英语语言与文化(选修课)试题库及答案

This quiz is for the students from the English Language & Culture class hosted by Sun Xiaolong.

* Vocabulary and Structure

1. There were also famous and very smart masterminds in the history of the western world, as in the sayings like: (Key: B, Points: 2) A: Even Athena sometimes makes mistakes. B: Even Homer sometimes nod.

C: Athena even sometimes make mistakes. D: Homer even sometimes nods.

2. Places of the ancient Greek civilization include ___________ (Key: A, Points: 2)

A: Crete, Ithaca, Mycenae B: Egypt, Greece, Rome C: Crete, Troy, Egypt

D: Egypt, Troy, Asia Minor

3. \"_________\" is the word we use today to say the world sports games held once in four years. (Key: B, Points: 2) A: Olympus B: Olympiad C: Olympian D: Olympia

4. \"________________\" is a creative problem solving competition involving students from kindergarten through college. (Key: A, Points: 2) A: Odyssey of the Mind B: Mental Journey C: Mental Way D: Way of the Mind

5. There are two morphemes in the word \"Pantheon\and \"theo-\" as also in \"____________\". (Key: C, Points: 2) A: pants, theory B: Pandora, theology C: pan-America, theology D: pan-Pacific, thermometer

6. He would have made a good pilot but his drinking habit was his _____________. (Key: D, Points: 2)

A: Hector's tendon

B: Achilles' tendon C: Hector's heel D: Achilles' heel

7. He was ________________ by visions of power and wealth. But he finally came to realize he could never reach any power or wealth. (Key: D, Points: 2) A: attracted B: tempted C: tantalused D: tantalized

8. The newspaper was covered with reports of the meeting of the three political ________ in the world. (Key: B, Points: 2) A: power B: titans C: gigants D: titanics

9. On the way home, Odysseus met some _______ singing beautifully. Now we still refer to a woman as a ________ when we think that she is attractive to men but dangerous in some way. (Key: D, Points: 2) A: bird women, bird B: spirits, spirit C: genies, genie D: sirens, siren

10. You can't imagine what a mess it was at the beginning. And the _______ state of all the affairs lasted for months actually. (Key: C, Points: 2) A: trouble B: ugly C: chaotic D: chaos

11. He is a regular church-goer. He goes to the campus _________ every Sunday morning. (Key: C, Points: 2) A: cathedral B: abbey C: chapel D: monastery

12. Abrahamic religions do not include _______________________________. (Key: A, Points: 2)

A: Buddhism B: Judaism

C: Christianity D: Islam

13. Trinity means the unity of ________________. (Key: B, Points: 2)

A: Holy God, Holy Jesus, and Holy Son B: Holy Father, Holy Son, and Holy Ghost C: Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, Holy Baby D: Holy God, Holy Angel, Holy Baby

14. The holy Bible is in two parts: the Old Testament, literally the contract between _____________; and the New Testament, literally the contract between _______________________. (Key: B, Points: 2) A: God and Jesus, God and Jews

B: God and Abraham, Jesus and Christian people C: God and Jews, Jesus and Jews

D: God and Christians, Jesus and Christians

15. The administrative body of the Catholic Church in Rome is ____________. (Key: A, Points: 2)

A: Holy See B: Holy Seat C: Holy Church D: St. Peter's

16. Which of the following words does not fit into the group? (Key: C, Points: 2)

A: cross B: crusade C: crude D: crucify

17. Which of the following is not the term to say Jesus Christ? (Key: D, Points: 2)

A: God's son B: Savior C: Messiah D: Holy Spirit

18. Canaan, the promised land of ____________________, is for Abraham's people. (Key: C, Points: 2)

A: fertility B: fish and rice C: milk and honey

D: wealth

19. St. Patrick's Day is observed for St. Patrick who came first to __________ to christianize the land. (Key: D, Points: 2) A: England B: Britain C: America D: Ireland

20. St. Augustine of Canterbury was the first ______________ of Canterbury Cathedral. (Key: D, Points: 2)

A: head B: pope C: bishop D: archbishop

21. Weddings, coronations, funerals of The British royal family are usually held in _______________. (Key: C, Points: 2) A: Canterbury Cathedral

