单选题 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 inquires into a historical problem, how one presents and documents one"s findings, what constitutes admissible and adequate proof. Anyone who has followed recent historical literature can testify to the revolution that is taking place in historical studies. The currently fashionable subjects come directly from the sociology catalog: childhood, work, leisure. The new subjects are accompanied by new methods. Where history once was primarily narrative, it is now entirely analytic. The old questions "What happened?" and "How did it happen?J" have give way to the question "Why did it happen?". Prominent among the methods used to answer the question "Why" is psychoanalysis, and its use has given rise to psychohistory. Psychohistory does not merely use psychological explanations in historical contexts. Historians have always used such explanations when they were appropriate and when there was sufficient evidence for them. But this pragmatic use of psychology is not what psychohistorians intend. They are committed, not just to psychology in general, but to Freudian psychoanalysis. This commitment precludes a 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 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. And it violates the basic tenet of historical method: that historians be alert to the negative instances that would refute their thesis. Psychohis-torians, convinced of the absolute Tightness of their own theories, are also convinced that theirs is the "deepest" explanation of any event, that other explanations all short of the truth. Psychohistory is not content to violate the discipline of history(in the sense of the proper mode of studying and writing about the past); it also violates the past itself. It denies to the past an integrity and will of its own, in which people acted out of a variety of motives and in which events had a multiplicity of causes and effects. It imposes upon the past the same determinism that it imposes upon the present, thus robbing people and events of their individuality and of their complexity. Instead of respecting the particularity of the past, it assimilates all events, past and present, into a single deterministic schema that is presumed to be true at all times and in all circumstances.

单选题 Which of the following best states the main point of the passage?

单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that one way in which traditional history can be distinguished from psychohistory is that traditional history usually______.

单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that the methods used by psychohistorians probably from______.

单选题 The passage supplies information for answering which of the following questions?

单选题 The author mentions which of the following as a characteristic of the practice of psychohistorians?

单选题 The author of the passage suggests that psychohistorians view history primarily as______.

单选题 The author of the passage puts the word "deepest"(para. 4, line 7)in quotation marks most probably in order to______.

单选题 In presenting her analysis, the author does all of the following EXCEPT:______.