新GRE阅读理解36套每日讨论--34（群178674184）

普渡哥

   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
5 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
10 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
15 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
20 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?
(A) The approach of psychohistorians to historical
study is currently in vogue even though it
lacks the rigor and verifiability of traditional
historical method.
(B) Traditional historians can benefit from studying
the techniques and findings of psychohis-
torians.
(C) Areas of sociological study such as childhood
and work are of little interest to traditional
historians.
(D) The psychological assessment of an individual‘s
behavior and attitudes is more informative
than the details of his or her daily life.
(E) History is composed of unique and nonrepeat-
ing events that must be individually analyzed
on the basis of publicly verifiable evidence.


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

kingue2

2.A 3.C

元宝盒子

A
D

元宝盒子

第二个不是很确定。。

kingue2

我是往上看3lines 我感觉应该是C

普渡哥

第二个没人对，大家继续加油

wyfishhenry

A   B

抗争的诗人

AC

lukeyu

A E

元宝盒子

既然选D是错的，那应该是A了