大全Passage42, Q2,3,4,5 错成马蜂窝了，请教，感谢！

aaron22

这篇做下来有一种风萧萧兮易水寒，壮士一去不复返的感觉 -_-||

求大牛指点，文中有几处反复读也读不出来其意思，做的题更是惨不忍睹

黄色部分是没有掌握的地方，如果能够把全篇详解一下，那小弟就感激涕零了~~~~(>_<)~~~~

Passage 42 (42/63)

Historians sometimes forget that history is continually being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read. These latter activities have their own history, of course, which may impinge in unexpected 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 which challenged the prevailing 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 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 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 preface to the second revised edition, Woodward confessed with ironic modesty that the first edition “had begun to sffuer 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.

2.It can be inferred from the passage that the “prevailing dogma” (line 10) held that

(A) Jim Crow laws were passed to give legal status to well-established discriminatory practices in the South

(B) Jim Crow laws were passed to establish order and uniformity in the discriminatory practices of different southern states

(C) JimCrow laws were passed to erase the social gains that Black people had achieved since Reconstruction

(D) thecontinuity of racial segregation in the South was disrupted by passage of Jim Crow laws

(E) the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were passed to reverse the effect of earlier Jim Crow laws

千不考万不考，就考我看不懂的地方，所以就做错了
这题我选的是C，答案是D,文章没读懂完全没有读出D的意思来，请NN解释下吧~~

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

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

答案是C，我选的是A，没读懂handicap是什么东西

4 .The passage suggests that C. Vann Woodward and Thomas Paine were similar in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

(A) Both had works published in the midst of important historical events.文中在哪？

(B) Both wrote works that enjoyed widespread popularity.这个读出来了

(C) Both exhibited an understanding of the relevance of historical evidence to contemporary issues.文中在哪？

(D) The works of both had a significant effect on events following their publication. 文中在哪？

(E) Both were able to set aside worries about historical anachronism in order to reach and inspire.

这道题萌对了。。。E应该是能看出来，但是请问ACD项在文中怎么定位哦

5 .The attitude of the author of the passage toward the work of C. Vann Woodward is best described as one of

(A) respectful regard

(B) qualified approbation

(C) implied skepticism

(D) pointed criticism

(E) fervent advocacy

这题也是蒙对的，请问怎么看出作者的态度？

aaron22

顶，这篇还是不求甚解，求版主大牛门分析，遇到这种关于politics的郁闷的很

yangrryq

2.social gains 文章中没有，文中讲的是concerning the history, continuity, and uniformity of racial segregation in the South.对应的只有d.

recomment:这道题答案有问题，我觉得应该是a,首先排除b，c，e,因为文中讲的是in the south.这个是根本。但是我觉得a更适合。因为d更像他C. Vann Woodward 的意思，的观点。我查了一下历史资料，觉得a更合适。选d理解是不通的。开始我始终很困惑。觉得选d，怎么体现challenge?现在可以选a我觉得更合适。勘误。

yangrryq

3.handicaps:不利因素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,意思是说这个是马后炮，事后诸葛亮，你都出版了，到第二版的前言你才说有问题，没意思了。举例子说培恩为commone  sense的timing道歉，可是它已经存在了，那有怎么样呢？(C) A newspaper article assessing the historical importance of a United States President written shortly after the President has taken office可以匹配

yangrryq

4.Both had works published in the midst of important historical events.文中在哪？
其实是楼主对历史不了解。The Supreme Court had issued its ruling in this epochal desegregation case a few months before Woodward’s lectures.
Thomas Paine apologize for the timing of his pamphlet Common Sense和american independent War

yangrryq

Both exhibited an understanding of the relevance of historical evidence to contemporary issues.文中在哪？
Woodward/Jim Crow laws,Thomas Paine/erican independent War

yangrryq

The works of both had a significant effect on events following their publication. 文中在哪？
The Supreme Court had issued its ruling in this epochal desegregation case a few months before Woodward’s lectures.
Thomas Paine/ independent War ->如果你还有疑问可以百度一下Thomas Paine

yangrryq

5.第一段，作者亮观点：Historians sometimes forget that history is continually being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read. These latter activities have their own history, of course, which may impinge in unexpected ways on public events. It is difficult to predict when “new pasts” will overturn established historical interpretations and change the course of history.
其实作者没有什么特别的态度。第二段举例就是C. Vann Woodward 。态度不明确。但是没有特别批评，其他的选项不适合，用排除法可以排除的。

yangrryq

Thomas Paine 写了pamphlet Common Sense，号召美国人民反对英国殖民者，Common Sense相当于老毛的论持久战这样的地位。如果你说不知道论持久战，我就只能汗一个了。