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、existence
B、store
C、reality
D、mind

答案D

解析 考查固定搭配。have sb./sth.in mind意为“心中有适当的人(或事情)等”,空格所在部分表达的含义是“对罗马有了非常清楚的想法”,因此应选D.mind。其他选项都可以和介词in搭配:in store意为“即将发生(在某人身上),等待着(某人)”;in existence意为“现存”;in reality意为“实际上,事实上”,均不符合文意。
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