北语网院21秋《阅读（III）》作业_3题目及答案
21秋《阅读（III）》作业_31.[单选题] The ancestors of the Jews are called Hebrews which mean ________
A.wanderers
B. travelers
C. traders
D. merchants
答:——A——
2.[单选题] "Bring war to Asia, bring wealth back to Greece"_____ was the foundation of the empire that straddled Europe, Asia and Africa
A. Pericles
B. Charlie Matt
C. Alexander
D. Octavian
答:——C——
3.[单选题] One of the most striking manifestations of the supremacy of the Normanconquerors of England was to be seen in the__________.
A. language
B. religion
C. politics
D. social life
答:——A——
4.[单选题] Miranda is a heroine in Shakespea re’s ______.
A.
Pericles
B. Cymbeline
C.
The Winter’s Tale
D.
The Tempest
答:————
5.[单选题] In which aspect did England had stronger influence on the others? Which one of the<br/>following is not as suitable as the others.
A.philosophy
B. drama
C. poetry
D. architecture
答:————
6.[单选题] which of the following figures knows “ how to make beauty yield meaning and meaning yield beauty ” ?.
A.Boccaccio
B. Shakespeare
C. Raphael
D. Petrarch
答:————
7.[单选题] Christopher Columbus who first discovered the New Continent camefrom__________.
A.England
B. Portugal
C. Spain
D. Italy
答:————
8.[单选题] The characteristics of the architecture in the medieval period do NOTinclude__________.
A. massiveness
B. monumentality
C. ornateness
D. solidity
答:————
9.[单选题] After a Germanic general killed the last Roman emperor, and in the place of the ancient Rome rised many Germanic kingdoms, which grow into the nations known as __________. Which one does not belong to them?
A.England
B. Finland
C. Spain
D. Italy
答:————
10.[单选题]Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.
A. Flanders
B. France
C. Italy
D. Westminster Abbey
答:————
11.[单选题] The great contribution of St.Jerome was ________.
A.the building of monasteries
B. the translation of Old and New Testaments into Latin
C. the setting up of the church system
D. none of the above
答:————
12.[单选题] The New Testament is about ___________.
A.The laws of god
B. religious writings
C. doctrine of Jesus Christ
D. primitive laws
答:————
13.[单选题]________ 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
答:————
14.[单选题] ____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.
A. Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes
B.
Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets
C.
Don Quixote
D.
History of the World
答:————
15.[单选题]________ believed that the highest good in life was pleasure, freedom from pain and emotional upheaval.
A.Sophists
B. Cynics
C. Sceptics
D. Epicureans
答:————
16.[单选题]______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.
A. Langland
B. Gower
C. Wycliffe
D. Chaucer
答:————
17.[单选题] In __________, a whole generation of poets, scholars, artists and sculptors wasgiven birth to and prosperously developed there.
A.Venice
B. London
C. Florence
D. Milan
答:————
18.[单选题] For two centuries beginning from the late fifteenth century,________ was the golden city which gave birth to a whole generation of poets, scholars,artists and sculptors.
A.Milan
B. Florence
C. Venice
D. the papal states
答:————
19.[单选题]The English poet Alexander Pope once wrote:Nature and Nature ’ laws lay hid in night.God said, “ let________ be ” , and all was light.
A.Copernicus
B. Kepler
C. Newton
D. Einstein
答:————
20.[单选题] Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.
A. The Romaunt of the Rose
B. “A Red, Red Rose”
C. The Legend of Good Women
D. The Book of the
Duchess
答:————
21.[单选题] The Reformation began in the year of__________in__________.
A. 1534, France
B.1517, Germany
C. 1534, Rome
D. 1517, Italy
答:————
22.[单选题] To the pilgrims of Christianity, Jewish people and Muslims, __________ is themost holy place for them to fight with each other.
A.Mecca
B. Jerusalem
C. Canaan
D. Palestine
答:————
23.[单选题] Western Europeans were mainly divided into three classes under feudalism. Whichone of the following is not one of them?
A.clergy
B. lords
C. merchants
D. peasants
答:————
24.[单选题] Walt Whitman's_________ expresses his grief over the death of Lincoln.
A. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd
B. I Sit and Look Out
C. Song of Myself
D. The Soul
答:————
25.[单选题] _____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.
A.Christopher Marlow
B. Francis Bacon
C. W. Shakespeare
D. Ben Johnson
答:————
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