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The great chariot of society, which for so long had run down the gentle slop

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问题     The great chariot of society, which for so long had run down the gentle slope of tradition, now found itself powered by an internal combustion engine. Transactions and gain 【51】 a new and startling 【52】 force.
    What forces could have been 【53】 powerful to smash a comfortable and 【54】 world and institute in its place this new society? There was no single massive 【55】 . It was not great events, single adventures, individual laws, or charming 【56】 which 【57】 about the economic revolution. It was a process of internal growth.
    First, there was the gradual emergence of national political 【58】in Europe. A second great current of change was to be found in the slow decay of the religious spirit under the 【59】 of the skeptical, inquiring, humanist views of the Italian Renaissance. Still another 【60】 current lies in the slow social changes that eventually rendered the market system possible. In the course of this change, power naturally began to gravitate into the hands of those who understood money matters--the merchants. [br]
选项 A、integrities
B、personalities
C、majesties
D、monarchies
答案 B
解析 “personalities人物，名人；人格”。根据文章一致性的原则，该词与下文的“Adam Smith”形成一种照应。最大的干扰项为D选项“monarchies君主政体，君主制”，但此词一般与政治有关，而A选项“integrities完整，完全”和C选项“majesties最高权力，权威；君权”均不符合题意。
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