GRE阅读练习题及答案（26）

　　(B) producing a one-sided picture of an individual’s personality and motivations
　　(C) uncovering alternative explanations that might cause them to question their own conclusions
　　(D) offering a consistent interpretation of the impact of personality on historical events
　　(E) recognizing connections between a government’s political actions and the aspirations of government leaders
　　23. The passage supplies information for answering which of the following questions?
　　(A) What are some specific examples of the use of psychohistory in historical interpretation?
　　(B) When were the conventions governing the practice of traditional history first established?
　　(C) When do traditional historians consider psychological explanations of historical developments appropriate?
　　(D) What sort of historical figure is best suited for psychohistorical analysis?
　　(E) What is the basic criterion of historical evidence required by traditional historians?
　　24. The author mentions which of the following as a characteristic of the practice of psychohistorians?
　　(A) The lives of historical figures are presented in episodic rather than narrative form.
　　(B) Archives used by psychohistorians to gather material are not accessible to other scholars.
　　(C) Past and current events are all placed within the same deterministic schema.
　　(D) Events in the adult life of a historical figure are seen to be more consequential than are those in the childhood of the figure.
　　(E) Analysis is focused on group behavior rather than on particular events in an individual’s life.
　　25. The author of the passage suggests that psychohistorians view history primarily as
　　(A) a report of events, causes, and effects that is generally accepted by historians but which is, for the most part, unverifiable
　　(B) an episodic account that lacks cohesion because records of the role of childhood, work, and leisure in the lives of historical figures are rare
　　(C) an uncharted sea of seemingly unexplainable events that have meaning only when examined as discrete units
　　(D) a record of the way in which a closed set of immutable psychological laws seems to have shaped events
　　(E) a proof of the existence of intricate causal interrelationships between past and present events
　　26. The author of the passage puts the word “deepest” (line 44) in quotation marks most probably in order to
　　(A) signal her reservations about the accuracy of psychohistorians’ claims for their work
　　(B) draw attention to a contradiction in the psychohistorians’ method
　　(C) emphasize the major difference between the traditional historians’ method and that of psychohistorians
　　(D) disassociate her opinion of the psychohistorians’ claims from her opinion of their method
　　(E) question the usefulness of psychohistorians’ insights into traditional historical scholarship
　　27. In presenting her analysis, the author does all of the following EXCEPT:
　　(A) Make general statement without reference to specific examples.
　　(B) Describe some of the criteria employed by traditional historians.
　　(C) Question the adequacy of the psychohistorians’ interpretation of events.
　　(D) Point out inconsistencies in the psychohistorians’ application of their methods.
　　(E) Contrast the underlying assumptions of psychohistorians with those of traditional historians.