne and Alfred the Great.refers to the period between the 14th and mid 17th century.Lisa and Last Supper are Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous pictures.was the great Venetian painter Titian.IV41.Athens was a democracy. Democracy means “exercise of power by the wholepeople”,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.is an Anglo-Saxon epic, in alliterative verse, originating from the collective efforts of oral literature. The story is set in Denmard of Sweden and tells how the hero, Beowulf, defeats the monster Grendel and Grendel’s mother, a sea monster,but eventually receives his own deathin fighting with a fire dragon.Locke was a great English empiricist and an outstanding political philosopher, whose writing on economics, politics and religion expressed the ideas of the time.deals with the return of Odysseus after the Trojan war to his home island of Ithaca. It describes many adventures he ran into on his long sea voyage and how finally he was reunited with his faithful wife Penelope. V.45.The answer as follows:1.The whole basis of his philosophy was practical: to give mankind masteryover the forces of nature by means of scientific discoveries and inventions.2.He held that philosophy should be kept separate from theology, notintimately be blended with is as in Scholasticism.3.Bacon established the inductive method. Induction means reasoning fromparticular facts or individual cases to a general conclusion. Deductive method emphasized reasoning from a known principle to the unknown and from the general to the specific.4.In a word, to break with the past, and to restore man to his lost masteryof natural world. This was what Bacon called the Great Instauration.。