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Part I
Directions: 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.
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1. _________ believed that the highest
good in life was pleasure, freedom from pain
and emotional upheaval.
A. Sophists
B. Cynics
C.
Skeptics
D. Epicureans
2. _________
is said to have told the king of Syracuse:
I will move the world.
A.
Archimedes
B. Aristotle
C. Plato
D. Euclid
3.
Increasingly
troubled
by
the
inroads
of
northem
tribes
such
as
Goths,
the
West
Roman
Empire finally collapsed in _________
A.
395
B. 27
C. 1453
D. 476
4.
The City of God
was written by ________, the most
important of all the leaders of
Christian thought.
A.
Jesus
B.
Augustine
C. Thomas Aquinas
D. Martin Luther
5. _________ was a painter, a sculptor,
an architect, a musician, an engineer,
and a
scientist----- a
Renaissance man in the true sense of the word.
A. Michelangelo
B. Raphael
C. Shakespeare
D.
Leonardo Da Vinci
6.
In
_______,
Cervantes
satirized
a
very
popular
type
of
literature
at
the
time,
the
romance
of chivalry.
A.
Don Quixote
B.
Hamlet
C.
Leviathan
D.
The Life and Surprising Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe
7. The best-
known book written by Thomas More is ________ ,
which describes an
ideal non-Christian
state where everybody lives a simple life and
shares the goods in
common, possesses a
good knowledge of Latin, fights no war and enjoys
full freedom
in religious belief.
A.
The Praise of
the Folly
B.
As You Like It
C.
Divine Comedy
D.
Utopia
8.
________,
author
of
Prince
,
is
regarded
as
of
political
science
in
the
West.
A.
Machiavelli
B. Dante
C. Bacon
D.
Locke
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9. In
The Revolution of Heavenly
Orbs
,________ put forward his theory
that the sun,
not the earth, is the
center of the universe.
A. Kepler
B.
Galileo
C. Newton
D. Copernicus
10. During the _________ century, the
modern scientific method began to take shape,
which
emphasized
observation
and
experimentation
before
formulating
a
final
explanation or
generalization.
A.
18
th
B. 15
th
C. 16
th
D.
17
th
11. _______
said,
A.. Isaac
Newton
B. Francis
Bacon
C. John Locke
D.
Marx
12. In
Faust
,_______ drew on an
immense variety of cultural material----
theological,
mythological,
philosophical,
political,
economic,
scientific,
aesthetic,
musical,
and
literary.
A. Goethe
B. Defoe
C. Rousseau
D.
Byron
13. Which of the following is not
regarded as a romantic writer?
A. Wordsworth
B. Shelley
C. Pushkin
D. Balzac
14.
The
most
frequent
themes
of
Romanticism
include
all
of
the
following
except
_________.
A.
the power of reason
B.
individual freedom
C.
spontaneity
D. love of nature
15.
Wind
A. Wordsworth
B. Keats
C. Pushkin
D.
Shelley
16. The composer of
Swan Lake
was ____, a genius
in symphonic music.
A.
Tchaikovsky
B. Chopin
C. Beethoven
D. Mozart
17. The naturalist
school founded by Zola in late 19
th
century intended ________.
A. to attack the industrial
injustice and urban evils
B.
to give full play to the imagination of
individuals
C.
to
uphold
the
classical
values
such
as
harmony,
balance,
proportion
and
retraint
D. to demonstrate the law of human
conduct by a scientific study of
life
18. Which of the
following novels was not written by Tolstoy?
A.
Resurrection
B.
War and Peace
C.
Crime and
Punishment
D.
Anna
Karenina
19.
In
his
poems,
Walt
Whitman
sang
praises
of
all
of
the
following
value
except
________.
A.
democracy
B. the dignity
of the individual
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C. the idyllic way of life
D. the brotherhood of man
20. Modernism was characterized by
________.
A. a conscious
rejection of established rules, traditions and
conventions
B. the
exploration of the inner life of the individual
and the psychopathology of
human
relations
C. its intense
interest in the bizarre, the mysterious, the
unpredictable and the
formless
D. all of the above.
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1. Greek culture reached a high point
of development in _________.
A. 1,200 B.C.
B. 5th century B. C.
C. 4th century B.C.
D. 146 B. C.
2. The masterpiece of engineering in
Roman architecture is
_________.
A.
the Pathenon
B.
the Colossseum
C. She-wolf
D. the Ionic style of
temple
3. The Old Testament of the
Bible is about
_________.
A. God
B.
the doctrine of Jesus Christ
C. the Laws of God
D. A and C
4.
