The success of Augustus owed much to the character of Roman theorizing about the state. The Romans did not produce ambitious blu

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问题     The success of Augustus owed much to the character of Roman theorizing about the state. The Romans did not produce ambitious blueprints 【B1】______ the construction of ideal states, such as【B2】______to the Greeks. With very few exceptions, Roman theorists ignored, or rejected 【B3】______ valueless, intellectual exercises like Plato’ s Republic, in 【B4】______ the relationship of the individual to the state was 【B5】______ out painstakingly without reference to 【B6】______ states or individuals.The closest the Roman came to the Greek model was Cicero’ s De Re Publica, and even here Cicero had Rome clearly in【B7】______. Roman thought about the state was concrete, even when it【B8】______religious and moral concepts.
    The first ruler of Rome, Romulus, was【B9】______to have received authority from the gods, specifically from Jupiter, the "guarantor" of Rome. All constitutional【B10】______was a method of conferring and administering the【B11】______. Very clearly it was believed that only the assembly of the【B12】______, the family heads who formed the original senate,【B13】______the religious character necessary to exercise authority, because its original function was to【B14】______the gods. Being practical as well as exclusive, the senators moved【B15】______to divide the authority, holding that their consuls, or chief officials, would possess it on【B16】______months, and later extending its possession to lower officials.【B17】______the important achievement was to create the idea of continuing【B18】______authority embodied only temporarily in certain upper-class individuals and conferred only【B19】______the mass of the people concurred. The system grew with enormous【B20】______, as new offices and assemblies were created and almost none discarded.
【B20】

选项 A、dimension
B、complexity
C、exercise
D、function

答案B

解析 考查名词辨析。空格所在部分with enormous______作状语,修饰grew。dimension意为“大小,规模,程度,范围”;complexity意为“复杂性”;exercise意为“活动,练习;行使,运用”;function意为“功能”。下文as引导时间状语从句,说明了主语动作发生的背景和原因。“新的部门和立法机构被创造出来并且几乎没有任何一个被摈弃”导致的结果应该是“系统越来越复杂”,B为正确选项。
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