陈虎平阅读36套中第八套第二篇有一道题不懂，请大家赐教...

apollolizhixu

Traditionally, the study of history has had fixed
boundaries and focal points—periods, countries,
dramatic events, and great leaders. It also has had clear  
and firm notions of scholarly procedure: how one  
inquires into a historical problem, how one presents and
documents one‘s findings, what constitutes admissible
and adequate proof. The recent popular psychohistory,
committed to Freudian psychoanalysis, takes a radically
different approach. This commitment precludes a  
commitment to history as historians have always
understood it. Psychohistory derives its ―facts‖ not from
history, the detailed records of events and their
consequences, but from psychoanalysis of the
individuals who made history, and deduces its theories  
not from this or that instance in their lives, but from a
view of human nature that transcends history. It denies
the basic criterion of historical evidence: that evidence
be publicly accessible to, and therefore assessable by,
all historians. Psychohistorians, convinced of the  
absolute rightness of their own theories, are also
convinced that theirs is the "deepest " explanation of any
event that other explanations fall short of the truth.  


2. Which of the following best states the main point of  
   the passage?   正确答案是A
(A) The approach of psychohistorians to historical
     study is currently in vogue even though it  
     lacks the rigor and verifiability of traditional  
     historical method.
但是里面的"lacks the rigor and verifiability of traditional  
     historical method"我不知道该对应定位到原文的哪个地方，请大家赐教！

ppguo

看起来像这一句：It denies the basic criterion of historical evidence: that evidence
be publicly accessible to, and therefore assessable by,
all historians.
作者对这种新方法的态度是怀疑和否定。

apollolizhixu

如果应该对应最后一句话的话，那是不是就表示了作者对于心理历史学的负观点？那么第三题：

3. The author of the passage puts the word ―deepest‖ in
   quotation marks most probably in order to  
  (A) question the usefulness of psychohistorians‘  
    insights into traditional historical scholarship  
  (B) draw attention to a contradiction in the  
    psychohistorians‘ method
  (C) emphasize the major difference between the  
    traditional historians‘ method and  
   that of psychohistorians  
  (D) disassociate her opinion of the psychohistorians‘
      claims from her opinion of their method
  (E) signal her reservations about the accuracy  
         of psychohistorians‘ claims for their work  
答案是不是应该选D？而答案是E啊，”reservation“是不是表示作者”保留意见“，没有表示明显的正负观点呢？