All Sumerian cities recognized a number of gods in common, including the sky god, the lord of storms, and the morning and evenin

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问题     All Sumerian cities recognized a number of gods in common, including the sky god, the lord of storms, and the morning and evening star. 【C1】______ the Sumerian worshipped the goddess of fertility, love, and war, she was evidently lower 【C2】______ status than the male gods, indicating that in a more urbanized society the【C3】______that the peoples of previous times had paid to the earth mother goddess had【C4】______. The gods seemed hopelessly violent and【C5】______, and one’ s life a period of slavery at their easy will. The epic poem The Creation emphasizes that【C6】______were created to enable the gods to 【C7】______ up working. Each city moreover had its own god, who was considered to【C8】______the temple literally and who was in theory the owner of all property within the city.
    【C9】______the priests who interpreted the will of the god and controlled the【C10】______of the economic produce of the city were favored【C11】______their supernatural and material functions【C12】______. When, after 3,000 B. C., growing warfare among the cities made military leadership【C13】______, the head of the army who became king assumed a (a) 【C14】______ position between the god, whose agent he was, and the priestly class, whom he had both to use and to【C15】______. Thus king and priests represented the upper class in a hierarchical society.【C16】______them were the scribes, the secular attendants of the temple, who【C17】______every aspect of the city’s economic life and who developed a rough judicial system.【C18】______the temple officials, society was divided among an elite or【C19】______group of large landowners and military leaders; a mixed group of merchants, artisans, and craftsmen, free peasants who【C20】______the majority of the population; and slaves.
【C15】

选项 A、pacify
B、tempt
C、suppress
D、manipulate

答案A

解析 考查动词辨析。空格所在部分是whom引导的定语从句,修饰先行词the priestly class。将先行词放入从句中,句子的完整形式是:He had the priestly class both to use and to______,其中both…and连接两个并列的不定式作后置定语。可见,空格处填入的动词的逻辑宾语是“僧侣阶层”。pacif3,意为“使…平静,抚慰”;ternpt意为“诱惑,鼓动”;suppress意为“镇压,压制”;manipulate意为“操纵,(暗中)控制”。从上文可知,国王和僧侣都是神的代言人,但国王居于僧侣之上,因此他们之间的关系不应是“诱惑”或“镇压”。如果选择manipulate,与use在含义上出现重复,也应排除。因此A.pacify为正确答案。
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