B: any local church in London C: Westminster Abbey D: Buckingham Palace

22. The groups that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation do not include ___________________. (Key: A, Points: 2)

A: Orthodox Church B: Protestants C: Puritans

D: Anglican Church

23. English language is closely related to ______________. (Key: D, Points: 2)

A: Greek B: Latin C: Italian D: German

24. Alfred the great was the king of _____________________________. (Key: B, Points: 2)

A: Essux B: Wessex C: Sussex D: Kent

25. The last king of Wessex House was _________________. (Key: D, Points: 2)

A: Edward I B: Edward II C: Edward VIII

D: Edward the confessor

26. The first Norman king was _____________. (Key: B, Points: 2) A: Edward the confessor B: William the conqueror C: Richard the lionheart D: Edward I

27. _______________ is not in the legends of King Arthur. (Key: C, Points: 2)

A: Excalibar

B: Round-table knights C: Little John so free D: Lord Lancelot

28. Legends of Robin Hood are related to all but ________________. (Key: D, Points: 2)

A: Richard the lionheart B: King John

C: the Gay Green Woods D: Edward the longshanks

29. _______________ was the first to bear the title Prince of Wales. (Key: B, Points: 2)

A: Edward I B: Edward II C: Charles I D: Charles II

30. Words like \"request\\"pork\\"comprehend\" are of ___________ origin. (Key: C, Points: 2)

A: Anglo-Saxon B: Danish C: French D: Greek

31. Words like \"sky\\"ski\\"skin\" are from ________________ language. (Key: A, Points: 2)

A: Norse B: French

C: Anglo-Saxon D: Latin

32. Names ending with \"son\" as in \"Robinson\" to mean \"_______o mean \"___________\\"thorpe\" as in \"Westthorpe\" to mean \"__________\are of ____________ origin. (Key: B, Points: 2) A: son of, village, farm, Danish B: son of, farm, village, Danish C: son of, farm, village, Norse D: son of, village, farm, French

33. Jeffery Chaucer's language, as in Canterbury Tales, is _________________. (Key: B, Points: 2)

A: Old English B: Middle English

C: Early Modern English D: Later Modern English

34. Shakespeare's English is also known as __________________. (Key: B, Points: 2)

A: Late Modern English B: Elizabethan English C: Middle English D: Modern English

35. The Golden Age in British history refers to ________________. (Key: A, Points: 2)

A: Elizabethan Age B: Jacobean Age C: Victorian Age D: Norman Period

36. Guy Fawkes' Day has its origin in _______________. And Guy Fawkes was a _______________. (Key: D, Points: 2) A: the legends of Robin Hood, Christian B: Gun Powder Plot, puritan

C: the legends of King Arthur, protestant D: Gun Powder Plot, Catholic

37. The first English settlement in America was _________________________. (Key: B, Points: 2)

A: Plymouth

B: Jamestown C: Virginia

D: Massachusetts

38. The English settlement Plymouth was established by ________________. (Key: C, Points: 2)

A: people of King James I B: people of King Charles II C: Mayflower pilgrims D: Catholics

39. Which of the following is NOT from Poor Richard's Almanac? (Key: C, Points: 2)

A: Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead. B: No gains without pains. C: All that glitters is not gold.

D: Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

40. The Star Spangled Banner is the name of ___________________. (Key: A, Points: 2)

A: the American national anthem B: the American national flag

C: the song popular during the American civil war D: the flag of the British army

41. The purchase of Louisiana from _____________ in 1803 doubled the area of the U.S.. (Key: D, Points: 2) A: Great Britain B: Canada C: Mexico D: France

42. The 13 colonies in the New World made up what we now call New England, which include ________________. (Key: B, Points: 2) A: Florida

B: New Hampshire C: Texas D: California

43. Middle West was acquired from France after __________________. (Key: D, Points: 2)

A: the Second Revolutionary War B: the U.S.-Mexican War C: the U.S.-Spanish War

D: the French-Indian War

44. The White House and the Capitol were ever burned down by __________________. (Key: B, Points: 2)

A: the French soldiers during the French Indian War

B: the British soldiers during the Second Revolutionary War C: the South soldiers during the American Civil War D: the Spanish soldiers during the U.S.-Spanish War

