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¡¡¡¡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)

¡¡¡¡By 1830 the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies had become independent nations. The roughly 20 million 1 of these nations looked 2 to the future. Born in the crisis of the old regime and Iberian Colonialism, many of the leaders of independence 3 the ideas of representative government, careers 4 to talent, freedom of commerce and trade, the 5 to private property, and a belief in the individual as the basis of society.