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2011 研究生入学考试英语模拟试题 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) 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 3,000 B. C., growing warfare among the cities made military leadership __13__, the head of the army who became king assumeda(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 classin 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 ma