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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 (1)_____ the construction of ideal states, such as (2)_____ to the Greeks. With very few exceptions, Roman theorists ignored, or rejected (3)_____ valueless, intellectual exercises like Plato’s Republic, in (4)_____ the relationship of the individual to the state was (5)_____ out painstakingly without reference to (6)_____ 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 (7)_____. Roman thought about the state was concrete, even when it (8)_____ religious and moral concepts. The first ruler of Rome, Romulus, was (9)_____ to have received authority from the gods, specifically from Jupiter, the "guarantor" of Rome. All constitutional (10)_____ was a method of conferring and administering the (11)_____. Very clearly it was believed that only the assembly of the (12)_____, the family heads who formed the original senate, (13)_____ the religious character necessary to exercise authority, because its original function was to (14)_____ the gods. Being practical as well as exclusive, the senators moved (15)_____ to divide the authority, holding that their consuls, or chief officials, would possess it on (16)_____ months, and later extending its possession to lower officials. (17)_____ the important achievement was to create the idea of continuing (18)_____ authority embodied only temporarily in certain upper-class individuals and conferred only (19)_____ the mass of the people concurred. The system grew with enormous (20)_____, as new offices and assemblies were created and almost none discarded.
选项 A、And
B、So
C、Or
D、But
答案D
解析 本题考查语法。空格处填入的连词表示所在分句与上文之间的逻辑关系。上文提到，参议院拥有权利，并将它下放到各级官员手中。空格所在部分是一个长句，其主干结构是the important achievement was to create the idea of continuing...authority(成就是创造持续的…权力的概念)。authority后是两个并列的分词结构，即embodied...in和conferred…作后置定语。由句意可知，本句仍然在讨论权力下放的问题，但它强调这种权力不完全属于上层阶级，也需要大众的认可。因此在含义上本句出现了转折。四选项中，And表并列，So表因果，Or表选择，But表转折。
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