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All Sumerian cities recognized a number of gods in common, including the sky god, the lord of storms, and the morning and evenin

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问题     All Sumerian cities recognized a number of gods in common, including the sky god, the lord of storms, and the morning and evening star. (1)_____ the Sumerian worshipped the goddess of fertility, love, and war, she was evidently lower (2)_____ status than the male gods, indicating that in a more urbanized society the (3)_____ that the peoples of previous times had paid to the earth mother goddess had (4)_____. The gods seemed hopelessly violent and (5)_____, and one’s life a period of slavery at their easy will. The epic poem The Creation emphasizes that (6)_____ were created to enable the gods to (7)_____ up working. Each city moreover had its own god, who was considered to (8)_____ the temple literally and who was in theory the owner of all property within the city. (9)_____ the priests who interpreted the will of the god and controlled the (10)_____ of the economic produce of the city were favored (11)_____ their supernatural and material functions (12)_____. When, after 3000 B.C., growing warfare among the cities made military leadership (13)_____, the head of the army who became king assumed a(n) (14)_____ position between the god, whose agent he was, and the priestly class, whom he had both to use and to (15)_____. Thus king and priests represented the upper class in a hierarchical society. (16)_____ them were the scribes, the secular attendants of the temple, who (17)_____ every aspect of the city’s economic life and who developed a rough judicial system. (18)_____ the temple officials, society was divided among an elite or (19)_____ group of large landowners and military leaders; a mixed group of merchants, artisans, and craftsmen, free peasants who (20)_____ the majority of the population; and slaves.
选项 A、worship
B、reverence
C、admiration
D、gratitude
答案B
解析 本题考查名词词义辨析。空格所在部分为分词结构作状语，即indicating that...。其中that引导宾语从句，空格处填入的名词为从句的主语。该名词后又跟有that引导的定语从句，that the peoples... goddess。将空格处的名词，即that代替的先行词放回定语从句，其完整结构是：the peoples of previous times had paid to the earth mother goddess。选项中四个名词为近义词，worship(祟拜，敬仰)；reverence(尊敬，崇敬)；admiration(钦佩，赞赏，羡慕)；gratitude(感谢)。从含义上看，人类对神应该是"崇拜"或"崇敬"，因此A和B比较恰当。其次，句中的搭配是pay sth. to sb.，表示"付出某事物给某人"。常用于这种搭配的是reverence及其同义词respect，pay reverence/respect to意为"尊敬，向…致敬"。
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