Which of the following statements is true?
A. Jesus was born in
Galilee.
B. Jesus was
born in a synagogue.
C.
Jesus was born into a poor ca
rpenter’s
family.
D.
Jesus was born into a merchant’s
family.
5. Feudalism in
Europe was mainly a system of _________.
A. military service
B. land holding
C. government
D. B and C
6. Which of the
following statements is true about the Gothic
style in architecture?
A.
The Gothic style flourished in the 18th century.
B. The Gothic style started
in France.
C. Sculpture of
Gothic style churches were based on the natural
forces.
D. Gothic style
churches were solid but small.
7.
Renaissance means the revival of interest in
_________.
A. ancient
Greek culture
B. ancient
Roman culture
C. the Bible
D.
A and B
8. The reasons for the decline
of renaissance in Italy are
_________.
A.
wars and class conflicts
B.
loss
of
supremacy
in
world
trade
as
a
result
of
the
discovery
of
the
new
world and routes to India
C. the tightening of control of the
Roman Catholic Church over thought, speech
and publication
D.
all of the above
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9. Which of the following died a
prisoner?
A. Copernicus
B. Newton
C. Kepler
D.
Galileo
10. The theory of
the social contract was expounded by _________.
A. Thomas Hobbes
B. Francis Bacon
C. John Locke
D. A and C
11.
In economic thought, the enlightenment thinkers
favored _________.
A.
government intervention
B. balanced development
C. the policy of laissezfaire
D. strict
regulation
12. The author
of
_________.
A. Goethe
B. Defoe
C. Schiller
D.
Kant
13. The Lakers refer
to
_________.
A. Wordsworth and Coleridge
B. Byron and
Shelly
C. William
Blake and Keats
D.
None of the above
14. The
later Romantics in music refer to
_________.
A.
Schuman and Chopin
B. Verdi and Wagner
C. Beethoven and Mozart
D. Haydn and Bach
15. In
Capital
,
Marx, after long and careful study, discovered
that
_________.
A. it is men’s social being that
determines their consciousness
B. activity is basic
C. socialism would be
realized through class struggle
D. surplus value is the source of the
wealth of the capitalist class
16. The
essence of Darwin’s theory of evolution is
_________.
A. immutable fixity of
species
B. natural
selection
C. artificial
selection
D. none of the
above
17.
_________.
A.
Dostoyevsky
B. Gogol
C.
Corky
D. Chekhov
18.
Which of the following was not written by Charles
Dickens?
A.
David Copperfield
B.
Hard
Times
C.
Vanity Fair
D.
Oliver Twist
19.
The author of
_________.
A. Henry James
B. Virginia
Woolf
C. T.S. Eliot
D. D.H.
Lawrence
20. One of the
chief representatives of the Theatre of the Absurd
is
_________.
A. Kinsley Amis
B. John Osborne
C. Allen Ginsberg
D. Samuel Beckett
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1.
Socrates was _________.
A. the teacher
of Aristotle
B.
the student of Plato
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C. the teacher of Plato
D. the student of Aristotle
2. One of the contributions the Romans
made to European culture was _________.
A. the Roman empire
B.
the slave system
C. the
production of the great epic writer
D. the Roman law
3. The
Book of Daniel
describes
_________.
A. the struggle of the Jews
against the Syrian rule
B.
the prisoners in Babylon
C. the story of
Noah
’s
Ark
D. the rule of
King Solomon
4. The Old Testament was
originally written in _________.
A.
Hebrew
B. Aramaic
dialect
C. Greek
D. Latin
5. Which of the following is not
included in the Code of Chivalry?
A. Loyalty to his lord.
B.
Fighting for the church.
C. Protection
of the people.
D. Respect for women of
noble birth.
6. The goal of the
Crusades was_________.
A. to re-
control Jerusalem
B. to open path to
Byzantine
C. to regain the Holy land
--- Palestine
D. to open
trade route to the east
7. The essence
of Renaissance philosophy was _________.
A. the emphasis on the greatness of man
B. the
glorification of God
C. the emphasis on
the giving up of worldly pleasure
D. the importance of wealth
8.
Leonardo da
Vinci, in his lifetime, put down his observation
in notebooks running
up to _________
volumes.
A. 1, 000
B. 5, 000
C. 3, 000
D. 4, 000
9.
A. John Locke
B.
Francis Bacon
C. Isaac Newton
D. Gotffried Wilhelm yon
Leibniz
10. The most important point in
Descartes
’
philosophy is
_________.
A. I think
therefore I am
B. I use my
senses therefore I am
C.
