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.
【B17】

选项 A、And
B、So
C、Or
D、But

答案D

解析 考查逻辑关系。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,参议院拥有权力,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 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。选项中,D.But表转折,为正确选项。And表并列,So表因果,Or表选择,均不符合题意。
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