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staren21cn

PASSAGE 39
* Historians sometimes forget that history is conunu- ally being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read. These latter activities have theirown 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 StrangeCareer 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
(D) overturning of established historical interpretationsby politically motivated politicians
(E) difficulty of predicting when a given historicalinterpretation will be overturned
2. It can be inferred from the passage that the "prevaillingdogma" (line 10) held that
(A) Jim Crow laws were passed to give legal status towell-established discriminatory practices in theSouth
(B) Jim Crow laws were passed to establish order anduniformity in the discriminatory practices ofdifferent southern states.
(C) Jim Crow laws were passed to erase the social gainsthat Black people had achieved since Reconstruction
(D) the continuity of racial segregation in the South wasdisrupted by passage of Jim Crow laws
(E) the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries were passed to reverse the effectof earlier Jim Crow laws
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
(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
4. The passage suggests that C. Vann Woodward andThomas Paine were similar in all of the following waysEXCEPT:
(A) Both had works published in the midst of importanthistorical events.
(B) Both wrote works that enjoyed widespreadpopularity.
(C) Both exhibited an understanding of the relevance ofhistorical evidence to contemporary issues.
(D) The works of both had a significant effect on eventsfollowing their publication.
(E) Both were able to set aside worries about historicalanachronism in order to reach and inspire.
5. The attitude of the author of the passage toward thework 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
6. Which of the following best describes the new ideaexpressed by C. Vann Woodward in his University ofVirginia lectures in 1954?
(A) Southern racial segregation was continuous anduniform.
(B) Black people made considerable progress only afterReconstruction.
(C) Jim Crow legislation was conventional in nature.
(D) Jim Crow laws did not go as far in codifyingtraditional practice as they might have.
(E) Jim Crow laws did much more than merely reinforcea tradition of segregation.

答案： CDCEBE

xiangxiangling

这篇文章我第一次做时，看了n遍都没看懂它到底要说啥.....

staren21cn

那个handicap那一句还是没理解是什么意思，导致第三题毫无方向感。对着答案看了看感觉是说分析前已经先内定了结果，然后分析过程就是为了符合这个结果的意思。哪位nn来帮忙分析一下？

staren21cn

第五题这几个态度的翻译：

(A) respectful regard - 含有敬意的关注
(B) qualified approbation  - 认可资格？
(C) implied skepticism - 含蓄的怀疑
(D) pointed criticism - 尖锐的批评
(E) fervent advocacy - 热烈的拥护

这个为啥是B而不是C呢？

xiaoxique89

那个handicap那一句还是没理解是什么意思，导致第三题毫无方向感。对着答案看了看感觉是说分析前已经先内定 ...
staren21cn 发表于 2010-6-24 20:24

    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 Thomas Paine apologize for the timing of his pamphlet Common Sense, which had a comparable impact. 看到标注的ironic modesty了嘛？这个地方就是表示W这个人对此的态度是Not modesty的，handicaps句子理解要靠that was a bit like 后面的来判断，因为是类比手法，后面的例子说明了
TP在写CS这本书的时候纵然有很多读者，但他作为非历史学家也没有太多的必要在史记年代的准确性方面给予太多的苛求。
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.
这个句子的意思就是旨在说明当时W的The Strange Career of Jim Crow这本书当初出版时是存在历史局限性的，故在第二版修订版的前言中给出说明，这样的局限性就如同TP的书CS一样。
回到问题，这个问题有点像逻辑的评估，所以要抓住特点：
(C) A newspaper article assessing the
historical importance of a United States President writtenshortly after the President has taken office
C 表明对新上任的美国总统进行历史性评述，这也就如同和W和TP的书一样，对当时的事件做评论是存在这样的handicap的，这样也对照了
这篇文章的主题论点： “It is difficult to predict when "new pasts" will overturn established historical interpretations and change the course of history. ”-----即不同的时段看待过往的历史都会有新的诠释。
以上是我的分析吧，这篇文章是挺难的。我当时为prevailling dogma的D选项纠结了很久。呵呵 考试考到这样的文章 还是很可怕的。

staren21cn

谢谢细致的回答。这句话到底该怎么翻译： suffer under some of the handicaps that might be expected in a history of the American Revolu- tion published in 1776？主要是不理解这里面的mighy be expected是什么背后含义。我猜的大概的意思是这些困难的描写可以让历史看起来比较波澜壮阔，但如果这么理解的话又不知道为什么W要说他的书开始suffer于这种困难。

augest

第五题这几个态度的翻译：

(A) respectful regard - 含有敬意的关注
(B) qualified approbation  - 认可 ...
staren21cn 发表于 2010-6-25 07:09

    我选得更离谱，是Ｄ
我觉得作者在ＰＷ这两个人之间更反感Ｗ

另外这篇是要连读加做题１０分钟以内么？

xiaoxique89

谢谢细致的回答。这句话到底该怎么翻译： suffer under some of the handicaps that might be expected in  ...
staren21cn 发表于 2010-6-27 06:50

    这句话光看句子词汇很简单，难在隐含的比喻意思，这个就是要结合文章主旨和美国历史背景去理解了。
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."可以这么理解吧：第一版遭遇了一定的挫折（也可以理解为错误或者瑕疵，即历史年代错误），这样的挫折就如同预期在那本1776年出版的描写美国革命的历史书（的瑕疵）一样。
这里引述一下美国的历史：1776年美国建国，独立战争尚未结束，因此当时1776年那个时刻去描写历史是有局限性的，就如同后面的那个举例方向一样，即前面分析的这个例子一样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.
我们也可以想象一下：中国如果在1949年新中国成立的时刻来评述当时的历史，肯定不如后人的评价来得客观和公正，或者说历史视角更宽广吧。这样的handicap是不可避免的，也就是CVW和Thomas Paine他们等人不愿意道歉或者承认错误的原因，即文章的主题："new pasts" will overturn established historical interpretations and change the course of history。

captain_mas

那个qualified approbation 是部分认可的意思  就是说作者不是百分百认可的

mixmiss

好难呀