I doubt therefore I am
D.
None of the above
11. The most
important forerunners of the Enlightenment were
_________.
A.
V
oltaire and Rousseau
B. Diderot and
Montesquieu
C.
John Locke and Isaac Newton
D. None of the above
12.
Which of the following remarks was made by
Rousseau?
A.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all
men are created equal.
（
The Declaration of
Independence
美国的《独立宣言》
）
B.
The
thirst
after
happiness
is
never
extinguished
in
the
heart
of
man.
（
Rousseau
卢梭）
C. Love truth, but pardon error.
(V
oltaire
伏尔泰
)
D. Liberty consists in the
freedom to do everything which injures no one
else.
(Declaration of the Rights of Man
and of the Citizen
（
1789
）
法国的《人权宣言》
)
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13.
Romanticism was a movement in Europe _________.
A. in the late
19th century and early 20th century
B. in the 19th century
C. in the late
17th century and early 18th century
D. in the late 18th century
and early 19th century
14. The two most
important works of Victor Hugo’s are
_________.
A.
Atala
and
Rene
< br>（
Chateaubriand
夏多布里昂）
B.
Ivanhoe
and
The
Heart of Mid
–
lothian
Walter S
cott
的《艾凡赫》又译《撒克逊劫后英雄传》以及《中洛辛郡的心脏》
C.
Notre Dame de Paris
and
Les Miserables
D.
Eugene Onegin
and
Boris Godunov
普希金
pushkin
的《叶甫盖尼
·
奥涅金》和《鲍里斯
·
戈都诺夫》
15. The man who
applied Darwi
n’s evolution to society
was_________.
A. Yah Fu
B. Thomas Huxley
C. Alfred Russel Wallace
D. Herbert
Spencer
16. According to
Marx
，
the most important
thing about Feuerbach was _________.
A. he proclaimed
materialism
B.
he supported Hegel
C. he supported the utopian socialists
D.
he put forward the idea of class struggle
17.
A. van Gogh
B. Paul Gauguin
C. Claude Monet
D. Gustave
Courbet
18. Which of the
following works is not written by Thomas Hardy?
A.
Far from the Madding Crowd.
B.
The Return of
the Native.
C.
Tess of the
d'Urberyvilles.
D.
A
Tale of Two Cities
.
19. William Butler Yeats was a(n)
_________ poet.
A. English
B. Scottish
C. American
D. Irish
20.
Portrait
of
the
Artist
as
a
Young
Man
was
an
autobiographical
novel
by
_________.
A. Ezra Pound
B. William Faulkner
C. James Joyce
D.
Ernest Hemingway
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1. Which of the following is not true
about Aristotle?
A.
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
and
other
subjects.
2. Which of the
following statements is true about the Roman
Empire?
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A. The Roman Empire had never been
divided.
B. The Roman
Empire was divided into East and West in 395 A. D.
C. The Roman Empire was
later called Byzantium.
D.
The Roman Empire was conquered by the Turks in the
15th century.
3. The Bible has been
regarded as __________.
A.
a religious book
B.
literature
C. record of
great minds
D. all of the
above
4. The Catholic Church should be
characterized as__________.
A. a loosely organized religious
institution
B. a highly
centralized European organization
C. a highly centralized and disciplined
international organization
D.
a highly centralized and disciplined western
organization.
5. The Crusades were wars
between __________.
A. the Arabs
and the Christian Pilgrims
B.
the Turks and the Christians in Western Europe
C. the Christians in
Western Europe and the Moslems
D. the Arabs and the Turks
6. St. Thomas Aquinas defended in his
works __________.
A. feudal hierarchy of society
B.
divine power of feudal rulers
C. the Pope' s supremacy over secular
rulers
D. all of the above
7. The
motto Montaigne put down in the essays was
__________.
A. What do I know?
B. I doubt therefore I
think.
C. Give me a
place to stand, and I will move the world.
D. Only to stand out of my
light.
8. Vasco da Gama was a
Portuguese navigator who __________.
A. discovered
the Cape of Good Hope
B.
discovered the route to India round the Cape of
Good Hope
C. explored the
mouth of the Amazon
D.
was the first to visit Cuba and Haiti
9. Which of the following laws was
discovered by Newton?
A. Law of buoyancy.
B. Law of
falling bodies.
C.
Law of relativity.
D. Law of universal
gravitation.
10.
In
Locke'
s
political
philosophy,
the
chief
reason
for
the
institution
of
civil
government was
__________.
A. the
protection of private property
B. the
upholding of free thinking
C.
the abolishment of the rule of the church
D. regulation of economy
11.
