单选题 By the end of the Spring and Autumn Period slave society was _________ disintegration.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】本题考查介词短语的含义。A以……为理由;B在……之上;C鉴于;D将近,即将。句子的意思是:春秋末期奴隶社会将近解体。