大全63－42

rock19840717

我把原文的一部分也帖一下吧

The lectures were soon published as a book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Ten years later, in a preface to the second revised edition, Woodward confessed with ironic modesty that the first edition “had begun to suffer under some of the
                    handicaps that might be expected in a history of the American Revolution published in 1776.” That was a bit like hearing Thomas Paine apologize for the timing of his pamphlet Common Sense, which had a comparable impact. Although Common Sense also had a mass readership, Paine had intended to reach and inspire: he was not a historian, and thus not concerned with accuracy or the dangers of historical anachronism. Yet, like Paine, Woodward had an unerring sense of the revolutionary moment, and of how historical evidence could undermine the mythological tradition that was crushing the dreams of new social possibilities. Martin Luther King, Jr., testified to the profound effect of The Strange
                Career of Jim Crow on the civil rights movement by praising the book and quoting it frequently.

3.    Which of the following is the best example of writing that is likely to be subject to the kinds of “handicaps” referred to in line 27?

(A) A history of an auto manufacturing plant written by an employee during an auto-buying boom

(B) A critique of a statewide school-desegregation plan written by an elementary school teacher in that state

(C) A newspaper article assessing the historical importance of a United States President written shortly after the President has taken office

(D) A scientific paper describing the benefits of a certain surgical technique written by the surgeon who developed the technique（C）

(E) Diary entries narrating the events of a battle written by a soldier who participated in the battle

这一题我不是很理解，谁做过这篇文章能给讲一下吗，特地查了一下托马斯配恩，是美十八世纪美国革命期间的一位革命家和思想宣传家，他身逢其时参与美法两国的革命，并且扮演过重要的角色，当时美法两国的重要政治人物他都认识，写过《常识》(Common Sense)等

rock19840717

自己顶一下

lanfeng0707

这题我也觉得难，个人的理解是：

handicaps是时间上的，Woodward在废奴运动刚开始时就提出了自己的观点。

That was a bit like hearing Thomas Paine apologize for the timing of his pamphlet Common Sense，Paine也一样。

他们都是靠着an unerring sense 对刚开始的事件进行评论，是一种预测，所以说是“handicaps”。其实下一个except题中A选项就是“Both had works published in the midst of important historical events”

然后选项中也只有C符合这一点，在总统刚上任时就评论其对美国历史的重要.

个人观点，有不对的希望指正.