Which
of
the
following
is
not
true
about
the
developments
of
the
Industrial
Revolution?
A.
The substitution of water power for human power.
B. The introduction of
machine.
C. The
beginning of the factory system.
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D. The growth
of modem capitalism and the working class.
12.
is
born
free,
and
everywhere
he
is
in
chains.
is
a
remark
made
by
__________.
A.
V
oltaire
B. Rousseau
C. Diderot
D.
Moliere
13. In the works of __________,
one can see the spirit of the Age of Reason.
A. Handel
B. Haydn
C.
Bach
D. Mozart
14.
The
poem
of
Byron'
s
that
was
translated
into
Chinese
at
the
turn
of
the
20th
century is __________.
A.
Don Juan
B.
Defence of
Poetry
C.
Ode to a Nightingale
D.
Isles of Greece
15.
Throughout
his
life,
Beethoven
struggled
to
pass
on
through
his
music
__________.
A.
the spirit of the French Revolution
B.
the spirit of Byronic heroes
C. ideas of a moral nature
D. the praise of natural beauty
16. __________ is considered to be the
poet of the piano.
A.
Mozart
B.
Chopin
rt
D. Schumann
17. Which of the
following works was not written by Charles
Dickens?
A. A Tale of
Two Cities.
B. The Mayor of Casterbridge.
C. David Copperfield.
D. Pickwick Papers.
18. The author of the short story
The Necklace
was __________.
A. O' Henry
B. Jack London
C.
Mark Twain
D. Maupassant
19.
the
crowd/Petals
on a wet,
black bough.
author of these lines was
__________.
A.
William Faulkner
B. Ezra Pound
C.
T. S. Eliot
D. William Butler Yeats
20.
__________was
regarded
as
the
greatest
Russian
literary
figure
of
the
20th
century.
A. Sholokhov
B. Tolstoy
C. Chekhov
D. Gorky
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I. The contribution of
ancient Greeks to world civilization is _________
A. Athenian democracy
B. The Olympic
Games
C. The epics of
Homer
D. All of the above
2. Which
of the following is true about Herodotus?
A. He is called
B. He wrote about the wars between
Athens and Sparta.
C. He contributed
greatly to tragic art.
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D. He used clever parody in his
writing.
3. Genesis of the Old
Testament tells about __________
A.
the fall of man
B. the creation
of the world
C.
Noah
’s
Ark
D. all of the
above.
4. The leader of the slave
uprising in 73 B. C. was _________
A.
Nero
B. Moses
C.
Spartacus
D. Abraham
5.
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
6. The main classes
under feudalism in Western Europe were __
A. monks, lords and townspeople
B. clergy, knights and
peasants
C. knights, peasants and
townspeople
D.
clergy, lords and peasants
7. Which of
the following is not true about Dante?
A. Dante was a great Italian poet.
B.
Dante wrote Beowulf.
C.
Dante wrote his masterpiece in Italian.
D. Dante was a
great political thinker.
8.
John Wycliffe was twice condemned as a heretic
because of __________
A.
his teaching philosophy at Oxford
B. his vigorous attack on orthodox
church doctrines
C.
his clerical associations and activities
D. A&C
9.
Scientists
in
the
17th
century,
such
as
Galileo
and
Newton,
attached
great
importance to ________
A.
deductive reasoning
B. classical authority
C.
direct observation and experiment
D. humanist
learning
10. The method that Francis
Bacon introduced in inquiry was _________.
A. practical
B. deductive reasoning
C. induction
D. experiment
11. The characteristic of Dutch art in
the early 17th century was ________.
A. that it was still mainly religious
paintings
B. that it
recorded the familiar scenes and everyday life of
the time
C. that it was
mainly portraits of noble families
D. that the theme was mainly court life
12. Who was the first one to put
forward the doctrine of separation of powers?
A. Locke
B. Hobbes
C. V
oltaire
D. Montesquieu
13.
Diderot is
best known as ________.
A.
the author of
Persian
Letter
s
（
< br>Montesquieu
）
B. the author of
the Origin
of Human Inequality
（
Rousseau
）
C. the editor of the
Encyclopedie
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D. the author of
Philosophical Thoughts
(Diderot)
14. The lines
written by
_______.
A. William
Blake
B. Schiller
C.
Byron
D.
Keats
15.
stood in the
van of the Romantic movement in Russia.
A. Pushkin
B. Lermontov
C.
Chekhov
D. Turgenev
16.
