【正文】 rer was the leader of the Renaissance in Germany. His engravings are unsurpassed and his paintings of animals and plants are exceedingly sensitive.6. Under the reign of Elizabeth I, England began to embark on the road to colonization and foreign control that was to take it onto its heyday of capitalist development.7. Thomas More was a great humanist during the Renaissance. Among his writings the best known is Utopia.8. Cervantes crowned literature of Spain and Shakespeare of England during the Renaissance.Ⅱ 選擇題1. Which of the following works was written by Rabelais, in which he praises the greatness of man, expresses his love of love and his reverence and sympathy for humanist learning? _______ and Pantagruel B. Don QuixoteC. The Praise of Folly D. Utopia2. Whose motto put down in his essays “What do Know” is world famous?________A. Cervantes B. Rabelais C. Montaigne D. Shakespeare3. Which of the following works is worth reading for Montaigne’s humanist ideas and a style which is easy and familiar? ________A. Sonnets B. Decameron C. Rabelais D. Of Repentance4. Which of the following is NOT French writer poet? _______A. Cervantes B. Pierre de Ronsard C. Rabelais D. Montaigne5. In 1516 who published the first Greek edition of the New Testament?_________A. Bruegel B. Erasmus C. El Greco D. Rabelais6. “To be, or not to be, that is the question ” from whose works? _______A. Chaucer B. Dante C. Roger Bacon D. ShakespeareⅢ 簡答與問答1. Why did England e later than other countries during the Renaissance? In what way was English Renaissance different from that of other countries? Who were the major figures and what were their contributions? Science and Technology during the RenaissanceⅠ 填空題1. The Renaissance was the golden age of geographical discoveries: by the year of 1600 the surface of the known earth was doubled.2. Columbus was a Genoeseborn navigator and discoverer of the New World.3. Dias was a Portuguese navigator who discovered the Cape of Good Hope.4. Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator, who discovered the route to India round the Cape of Good Hope between the year of 1497 and 1498.5. Amerigo Vespucci was the Italian navigator in whose honor America was named6. Amerigo Vespucci discovered and explored the mouth of the Amazon and accepted South America as a new continent.7. Copernicus came to be known as father of modern astronomy.8. During his life time Leonardo da Vinci dissected more than thirty corpse and was a great anatomist in Italy.9. Andreas Vesalius was the founder of modern medicine.10. Vesalius was a Flemish anatomist. His work Fabrica marked the beginning of a new era in the study of anatomy.11. Machiavelli was called “Father of political science” in the West.12. The Reformation shattered M。 and a later style that is called the Corinthian style.29. The Acropolis at Athens and the Parthenon are the finest monument of Greek architecture and sculpture in more than 2000 years.30. In the 20th century, there are Homeric parallels in the Irishman James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece Ulysses.II. 選擇1. Which culture reached a high point of development in the 5th century B. C.?A. Greek CultureB. Roman CultureC. Egyptian CultureD. Chinese Culture2. In ___________ the Roman conquered Greece.A. 1200 B. C.B. 700 B. C.C. 146 B. C.D. The 5th century3. Which of the following works described the war led by Agamemnon against the city of Troy?A. Oedipus the KingB. IliadC. OdysseyD. Antigone4. Which of the following is NOT the plays written by Aeschylus?A. AntigoneB. AgamemnonC. PersiansD. Prometheus Bound5. Which of the following is NOT the plays written by Sophocles?A. ElectraB. AntigoneC. Trojan WomanD. Oedipus the King6. Which of the following is the play written by Euripides?A. AntigoneB. PersiansC. ElectraD. Medea7. Which of the following is NOT the greatest tragic dramatist of ancient Greece?A. AristophanesB. EuripidesC. SophoclesD. Aeschylus8. Who ever said that “You can not step twice into the same river”?A. PythagorasB. HeracleitusC. Aristotle9. Who was the founder of scientific mathematics?A. HeracleitusB. AristotleC. SocratesD. Pythagoras10. Who is chiefly noted for his doctrine that “man is the measure of all things”?A. ProtagorasB. PythagorasC. PyrrhonD. EpicurusIII. 名詞解釋1. Aeschylus2. Plato3. The CynicsIV. 簡答與問答1. What are the major elements in European culture?2. What were the main features of ancient Greek society?3. Who were the outstanding dramatists of ancient Greece? What important plays did each of them write?4. Tell some of Plato’s ideas. Why do people call him an idealist?5. Give some examples to show the enormous influence of Greek culture on English literature. Roman CultureI. 填空1. The burning of Corinth in 146 B. C. marked Roman conquest of Greece, which was then reduced to a province of the Roman Empire.2. The Roman writer Horace said: “Captive Greece took her rude conqueror captive”.3. In 27 B. C. Octavius took supreme power as emperor with the title of Augustus.4. The Romans enjoyed a long period of peace lasting two hundred years, a remarkable phenomenon in history known as the Pax Romana.5. In the 4th century, the emperor Constantine moved the capital from Rome to Byzantium, renamed it Constantinople ( modern Istanbul ).6. In 476 the last emperor of the west was deposed by the Coths and marked the end of the West Roman Empire.7. The East Roman Empire collapsed when Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453.8. Julius Caesar recorded what he did and saw in the various military campaigns he took part in and these writings, collected in his Commentaries, are models of succinct Latin.9. Virgil