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Historians sometimes forget that history is continually being made and exper

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问题     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 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 the fall of 1954, for example, C. Vann Woodward delivered a lecture series at the University of Virginia which 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 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 of Jim Crow legis- lation 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 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 first edition "had begun to suffer under some of the handicaps that might be ex- pected 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 a compara- ble 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 histori- cal anachronism. Yet, like Paine, Woodward 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 Career of Jim Crow on the civil rights movement by praising the book and quoting it frequently. [br] 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 39?
选项 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.
答案 C
解析 哪一种像是L39所说的“障碍、缺陷”?总结原文，这种缺陷是：在一历史事件正式出现以前就对其做一些历史总结性的描述，因此难免有史实错误，L36—41。∴C正确。报纸文章在美国总统刚就任不久就对其历史重要性作评估。A、B、D、E不合上述总结。
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