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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. 【B1】______ the Sumerian worshipped the goddess of fertility, love, and war, she was evidently lower 【B2】______ status than the male gods, indicating that in a more urbanized society the【B3】______that the peoples of previous times had paid to the earth mother goddess had【B4】______. The gods seemed hopelessly violent and【B5】______, and one’ s life a period of slavery at their easy will. The epic poem The Creation emphasizes that【B6】______were created to enable the gods to 【B7】______ up working. Each city moreover had its own god, who was considered to【B8】______the temple literally and who was in theory the owner of all property within the city.
    【B9】______the priests who interpreted the will of the god and controlled the【B10】______of the economic produce of the city were favored【B11】______their supernatural and material functions【B12】______. When, after 3,000 B. C., growing warfare among the cities made military leadership【B13】______, the head of the army who became king assumed a (a) 【B14】______ position between the god, whose agent he was, and the priestly class, whom he had both to use and to【B15】______. Thus king and priests represented the upper class in a hierarchical society.【B16】______them were the scribes, the secular attendants of the temple, who【B17】______every aspect of the city’s economic life and who developed a rough judicial system.【B18】______the temple officials, society was divided among an elite or【B19】______group of large landowners and military leaders; a mixed group of merchants, artisans, and craftsmen, free peasants who【B20】______the majority of the population; and slaves.
【B4】
选项 A、vanished
B、recovered
C、declined
D、attained
答案C
解析 考查动词辨析。vanish意为“消失”；recover意为“恢复，复原”；decline意为“减少，下降，衰弱”；attain意为“达到，获得”，由上文可知，苏美尔人崇拜女神，但她的地位低于男性的神。可见，这种崇拜已经减少。因此C．declined为正确答案。
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