单选题
Eventually the old brutal arrangement was______by the laws of the state, which undertook to end the freelance savageries of personal revenge by meting out justice uncomplicated by private passion.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析：A选项：superseded意为“取代，接替”，如：No sooner do you buy a com—puter than they bring out a new one which supersedes it．(你买电脑后不久他们就会推出新产品取代它。)句意：旧的残酷协议最终为国家法律所取代。故选A。B选项：revised修订，修改；C选项：permeated弥漫，遍布；D选项：imposed强迫，强加。