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1、文化概略期末考试答疑一、 选择题。Multiple Choice(20%)1. Which was the dynasty that first introduced the imperial examination system for recruiting civil service officials in ancient China? Answer: The Sui Dynasty. 2. Of the four religions prevailing in China: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam and Christianity, which one is t
2、he native born? Answer: Taoism 3. Chinese people usually worship a number of deities that, they wish, will bring them blessings in their daily life. They enshrine and worship various gods in their home to meet their various need, They take such a deity just as an image of power rather than a genuine
3、 religion. For example, they put up an image of the god of home guard on the door wishing to keep the security of the family. When they wish to get rich, they usually put up the god of _in their home? Answer: Cai Shen or the god of wealth. 4. What is the name of the god that people in the coastal re
4、gion of Southeastern China worship and wish him to keep them safe at sea? A. Mazu B. Guanyin C. Buddha Answer: A 5. Buddhism was first introduced to China in the first century A.D. or so, when Emperor Mingdi of the Eastern Han Dynasty was in rule. The first Buddhist temple in Chinese history, built
5、at Luoyang city, Henan Province, is called_. Answer: Bai Ma Si (The Temple of White Horse) 6. The great contemporary painter Qi Baishi was gifted with a fine arts power, being skillful in painting the images of fish, birds, flowers and insects. The wonder of his works lies in somewhere between resem
6、blance and dissemblance, vividly and lively. His _ is widely known in China. A. A cluster of shrimps B. Donkey C. Galloping Horses Answer: A 7. True or False? Is Jasmine (茉莉花) a folk song of Jiangsu Province? Answer: True. 8. Which minority ethnic groups dwelling community is called the hometown of
7、peacocks? A. Tujia nationality B. Dai nationality C. Hui nationalityD. Shui nationality Answer: B. 9. What is the name of the mountain where the largest Chinese Taoist architectural complex is located? Answer: Wudang Mountain.29. According to wedding customs in ancient China, a bride was carried to
8、a bridegrooms home by_? A. Bridal sedan-chair B. a horse C. a car Answer: Bridal sedan-chair.10. Of all the traditional Chinese festivals, which one is set to mark the famous poet Quyuan? A. Dragon-boat Festival B. Qingming Festival C. Festival of the 8th of the lunar December. Answer: A. Dragon-boa
9、t Festival. 11. Choose: 布衣 refers to: A. Ordinary people B. Officials C. Soldiers Answer: An ordinary people 12. The logo adopted for Olympic games in 2008 is a Chinese seal. When were seals commonly used in China? A. Zhou Dynasty B. Han Dynasty C. Tang Dynasty Answer: A 13. The Qin Dynasty first in
10、troduced the official system of using seals or stamps: The personal seal of the emperor was called imperial seal, the counselor-in-chief used gold seal, and various officials of the court used gold, silver or bronze seals according to their different ranks. Later, following dynasties in Chinese hist
11、ory generally inherited the same system. What kind of material was the imperial seal made of? A.Gold B. Jade. C. Bronze D. Silver Answer: B 14. Which of the following products were traditional exported ones in ancient China? A. Glass B.Silk C.Porcelain D.Sugar Answer: B, C. 15. Shen Kuo of the North
12、ern Song Dynasty wrote a world famous scientific work, which gave a detailed description of the movable-type printing, in addition to the introduction to the assembling of a compass. What work is it? Answer: Sketchbook of Dream Brook (梦溪笔谈)16.Exchanges between China and other countries and regions i
13、n ancient times had lasted for a long time, and during this long process of exchange China had learned various technologies from other countries. Which of the following technologies was introduced to China from other countries? A. Glassmaking technology B. Raising silkworm C. Wine brewing D Papermak
14、ing. Answer:A. 17. Which of the following fruits does not originate from China? A. Peach. B.apricot C. water melon D.apple Answer: C, D. 18. Which of the following vegetables are introduced from other countries? A.Potato B.Chinese cabbage C.sweet potato D. tomato Answer: A. C. D. 19. Nostalgia seems
15、 to be a shallow channel; I am on this side, and the mainland on the other. Who is the famous poet of Taiwan? Answer: Yu Guangzhong. 20. What is the name of the archetypal Neolithic cultural site discovered in the suburbs of Xian in Shaanxi Province? Answer: The Banpo Cultural site. 21. In Chinas my