45. \"___________\" refers to those who went to the west during the Gold Rush after the discovery of gold in 1848. (Key: B, Points: 2) A: Gold Rushers B: Forty-niners C: Gold miners D: Frontiers

46. The era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States in the late 19th century is known as _______________. (Key: B, Points: 2) A: the Golden Age B: the Gilded Age C: the Jazz Age D: Industrial Age

47. The Jazz Age in American history is featured by all except ________________. (Key: D, Points: 2)

A: Jazz Music

B: Prohibition of Alcohol C: Bootlegging

D: Industrial Revolution

48. There were assassinations of _______________________________ in the Turmoil Sixties. (Key: A, Points: 2)

A: John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King jr. B: John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King jr. C: Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King jr., Ronald Reagan D: Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan

* Cloze A (with choices)

Beauty, love and wisdom personified in Greek Mythology

According Greek mythology, Athena, the goddess of _____1_____, is attended by _____2____, the bird of ______1______ as is still believed by people in the West. She is also the goddess of _____3______ and accompanied by ______4_______, the goddess of ______5________. The ancient Greeks built the Parthenon to worship her also because she is the patron of the city of

______6_______. Besides Athena, there is another feminine deity, Aphrodite or _____7_____ as Romans would call her. She is the goddess of ______8_______, together with her own son (as believed by many) Cupid, god of erotic love and desire. Now we still have in English language the words _____9________ etymologically derived from the very name of Cupid, or Eros as his Greek name, or Amor as his Latin name. And Psyche, wife of Cupid, becomes the etymological source for words like ______10__________.

1. - (Key: D, Points: 2) A: love and beauty B: desire and lust C: wealth and health

D: wisdom and intelligence

2. - (Key: B, Points: 2) A: a robin B: an owl C: an eagle D: a crow

3. - (Key: A, Points: 2) A: heroic endeavour B: war and fight C: war and discord D: dispute and discord

4. - (Key: B, Points: 2) A: Discordia B: Nike C: Mars D: Eris

5. - (Key: A, Points: 2) A: victory

B: war and discord C: failure D: heroes

6. - (Key: D, Points: 2)

A: Paris B: London C: Rome D: Athens

7. - (Key: B, Points: 2) A: Helen B: Venus C: Athena D: Juno

8. - (Key: A, Points: 2) A: beauty and love B: lust and desire

C: wisdom and intelligence D: power

9. - (Key: B, Points: 2) A: \"amour\" and \"error\" B: \"amour\" and \"erotic\" C: \"aim\" and erotica\" D: \"arm\" and \"error\"

10. - (Key: A, Points: 2)

A: \"psychic\" and \"psychiatrist\" B: \"pseudo\" and \"psychology\" C: \"pseud\" and \"pseudo\" D: \"psyche\" and \"pseud\"

* Cloze B (without choices)

Deities in Greek Mythology - Modify the Passage

Directions: Choose from the list of words and expressions to fill in the blanks.

Olympians

Mother of all gods and goddesses women and marriage the underworld

light and sun trident a lyre the earth

seas and oceans

Messenger of the gods Olympus

music, poetry and the arts

In Greek mythology, Zeus is the king of the Gods, and his wife Hera goddess of _______1_______. Poseidon rules over _______2________, with a _____3________. And Hades takes over ________4_______ as his charge. Apollo, a god of _______5_______, and also ________6________, leads Muses, with ______7_______ created by Hermes, ________8________. Gaia, ________9________, personifies ________10___________. All the _______11_________ take Mount ______12_________ as their residency.

1. - (Key: women and marriage, Points: 2)

2. - (Key: seas and oceans, Points: 2)

3. - (Key: trident, Points: 2)

4. - (Key: the underworld, Points: 2)

5. - (Key: light and sun, Points: 2)

6. - (Key: music, poetry and the arts, Points: 2)

7. - (Key: a lyre, Points: 2)

8. - (Key: Messenger of the gods, Points: 2)

9. - (Key: Mother of all gods and goddesses, Points: 2)

10. - (Key: the earth, Points: 2)

11. - (Key: Olympians, Points: 2)

12. - (Key: Olympus, Points: 2)