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【单选题】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 TheCreation 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 3,000B、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.

A、Around B、Under C、Above D、Outside
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
[解析] 考查介词辨析。Around意为“在……周围”；Under意为“在……之下，少于，低于”；Above意为“在……上面”；Outside意为“在……外面；不在……范围内，不属于”。空格上文介绍了庙宇的官员，下文则介绍了与宗教无关的其他社会阶层。可见，空格处的介词应表示“在(庙宇的官员)之外”的含义，因此D．Outside正确。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>