英语专业八级人文知识练习附讲解第7期

【练习】

1. No.10 Downing Street is____.

A Office of British Navy

B official residence of Prime Minster

C seat of English Parliament

D official residence of King

2.  Increasingly troubled by the inroads of northern tribes such as Goths, the West Empire finally collapsed in__.

A 395               B 27 B.C.              

C 476               D 1453

3. Who wrote "I came, I saw, I conquered"?

A Horace                                       B Virgil

C Marcus Tullius Cicero              D Julius Casar

4. When the Hundred Year's War ended in 1453, the only part of France that was still in the hands of English is__.

A Calais                      B Paris

C Aquitaine               D Anjor

5. Big Ben is the nickname of__.

A Sir Benjamin Hall                              B Benjamin Franklin

C 315-foot Clock Tower                       D Sir Charles Barry

6.  In England, the most famous of the Catholic conspiracies was__.

A The Cobham's plot                                             B the murder of Thomas Becket

C the execution of Mary Queen of Scots               D the Gunpowder Plot

7. The author of On the Origin of Species is__.

A George Baron                          B Charles Darwin

C John Baldwin                          D Winston Churchill

8. The author of On the Nature of Things is __.

A Horace                         B Virgil

C Lucretius                      D Julius Caesar

9. Which of the following is by far the most influential in the West?

A Christianity                             B Buddhism

C Islamism                                  D Judaism

10. The Old Testament consists of 39 books, the oldest and most important of which are the first fie books, called __.

A Exodus                                B Commandments

C Amos                                  D Pentateuch