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

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、as
B、when
C、if
D、so
答案B
解析 本题考查连词用法辨析。空格处填入连词，引导后面的从句，和空格前的过去分词一起在句子中作状语。该分词结构可以扩充为一个完整的句子，即，authority was conferred only ______ the mass of the people concurred。由于as和so都不与only连用，应排除。能与only连用的连词是when和if。only when引导时间状语从句，意为"只有在…时候才…"；only if引导条件从句，多与现在时连用，意为"只有在…条件下才…"，所以正确项为when。
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