新英达自考英语本科试题2010年4月欧洲文化入门试题

2010年10月高等教育自学考试北京市命题考试

欧洲文化入门 试卷

本试卷分为两部分，共3页，满分l00分；考试时间150分钟。

1．第一部分为选择题，应考者必须在“答题卡”上的“选择题答题区”内按要求填涂，答在试卷上无效。

2．第二部分为非选择题，应考者必须在“答题卡”上的“非选择题答题区”内按照试题题号顺序直接答题。答在试卷上无效。

第一部分 选择题 (共40分)

PART ONE

1．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．The Romans conquered Greece in

A．146 B．C． B．500 B．C．

C．700 B．C． D．1200 B．C．

2．The playwright who contributed greatly to Greek tragic art was

A．Sophocles B．Aristophanes C．Herodotus D．Homer

3．The greatest of Latin poets was A．Horace B．Virgil C．Homer D．Cicero

4．Daniel was taken prisoner to after the fall of Jerusalem.

A．Egypt B．Persia C．Babylon D．Assyria

5．David was ．

A．a Hebrew king B．the boy who killed Goliath

C．the man who made Jerusalem the capital D．all of the above

6．In the formative period of feudalism, the bishops were themselves

A．scholars B．hermits C．feudal lords D．knights

7．As a result of the Crusades，luxuries of the East poured into the West．They were spices．

perfume．hand．woven carpets and

A．tea B．Chinaware C．silk D．silverware

8．Martin Luther held that was the supreme authority．

A．the Church B．the Bible C．the Pope D．Jesus

9．Ophelia is a character in Shakespeare’s ．

A．Hamlet B．Othello C．Macbeth D．Merchant of Venice

10．The Reformation shattered Medieval Church’s stifling control over man．thus paving the

way for

A．economic development B．free thinking C．capitalism D．progress

11．Galile0，because he refused to compromise．was tried by ．

A．the College of Cardinals B．the Italian court

C．the Spanish court D．the Inquisition

12．To Newton，space and time are absolute，to Einstein，motion and space are ．

A．relative B．unlimited C．infinite D．1imited

13．“A Modest Proposal” was written by ．

A．Defoe B．Swift C．Diderot D．Fielding

14．Shelley called poets “the unacknowledged legislators of the world” in his ．

A．Prometheus unbound B．Defence of Poetry

C．1yrics D．Ode to the West Wind

15．Schumann stood as the typical example of the influence of upon music．

A．revolutionary ideals B．philosophy C．1iterature D．religion

16．According to Darwin，becomes a mechanism for evolutionary change．

A．natural selection B．process C．adaptation D．variation

17．Zola believed almost blindly

A．Social Darwinism B．Utopian Socialism

C．pragmatism D．scientific determinism

18．The writer who devoted himself to the novel of social condition in England in the 19 th cen-

tury was

A．Thomas．Hardy B．William Makepeace Thackeray

C．George Eliot D．Charles Dickens

19．The contribution made by Pierre and Maris Curie is ．

A．the discovery of atomic nucleus B．the discovery of radium

C．the discovery of X—rays D．the discovery of relativity

20．To the New Novelists，plot，action，narrative，ideas and analysis of characters are A．no longer important B．still very important

C．of equal importance D．none of the above

第二部分 非选择题 (共60分)

PART TWO

II．In the foliowing part there are two columns．The 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．Match each name in the left hand column with corresponding ti- tie，organization，work，or remark in the right hand column and put the number a or b or e in the bracket on the ANSWER SHEET．(10 points，1 point each)

21．St．Jerome (a)“The die is cast．”

22．Schiller (b)Lettres Anglaise

23．Keats (C)Mother

24．Francois Rabelais (d)Gargantua and Pantagruel

25．Walt Whitman (e)Fathers and Sons

26．Thomas Hobbes (f)Ode to a Nightingale

27．Corky (g)Leaves of Grass

28．Turgenev (h)the Vulgate

29．Julius Caesar (i)founder of modem German literature

30．Voltaire (j)author of Leviathan

III．Give a one-sentence answer to each of the following questions．Write your answer in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET．(20 points，2 points each)

31．Which are the most famous temples in ancient Greece?

32．What did Horace mean when he said．“Captive Greece took her rude conqueror captive．”?

33．Why were Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire?

34．HOW shall we define the Catholic Church?

35．What made Italy lose its supremacy in world trade in the late l5th century?

36．What was Hobbes’s view of the nature of man?

37．What kind of a novel is Les Miserables7 ．

38．What did Kant try to reconcile in “Critique of Pure Reason”?

39．Why did literature become出e voice of出e people in Russia in the l 9 th century?

40．What are the major interests of new novelists?

IV．Explain each of the following terms in English．Write your answer in the corre sponding space on the ANSWER SHEET in around 40 words．(20 points，5 points each)

41．Plato’s and Democritus’ views of the world

42．Noah’s Ark

43．John Wyclif

44．Mark Twain

V. Write between l00—120 words on the following topic in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET(10 points)

45．What is the role of Turgenev in Russian literature?

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