欧洲文化常识测试英语题型
《欧洲文化入门》复习题（一）
Division One: Greek Culture and Roman Culture Greek Culture
I.填空
1.European culture is made up of many elements, two of the elements are considered to be
more enduring and they are the Greco-Roman element and the Judeo-Christian element.
2.Greek culture reached a high point of development in the 5th century.
3.In the cond half of the 4th century B. C., all Greece was brought under the rule of Alexander,
king of Macedon.
4.In 146 B. C. the Romans conquered Greece.
鲁滨逊漂流记封面5.Greek culture reached a high point of development in the 5th century.
6.Revived in 1896, the Olympic Games have become the world’s foremost amateur sports
competition.
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7.Ancient Greeks considered Homer to be the author of their epics.
8.The Iliad deals with the alliance of the states of the southern mainland of Greece, led by
Agamemnon in their war against the city of Troy.
9.The Odysy deals with the return of Odysus after the Trojan war to his home, island of
Ithaca.
10.Of the many lyric poets of ancient Greece, two are still admired by readers today: Sappho
and Pindar.
11.Sappho was considered the most important lyric poet of ancient Greece.
12.Pindar is best known for his odes celebrating the victories at the athletic games, such as the
14 Olympic odes.
13.The three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece are Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
14.Aeschylus wrote such plays as Prometheus Bound, Persians and Agamemnon.
15.Sophocles wrote such tragic plays as Oedipus the King, Electra, and Antigone.
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16.Euripides wrote mainly about women in such plays as Andromache, Medea, and Trojan
Women.
/doc/4a9322165.html,edy also flourished in the 5th century B. C.. Its best writer was Aristophanes, who has
left eleven plays, including Frogs, Clouds, Wasps and Birds.
18.Herodotus is often called ―Father of History‖. He wrote about the wars be tween Greeks and
Persians.
19.Thucydides described the war between Athens and Sparta and between Athens and Syracu,
a Greek state on the Island of Sicily.
20.Pythagoras was a bold thinker who had the idea that all things were numbers.
21.Pythagoras was the founder of scientific mathematics.
22.Heracleitue believed fire to the primary element of the univer, out of which everything el
had arin.
23.The greatest names in European philosophy are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
24.Democritus was one of the earliest philosophical materialists and speculated about the atomic
structure of matter.
25.In the 4th century B. C., four schools of philosophers often argued with each other, they are
the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, and the Stoics.
26.Euclid is well-known for his Elements, a textbook of geometry.
27.To illustrate the principle of the level, Archimedes is said to have told the king: ―Give me a
place to stand, and I will move the world.‖
28.Greek architecture can be grouped into three styles: the Doric style which is also called the
masculine style; the Ionic style which is also called the feminine style; and a later style that is called the Corinthian style.
29.The Acropolis at Athens and the Parthenon are the finest monument of Greek architecture and
sculpture in more than 2000 years.
30.In the 20th century, there are Homeric parallels in the Irishman James Joyce’s modern
ist
masterpiece Ulyss.
II.选择
1.Which culture reached a high point of development in the 5th century B. C.?
A.Greek Culture
B.Roman Culture
C.Egyptian Culture
D.Chine Culture
2.In ___________ the Roman conquered Greece.
A.1200
B.
C.
B.700 B.
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C.146 B. C.
D.The 5th century期货合约
3.Which of the following works described the war led by Agamemnon against the city of Troy?
A.Oedipus the King
B.Iliad
吉祥果论坛C.Odysy
D.Antigone
4.Which of the following is NOT the plays written by Aeschylus?
A.Antigone
B.Agamemnon
C.Persians
D.Prometheus Bound
5.Which of the following is NOT the plays written by Sophocles?
A.Electra
B.Antigone
C.Trojan Woman
D.Oedipus the King
6.Which of the following is the play written by Euripides?
时事热点A.Antigone
亲爱的我永远爱你B.Persians
C.Electra
D.Medea
7.Which of the following is NOT the greatest tragic dramatist of ancient Greece?
A.Aristophanes
B.Euripides
C.Sophocles
D.Aeschylus
8.Who ever said that ―You can not step twice into the same river‖?