A work jointly written by Marx and Engels is
________.
A.
Capital
B.
The Manifesto of the Communist
Party
C.
Thesis on Feuerbach
D.
Socialism: Utopian and
Scientific
17. Which author
won the Nobel Prize in 1925?
A. Thomas Hardy
B. George Eliot
C. George Bernard Shaw
D. Henry James
18. Which
novel was acclaimed as the greatest of all anti-
slavery manifestoes'?.
A.
Leaves of Grass
B.
Uncle Tom's
Cabi
n
C.
The Portrait of a Lady
D.
Dead
Souls
19. _______ was the
discoverer of X - rays.
A.
Rontgen
B. Madame Curie
C. Rutherford
D. Einstein
20. The author of The Interpretation of
Dreams was
A. T. S. Eliot
B. James Joyce
C.
D. H.
Lawrence
D. Sigmund Freud
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1. Who were considered as
people by the ancient Athens?
A. Women citizens
B. Adults
C. Adult male citizens
D. Foreigners and children
2. Which of the following is true
about
Dialogues
?
A. Dialogues was a book
written by Socrates.
B. Dialogues was a record of life of
Plato.
C.
Dialogues was a record of Socrates written by
Plato.
D.
Dialogues was a record of Socrates's sayings by
his followers.
3. The great deed that
David performed was ____.
A. he took the Hebrews back to Canaan
B. he killed
Goliath, the philistine giant
C. he went to the top of
the mountain in Sinai to receive message from (~d
D. none of the
above
4. In the early
days of Christianity, it was a religion
of _____.
A.
the rich
B. the poor
C. the ruling class
D. all people
5. Which of the following statements
about knighthood is not true?
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A. A nobleman was born a knight.
B. Knighthood
had to be earned.
C. One had to be trained in order to
become a knight.
D. After being dubbed a knight, he had
to observe the Code of Chivalry.
6. The
Inquisition was ______
A. a church
court set up to try heretics
B. an
organization for church investigation
C. a court in many kingdoms
D. the decision - making body of the
church
7. Art to Michelangelo was a
means by which_____.
A. he expressed his opposition to the
despotic rule
B. he made inquiry into the reality
C. he expressed
his vision of man
D. B and C
8. Counter-
Reformation means that the Roman Catholic Church
_____.
A.
suppressed the Reformation movement by force
B. refused to
accept any reform
C.
re-established
itself
as
a
dynamic
force
in
European
affairs
by
introducing
reforms and improvements
D. ganged up with the
Spanish monarchy to set up the Inquisition
9. Kepler's contribution to astronomy
is
A. his
discovery of the law of inertia
B. his discovery of the
Ptolemaic system
C. his discovery of the three laws of
planetary motion
D. none of the above
10. In
Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
stated that .__
A. all our knowledge sprang from
experience
B.
knowledge was power
C. every man was enemy to every man
D. the world
was made up of simple, active substances
11. The symbolic event of the French
Revolution in 1789 was _____.
A. the issuance of the
Declaration of Independence
B. the founding of the
First Republic
C. the seizure of the Bastille
D. the
publication of
The Spirit of the
Laws
12. V
oltaire
was noted for his_____.
A. wit
B. satire
C. passion
D. A and B
13. In
Critique of Pure Reason
,
Kant argued that________.
A. knowledge is the joint product of
both sense and reason
B. creation is never complete; it is
ever going on
C. virtue can be sustained without
religious belief
D. man's greatest ills are not natural
but are made by man himself
14.
The Lyrical Ballads
was
written by _________.
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A. Shelley
B. Wordsworth and Coleridge
C. Blake and Keats
D. Byran and Shelley
15. The line
A. Wordsworth
B.
Byron
C. Keats
D. Blake
16. In developing Marxist philosophy,
Marx and Engels accepted _______ in German
classical philosophy.
A. Hegel's dialectics
B. Feuerbach's metaphysics
C. Feuerbach's materialism
D.
A and C
17. Balzac's monumental work
was ________.
A. Divine Comedy
B. The Human
Comedy
C. The
Brothers Karamazov
D. Les
Miserables
18. The author of
A Doll's House
was ________.
A. George
Bernard Shaw
B. Chekhov
C. Henric Ibsen
D.
Leo Tolstoy
19. Which of the following
works was written by William Faulkner?
A.
The Waste
Land
B.
Dubliners
C.
Cantos
D.
The Sound and the Fury
20. The poem
Howl
was written by ________.
A. Kingsley Amis
B.
John Osborne
C. Allen Ginsberg
D.
Ezra Pound
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