16、thology, who was the hero to separate heaven from earth? Answer: Pan Gu. 22. In Chinas mythology, who created human beings? Answer: Nvwa. 23. In Chinas historical legends, who was the first of the Five Emperors? Answer: Huangdi ( and the others were Zhuanxu, Diku, Yao, Shun). 24. In Chinas historica
17、l legends, who was the first to teach people to fish and raise livestock? Answer: Fu Xi. 25. In Chinas historical legends, who was the first to teach people farming and to taste and experiment with various types of herbal medicines? Answer: Yandi. 26. Which two antiquate cities of China have been li
18、sted as World Cultural Heritage Sites? Answer: Lijiang in Yunnan, and Pingyao in Shanxi. (Picture: Lijiang and Pingyao) 27. The main architectural structure in ancient China was _. A. A wooden framework B. A stone framework Answer: A. 28. One of the characteristics of Chinas antiquate architecture i
19、s _. A. The distinguished difference of ranks in society B. No difference Answer: A 29. The Grand Canal was first opened during the _ Dynasty. Answer: Sui. 30. Which province has the largest number of minority ethnic group in China? A. Guangzhou B. Shaanxi C. Sichuan D.Yunnan Answer: D. 31. The smal
20、lest ethnic group in China has only a population of about 2300. What is this minority ethnic group called ? A. Shui B. Derung C. Lhoba D. Primi Answer: C. 32. The first Chinese edition of The Bible was published in Malacca in 1823. The translator of this edition was a famous British missionary. What
21、 is his name? Answer: Robert Morrison. 33. The Indian Monk Bodhidharma came to China and in a temple he had kept still in meditation facing the wall for ten years, thus creating the Chinese Buddhist school Chan or Zen Buddhism. What is the name of the temple? Answer: Henans Shaolin Temple. 二、 判断题。Tr
22、ue or False?(20%) 34. True or False: The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th of the lunar August, just in the middle of autumn, hence the name. Answer: True. 35. True or False: In China, wine has a longer history than tea. In 1986, a pot of wine unearthed in Henan Province was made more than 3,000
23、 years before. Maotai liquor, Five-Grain Liquor, Fenjiu, Zhuyeqing, Luzhou Laojiao, Gujin Gongjiu are all brand-name liquors produced in China. Answer: True. 36. True or False: Cloth printed with Batik and soaked-indigo techniques are imported from overseas. Answer: False. Batik and soaked-indigo te
24、chniques are invented by Chinese people, which are used in traditional Chinese textile design and dyeing to produce art and handicraft products. 37. True or False: The paper-cutting art of China has been listed as one of the worlds cultural legacies. Answer: True. 38. True or False: There is general
25、ly a pair of identical stone lions placed in front of Chinese palaces, officials mansions and houses in order to ward off evil spirits. Answer: False. Generally speaking, on the left side of the gate is a male lion with its right foot stamping on a silk ball, suggesting the symbol of power; on the r
26、ight side of the gate is a lioness with her left foot caressing a cub lion, symbolizing procreation of more descendants. 39. Judge: Both sundial and copper clepsydra were hour meters used for counting time in ancient China. Sundial had been popular in Qin and Han Dynasties. Answer: Right. 40. Judge:
27、 The main source of traditional Chinese medicine is herbage, in addition to some animals and minerals. Answer: Right. 41 True or False? Oracle-bone inscriptions (甲骨文) are so called because they were inscribed on tortoise shells or animal bones. Answer: True. 42. True or False? Most Chinese character
28、s may be written either in the complex form with more strokes or in a simplified version with less strokes. A character with more strokes is called an original complex character; and its simplified version is called a simplified character. Answer: True. 43. True or False? The simplified Chinese char
29、acters are one of the working languages used in the United Nations. Answer: True. 44. True or False? In China, a Buddhist Temple is called 庙, while a Taoist monastery is called 观. Answer: Correct. 45. True or False? The standard language of modern Chinese is Putonghua. Answer: True. 46. True or Fals
30、e? Lu Xun is a famous comtemporary Chinese writer and thinker, whose surname is Lu and given name is Xun. Answer: False. His real name is Zhou Shuren, and Lu Xun is his pen name. 47. True or False? Chinese poetry had seen its prime stage in the Tang Dynasty. According to the Quan Tang Shi,(Complete
31、Poetry of Tang), about 50,000 poems were written by over 2,300 poets in this period. Answer: True.48. True or False? Chinese characters are not only the oldest language in the world, but also are used by the largest number of people in the world. The number of Chinese characters totals about 60,000,
