23春《阅读（III）》作业2

试卷总分:100  得分:100

一、单选题 (共 18 道试题,共 72 分)

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

A.Thucydides

B.Herodotus

C.Socrates

D.Aristotle

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

A.Moses

B.Joshua

C.Saul

D.David

3.______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340.

A.Geoffrey Chaucer

B.Sir Gawain

C.Francis Bacon

D.John Dryden

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

A.wanderers

B.travelers

C.traders

D.merchants

5.The Olympic Games began in ancient Greece and was revived in __

A.the 1 Th century

B.the 18th century

C.the early 19thcentury

D.the late 19 th century

6.The base of the so called Counter-Reformation was in __________

A.Spain

B.Germany

C.France

D.Italy17

7.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.

A.Christian

B.knightly

C.Greek

D.primitive

8._____ brought the new religion, Christianity to Britain.

A.the Celts

B.the Anglo-Saxons

C.the Jutes

D.the Romans

9._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.

A.Christopher Marlow

B.Francis Bacon

C.W. Shakespeare

D.Ben Johnson

10.________ 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

11.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

12.__________was not a architect among the following?

A.Giotto

B.Brunelleschi

C.Donatello

D.Da Vinci

13.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.

A.William Langland’s Piers Plowman

B.Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

C.John Gower’s Confession Amantis

D.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

14.__________was a man of talents, and he was a real Renaissance man in the true sense of the word.

A.Dante

B.Da Vinci

C.Petrarch

D.Shakespeare

15.The only way to get God's favour to get to heaven was sacrament. The most important sacrament was __________for remembering and thanking Christ of his death for redeeming people.

A.baptism

B.confirmation

C.confession

D.Holy Communion

16.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.

A.Henry V.

B.Henry VII

C.Henry VIII

D.Queen Elizabeth

17.________ 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

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

A.Plato

B.Socrates

C.Aristotle

D.Cicero

二、多选题 (共 5 道试题,共 20 分)

19.In Italy in early 17th century, many ______were on Spanish invaders' Side

A.peasants

B.workers

C.lords

D.priests

20.Marxism was linked to a great intellectual tradition, such as_________

A.German post-Kantian philosophy

B.English classical political economy

C.18th century English Enlightenment

D.early 19th century European Socialism

21.Choose two most famous pictures painted by Leonardo da Vinci.

A.Mona Lisa

B.David

C.Last Supper

D.Lady with an Ermine

22._______ touched the origins of the animal world and man.

A.Lyell

B.Newton

C.Marx

D.Lamarck

23.What great changes does the Industrial Revolution bring about?

A.the introduction of machines

B.the substitution of steam power for water, wind, and animal power

C.the change from manufacturing in the home to the factory system

D.new and faster method of transportation on land and on water

三、判断题 (共 2 道试题,共 8 分)

24.In the 12th and 13th century, the real scientific steps advanced.

25.In Amos we can hear clearly the angry voice of laboring people.

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