觉得这篇文章完全搞不懂，把握不住AUTHOR态度。错误率也奇高，而且看了解释也不能理解，请NN指教，我没有在讨论汇总找到这题的讨论，只好单独发。
Line 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
(5) 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 thefall of 1954，for example，C．Vann
(10) Woodward delivered a lecture series at the
University of Virginia that 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
(15) 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
(20) 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
(25) 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
(30) 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”. That was
a bit like hearing Thomas Paine apologize for the
timing of his pamphlet Common Sense，which had
(35) 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
(40)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
(45) Career of Jim Crow on the civiI rights movement
by praising the book and quoting it frequently.
Questions 129—134 refer to the passage above．
129．The“new pasts” mentioned in line 6 can best be
described as the
(A) occurrence of events extremely similar to
past events
(B) history of the activities of studying，
interpreting，and reading new historical
writing
(C) change in people's understanding of the past
due to more recent historical writing
(D) overturning of established historical
interpretations by politically motivated
politicians
(E) difficulty of predicting when a given historical
interpretation will be overturned
问题：答案选C
E选项：
题目问new past，很自然定位第一段，看其前后最近的context:
原文：It is difficult to predict when "new pasts" will overturn established historical interpretations and change the course of history.
选项中given historical interpretation，对原文established historical interpretations的改写
选项中difficulty of predicting，对原文it is difficult to predict的改写
选项中will be overturned，对原文will overturn
C选项：
在第一段中，并没有单指writing，看原文：
Line Historians sometimes forget that history is
continually being made and experienced before
it is studied，interpreted，and read．These latter
activities
不明白这题为什么不选E？
130．It can be inferred from the passage that the
“prevailing dogma”(lines 11-12)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 prac-
tices of different southern states
(C) Jim Crow laws were passed to erase the
social gains that black people had achieved
since Reconstruction
(D) the continuity 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
这题我错选了B，但是答案是A。
C．Vann Woodward delivered a lecture series at the
University of Virginia that challenged the prevailing
dogma concerning the history, continuity, and
uniformity of racial segregation in the South．
我觉得B选项的内容正是原文清楚地说明了prevailing dogma是concering什么东西的。
但是OG的解释是B选项的原文没有提及different souhern states，觉得有点不满意这个解释，应该A还有更优的地方？
131. 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 31?
(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
132. 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
(B) both wrote works that enjoyed widespread
popularity
(C) both exhibited an understanding of the
relevance of historical evidence to
contemporary issues
(D) the works of both had a significant effect On
events following their publication
(E) both were able to set aside worries about
historical anachronism in order to reach
and inspire
133．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
134．Which of the following best describes the new idea
expressed by C．Vann Woodward in his University of
Virginia lectures in 1954?
(A) Southern racial segregation was continuous and
uniform．
(B) Black people made considerable progress only
after Reconstruction．
(C) Jim Crow legislation was conventional in nature．
(D) Jim Crow laws did not go as far in codifying
traditional practice as they might have．
(E) Jim Crow laws did much more than merely
reinforce a tradition of segregation．
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