[求助]XDF PASSAGE 39

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Historians sometimes forget that history is conunu-

ally being made and experienced before it is studied,

interpreted, and read. These latter activities have their

own history, of course, which may impinge in unex-
5) pected ways on public events. It is difficult to predict

when "new pasts" will overturn established historical

interpretations and change the course of history.
In the fall of 1954, for example, C. Vann Woodward

delivered a lecture series at the University of Virginia
10) which challenged the prevailling dogma concerning the

history, continuity, and uniformity of racial segregation

in the South. He argued that the Jim Crow laws of the

late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries not only

codified traditional practice but also were a determined
15) effort to erase the considerable progress made by Black

people during and after Reconstruction in the 1870's.

This revisionist view of Jim Crow legislation grew in

Part from the research that Woodward had done for the

NAACP legal campaign during its preparation for
20) Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court had

issued its ruling in this epochal desegregation case a few

months before Woodward's lectures.

The lectures were soon published as a book. The

Strange Career of Jim Crow. Ten years later, in a
25) 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 Revolu-

tion published in 1776." That was a bit like hearing
30)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
35) dangers of historical anachronism. Yet, like Paine,

Woodward had an unerring sense of the revolutionary

moment, and of how historical evidence could under-

mine the mythological tradition that was crushing the

dreams of new social possibilities. Martin Luther King,
40) 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.

1. The "new pasts" mentioned in line 6 can best bedescribed as the
(A) occurrence of events extremely similar to pastevents
(B) history of the activities of studying, interpreting, andreading new historical writing
(C) change in people's understanding of the past due tomore recent historical writing 正确答案
(D) overturning of established historical interpretationsby politically motivated politicians
(E) difficulty of predicting when a given historicalinterpretation will be overturned

3. Which of the following is the best example of writingthat 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 autobuying boom
(B) A critique of a statewide school-desegregation planwritten by an elementary school teacher in that state
(C) A newspaper article assessing the historicalimportance of a United States President writtenshortly after the President has taken office 正确答案
(D) A scientific paper describing the benefits of acertain surgical technique written by the surgeonwho developed the technique
(E) Diary entries narrating the events of a battle writtenby a soldier who participated in the battle

哪位高人指点一下这两道题

yangxiaogang

will overturn established historical

interpretations and change the course of history.定位第一题