32、 with about 6,000 in daily use. Answer: True. 49. True or False? In China, brick was first used for construction during the Qin Dynasty, 2,300 years ago. The famous Great Wall was mainly built with bricks. Answer: True. 三、 简答题。Brief Answer Questions(30%)50. What are the awards set up for films in Ch
33、ina? Answer: Golden Rooster Award and Hundred Flowers Award 51. What are the two Awards for Chinese TV plays? Answer: Golden Eagle Award, and Flying God Award. 52. What are the names of the following four ancient historic capital cities now in modern China? Tang Dynasty Changan Kaifeng Yuan Dynasty
34、Dadu Hangzhou Northern Song Dynasty Dongjing Beijing Soutnern Song Dynasty Linan Xian Answer: Tang Dynasty Changan Xian Yuan Dynasty Dadu Beijing Northern Song Dynasty Dongjing Kaifeng Soutnern Song Dynasty Linan Hangzhou 53. Please link up the following local specialties with the place of productio
35、n: Maotai liquor Shanxi Peony Suzhou Long-stored vinegar Zhejiang Suzhou embroidery Guizhou Longjing tea Xinjiang Raisins Luoyang Answer: Maotai liquor Guizhou Peony Luoyang Long-stored vinegar Shanxi Suzhou embroidery Suzhou Longjing tea Zhejiang Raisins Xinjiang 54. The main form of Chinese marria
36、ge is _. Answer: Monogamous system. 55. When is the Qingming holiday (the day of Clearness and Brightness in the lunar calendar)? What are the ways and customs people like to follow on the day? Answer: Around the 5th of the lunar April, people usually go to the tombs and graves to pay respects to th
37、eir passed away relatives, or go hiking on the outskirts, or fly kites. 56. The traditional Double Ninth Festival falls on the 9th day of the 9th lunar month in China. What is the festival now? Answer: The festival for the elderly. 57. What is the last day of the lunar year in China? Answer: The Eve
38、 of the lunar New Year, or the 30th of the 12 lunar month. (Danian sanshi). 58. During the Spring Festival, people often put up something on both sides of the gate to festoon the festival. What are they?Answer: Spring Festival couplets. 59. Chinese people like to use some numbers to mean something g
39、ood in daily life. What do these numbers six, eight and nine mean? Answer: Six for smoothness, eight for fortune, and nine for longevity. 60. What do the Seven Necessities of Life mean in daily life? which are often referred to by Chinese people. Answer: Firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar and t
40、ea, 61. China began to use paper currency during the Song Dynasty, the first of its kind in the world. What was this kind of currency called at that time? Answer: Jiaozi. 62. Who was the scientist in the Ming Dynasty, who had learned Western science, translated Elements (几何原本) and compiled Complete
41、Treatise on Agriculture (农政全书)? Answer: Xu Gunangqi. 63. Chinese people in ancient times used sheets of bamboo as writing media. It is called ?(Picture: Bamboo slip) Answer: Bamboo slip. 64. What is 帛书? (Picture: Book copied on silk) Answer: It is the book written on the silk by ancient Chinese. 65.
42、 Who made Chinas first airplane? Answer: Feng Ru (1883-1912),born in Enping, Guangdong. He designed and produced an airplane and succeeded in a test fly in 1909. 66. One way of traditional Chinese medicine to treat patients is to put filiform needles into their body according to certain acupoints. W
43、hat method is it called? Answer: Acupuncture and moxibustion. 67. Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases (伤寒杂病论) was written by in the Han Dynasty who was honored by later generations as a Master Doctor? Answer: Zhang Zhongjing. 68. Sun Simiao, a well-known physician of the Tang Dynasty, com
44、piled a collection of traditional Chinese herbal medicines, providing more than 6000 doses of prepared prescription, honored by Taoists as King of Medicines, what is the name of the collection? Answer: Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Prices of Gold (千金药方)69. Li Shizhen, medical scientist of
45、 the Ming Dynasty, spent 30 years to compile a huge work, which introduced 1892 kinds of traditional Chinese herbal medicines. This work is called . Answer: Compendium of Materia Medica 70. Xu Xiake, Chinese traveler and geologist of the Ming Dynasty, had made inspection tours of 16 provinces across
46、 China in 34 years, and jotted down whatever he saw everyday. He finally wrote a book, known as the best geographic travelogue in ancient China. This book is .Answer: Xu Xiakes Travel Notes (徐霞客游记)71. What were the ancient Chinas four great inventions? Answer: The compass, gunpowder, papermaking and
