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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. (1)_____ the Sumerian worshipped the goddess of fertility, love, and war, she was evidently lower (2)_____ status than the male gods, indicating that in a more urbanized society the (3)_____ that the peoples of previous times had paid to the earth mother goddess had (4)_____. The gods seemed hopelessly violent and (5)_____, and one’s life a period of slavery at their easy will. The epic poem The Creation emphasizes that (6)_____ were created to enable the gods to (7)_____ up working. Each city moreover had its own god, who was considered to (8)_____ the temple literally and who was in theory the owner of all property within the city. (9)_____ the priests who interpreted the will of the god and controlled the (10)_____ of the economic produce of the city were favored (11)_____ their supernatural and material functions (12)_____. When, after 3000 B.C., growing warfare among the cities made military leadership (13)_____, the head of the army who became king assumed a(n) (14)_____ position between the god, whose agent he was, and the priestly class, whom he had both to use and to (15)_____. Thus king and priests represented the upper class in a hierarchical society. (16)_____ them were the scribes, the secular attendants of the temple, who (17)_____ every aspect of the city’s economic life and who developed a rough judicial system. (18)_____ the temple officials, society was divided among an elite or (19)_____ group of large landowners and military leaders; a mixed group of merchants, artisans, and craftsmen, free peasants who (20)_____ the majority of the population; and slaves.
选项 A、pacify
B、tempt
C、suppress
D、manipulate
答案A
解析 本题考查动词词义辨析。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"。pacify(使…平静，抚慰)；tempt(诱惑，鼓动)；suppress(镇压，压制)；manipulate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。
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