Ability to ______ is the test of the perceptive historian, a history, after all, consists not only of what the historian has included, but also, in some sense, of what has been left out.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】- 方程等号：第一个逗号，前后句意同义重复。 - 强词和对应：根据题意，历史不仅由历史学家收录的部分组成，还由被遗漏的部分组成。因此空格和consists of…included及left out构成同义重复，体现对有洞察力的历史学家的考验是对于“已经包括的和被人遗漏的”均有关注。defer推迟，select选择，confer授予，devise设计，reflect反思。select的英文释义为to choose(as by fitness or excellence)，答案选B。