47、 printing.72. Chinas first anthology of ancient poetry is _; with 305 poems collected, it is also known as Three Hundred Poems. Answer: Shi Jing. (The Book of Songs) 73. What is the typical work of the great poet Qu Yuan during the Warring States period? Answer: Li Sao, Chuci. (The Lamenti, The eleg
48、ies of Chu.). 74. Fill in the blank: China boasts a wealth of ancient mythology, of which the largest number of mythologies appeared in the _. Answer: Shan Hai Jing. (The Classic of Mountains and Rivers) 75. In each stage of its development, Chinese literature boasted a specific type of literary for
49、m marking the highest achievement of its own. Please connect with lines the following literary forms with their corresponding stage. Han Dynasty Poetry Tang Dynasty Prose-poetry (赋)Song Dynasty Zaju (杂剧)Ming & Qing dynasties Ci (词)Yuan Dynasty Novel Answer: Han Dynasty prose-poetry Tang Dynasty Poet
50、ry Song Dynasty Ci Ming & Qing dynasties novelYuan Dynasty Zaju76. There was a great poet of the Tang Dynasty known as a banished immortal poet. Who is he? Answer: Li Bai. 77. There was a great poet of the Tang Dynasty whose poems are regarded as history of poetry. Who is the poet? Answer: Du Fu. 78
51、. Who is the writer of the long narrative poems Changhenge and Pipa Xing? Answer: Bai Juyi. 79. What is the name of a novel in which the Monkey King is the main character? Who is its author? Answer: Journey to the West, Wu Chengen. 80. The classical Chinese novel Journey to the West written in the v
52、ernacular is based on the story of Monk Xuanzangs pilgrimage to the western Tianzhu in search of the Buddhist scriptures. Which place does Tianzhu refer to? A.Ancient Arabia B. Ancient India C. Ancient Persia, D. Ancient Rome Answer: B. Ancient India. 81. Wu Song and Song Jiang are characters in a f
53、amous novel, what is the name of the novel? Who is the writer of the novel? Answer: Outlaws of the Marshes, Shi Naian. 82.What is the name of a novel in which Zhu Geliang and Cao Cao are characters? Answer: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. 83. What was the first novel written in the vernacular in
54、the modern history of Chinese literature? What is the name of the author? Answer: The Diary of a Madman, by Lu Xun. 84. In which novel did Lu Xun depict an intellectual who was deeply influenced and defiled by the feudal civil service recruitment examination system and eventually had to make a livin
55、g on stealing books? Answer: Kong Yiji. 85. Who is the writer of the saga novels, The Rickshaw Boy, Four Generations under One Roof, and the dramas Teahouse, Longxugou, etc.? Answer: Lao She. 86. Who created the Turbulent current Trilogy which is composed of Family, Spring, and Autumn? Answer: Ba Ji
56、n. 87. Who is the author of the Rural Trilogy (Spring Silkworm, Autumn Harvest, and Remnant Winter)? Answer: Mao Dun. 88. Goddess is the typical work of Chinas new poetry movement. Who is the author of this work? Answer: Guo Moruo. 89. Who is the most influential swordsmen fiction writer from the 19
57、50s up to now in Hong Kong? Answer: Jinyong. (Picture) 90. In Chinas contemporary literature, Zhu Ziqing is a famous prose writer whose most renown work are _, Bei Ying, (My Fathers Receding Figure) etc. Answer: He Tang Yue Se 91. Connect the following writers to their works. Mao Dun Letter to the L
58、ittle Readers Yang Shuo The Song of the Poplar Bing Xin The Honey of Litchi Answer: Mao Dun Song of PoplarYang Shuo Honey of Lichi Bing Xin Letter to the Little Reader 92. What are the unified and set standards for the phonetic transcriptions of Chinese characters? Answer: Scheme for the Chinese Pho
59、netic Alphabet. 93. The Chinese people often call themselves the offspring of Yan and Huang. What does yan and huang refer to? Answer: Emperor Yandi and Emperor Huangdi. 94. Please connect the heroes in Chinas historical legends to their corresponding stories. Pan Gu Created Chinese characters Nvwa
60、Separated heaven from earth Cangjie Created human beings Answer: Pan Gu Separated heaven from earth Nvwa Created human beings Cangjie Created Chinese characters 95. Who was the most famous philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period? Answer: Confucius. 96. What was the military (social and political
61、) system of the Manchu nationality in the Qing Dynasty? Answer: The Eight Banners System. 97. Who was the leader of the peasant rebel army that attacked Beijing and ended the Ming Dynasty? Answer: Li Zicheng. 98. In the history of China there was a famous national hero who defeated the Dutch colonists in 1662 and reoccupied Taiwan. What is his name? Answer: Zheng Chenggong.99. In the modern history of China, one of the peasant uprisings was known as the largest in scale and t
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