Given that bureaucracy is held in such ill repute today, it is hard to remember that it was onceconsidered a great organizational innovation. By organizing the    36    of labor, by makingmanagement and decision-making a profession, and by providing an order and a set of rules thatallowed many different kinds of specialists to work in coordination toward a common    37    ,bureaucracy greatly extended the breadth and depth of intelligence that organization could achieve.Begun as a system of organizing government activities, it has    38    to big business and largeorganization of all kinds.
       Max Weber, who    39    the systematic study of bureaucracy as its role in western society beganto explode in the late nineteenth century, saw bureaucracy as both the most efficient possible system,and a threat to the basic liberties he    40    dear, thus foreshadowing the sentiments whichbureaucracy frequently evoked today.
【題組】36.
(A) division
(B) distinction
(C) divergence
(D) detachment