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 【C1】______ the construction of ideal states, such as【C2】______to the Greeks. With very few exceptions, Roman theorists ignored, or rejected 【C3】______ valueless, intellectual exercises like Plato’ s Republic, in 【C4】______ the relationship of the individual to the state was 【C5】______ out painstakingly without reference to 【C6】______ 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【C7】______. Roman thought about the state was concrete, even when it【C8】______religious and moral concepts.
    The first ruler of Rome, Romulus, was【C9】______to have received authority from the gods, specifically from Jupiter, the "guarantor" of Rome. All constitutional【C10】______was a method of conferring and administering the【C11】______. Very clearly it was believed that only the assembly of the【C12】______, the family heads who formed the original senate,【C13】______the religious character necessary to exercise authority, because its original function was to【C14】______the gods. Being practical as well as exclusive, the senators moved【C15】______to divide the authority, holding that their consuls, or chief officials, would possess it on【C16】______months, and later extending its possession to lower officials.【C17】______the important achievement was to create the idea of continuing【C18】______authority embodied only temporarily in certain upper-class individuals and conferred only【C19】______the mass of the people concurred. The system grew with enormous【C20】______, as new offices and assemblies were created and almost none discarded.
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选项 A、state
B、country
C、people
D、national

答案A

解析 考查习惯搭配。空格处的名词作定语,修饰authority。本文一开始就提到罗马人关于国家理论的形成(Roman theorizing about the state)。文中多次出现了关键词state。因此可推知,空格部分涉及的是应是“国家权力”。state authority是表达“国家权力”的习惯搭配,一般不用country或people,national authority常表示“民族权力机构”,故答案为A.state。
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