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绪论 单元测试

1、One of the founders of Western philosophy once said, “I know one thing that I know nothing.” Who is the man? （）

A:Plato

B:Aristoteles

C:Socrates

D:Cicero

正确答案:【Socrates】

2、Who has put forwarded the theory that cultural and religious identities will be the primary sources of conflict in the post-Cold War world, and there would be two major Clashes? （）

A:Joseph S. Nye

B:John Mearsheimer

C:John King Fairbank

D:Samuel Huntington

正确答案:【Samuel Huntington】

第一章 单元测试

1、Walking Stick Dependency Syndrome means you rely too much on Chinese to understand English, like walking with a stick. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【对】

2、One of the pillars of Chinese foreign policy today is President Xi’s initiative of Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【对】

3、Dionysus is the son of Zeus, God of wine, festivity, ecstasy and madness, patron god of the art of theatre. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【对】

4、In 510 bc, “the father of Athenian democracy” Socrates reformed the Athenian constitution and made Athens a democratic state. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【错】

5、In 490 BC, Persians invaded Greece but the Athenians defeated the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【错】

7、Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Africa and Asia. It is on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula. What is the name of the sea to the east? （）

A:The Mediterranean Sea

B:The Ionian Sea

C:The Sea of Crete

D:The Aegean Sea

正确答案:【The Aegean Sea】

8、In Delphi, all Greeks go to a temple of a god for oracles and they asked the god for advice or prophecy. A priestess would give an answer on behalf of the god, which called an oracle. Who is the god? （）

A:Apollo

B:Zeus

C:Dionysus

D:Athena

正确答案:【Apollo】

9、With population increase and urbanization, Greek polis (city-states) emerged. For purpose of defense, many city-states construct a kind of building to protect the city. What is the building? （）

A:Metropolis

B:Acropolis

C:necropolis

D:cosmopolis

正确答案:【Acropolis】

10、In 594 bc, a merchant _____ was given the right to create a new constitution and his reforms laid the foundations for Athenian democracy. （）

A:Pericles

B:Solon

C:Draco

D:Thales

正确答案:【Solon】

第二章 单元测试

2、The 5th century bc of Athens called the Golden Age of Athens when Athens became the super power with political and economic hegemony, and one reason of this was that Athens had a great leader ______. （）

A:Pericles

B:Cleisthenes

C:Solon

D:Herodotus

正确答案:【Pericles】

3、Who is the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first school of higher learning in the Western world? （）

A:Socrates

B:Plato

C:Aristotle

D:Cicero

正确答案:【Plato】

4、Sophocles wrote a play named _, which told us a sad story of the king of Thebes killed his father and married his mother. （）

A:Antigone the king

B:Oedipus the King

C:Agamemnon the king

D:Odysseus the king

正确答案:【Oedipus the King】

5、Alexander the Great died in _____ bc, which marked the end of Classical Greece and the beginning of the Hellenistic Greece. （）

A:330

B:315

C:323

D:321

正确答案:【323】

6、Roman politician Cicero called Herodotus “The Father of History,” and his book The History was the founding work of history in the West. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【对】

7、In ancient Greece, hegemony means the political and military dominance of a city-state over other city-states rather than a derogatory term in the Chinese translation, which means to bully or to be a tyrant, but in English, it has no negative meaning. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【对】

8、In the Hellenistic world, Greek culture dominated only in Greece and Macedonia not in Egypt and west Asia. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【错】

9、Alexander the Great was taught by Plato and he is widely considered as one of the most successful military commanders in the history and never lost in battle. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【错】

10、In 371bc, Sparta invaded Thebes but lost the war. Next year Thebes invaded the Peloponnesus. They first took Messenia, the source of Spartan wealth, and then conquered Sparta, destroyed its military power. Sparta never recovered and Thebes filled the power vacuum left by Sparta. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【对】

第三章 单元测试

2、Roman epic The Aeneid was written by . （）

A:Horace

B:Virgil

C:Ovid

D:Cicero

正确答案:【Virgil】

3、The Punic Wars were a series of wars fought between the Roman Republic and Carthage. （）

A:two

B:three

C:four

D:five

正确答案:【three】

4、Who was declared an enemy of the state by the Second Triumvirate and was executed in 43 bc? （）

A:Cicero

B:Catiline

C:Caesar

D:Marius

正确答案:【Cicero】

5、In the late Republic, there were two factions in the political arena. One faction was a group of politicians called the , meaning “the best ones.” （）

A:Patricians

B:Plebeians

C:Optimates

D:Populares

正确答案:【Optimates】

6、The historical event of Rape of Lucretia marked the end of the Roman Kingdom and the start of the Roman Republic. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【对】

7、The Society of the Roman Republic is highly hierarchical, the ruling class is Plebeians. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【错】

8、Marius allied with the Plebeian Tribune Sulpicius Rufus, forced the Senate passing a bill transferring the command from Sulla to Marius. Sulla refused and marched his six legions of 35,000 men on Rome, and then Marius fled to Afirca. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【对】

9、The Roman Triumph was a ceremony to celebrate the success of a military commander who had led Roman army to great victory. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【对】

10、Optimates wanted to strengthen the power of the Plebeian Assembly and Plebeian Tribune. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【错】

第四章 单元测试

2、Octavian died in 14 ad at the age of 75. The period he ruled called the ______ age. （）

A:Augustan

B:Golden

C:Octavian

D:Caesar

正确答案:【Augustan】

3、Which emperor’s death in 180 ad marked the end of the 200-year Pax Romana? （）

A:Nero

B:Commodus

C:Marcus Aurelius

D:Augustus

正确答案:【Marcus Aurelius】

4、Who was traditionally counted as the first Bishop of Rome‍ or Pope‍. （）

A:Saint John

B:Saint Andrew

C:Saint Peter

D:Saint Paul

正确答案:【Saint Peter】

5、The Byzantine Empire was the Hellenistic world, from the early 6th century became the official language.（）

A:Greek

B:Latin

C:Arabic

D:Roman

正确答案:【Greek】

6、The Pax Romana in Latin means “_______.” （）

A:Roman law

B:Roman people

C:Roman Peace

D:Roman Victory

正确答案:【Roman Peace】

7、The Italian Renaissance political philosopher Machiavelli called the first five emperors of the Nerva–Antonine Dynasty Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius “Five Good Emperors.” （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【对】

8、On the third day after the death of Jesus Christ came the Crucifixion, he came back to life. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【错】

9、The Bible is the holy book of Christianity. The second part of it is the New Testament, written in the common Roman language, deals with the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as well as events in the first-century Christianity. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【错】

10、The Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople in 1553. （）

A:对

B:错

正确答案:【错】

第五章 单元测试

2、Who was the first king of the House of Valois? （）

A:Philip III

B:Edward III

C:Charles IV

D:Philip VI

正确答案:【Philip VI】

3、Which king launched the Hundred Years’ War (1346-1453)? He was from the House of Plantagenet and he transformed England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe. （）

A:Philip III

B:Edward III

C:Charles IV

D:Philip VI

正确答案:【Edward III】

4、Most historians regard the coronation of in 987 as the beginnings of modern France, and he was the first King of modern France. （）

A:Charlemagne

B:Hugh Capet

C:Otto the Great

D:Henry I the Fowler