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NarratorListen to part of a lecture in a history class.Now get ready to answer
NarratorListen to part of a lecture in a history class.Now get ready to answer
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2024-01-03
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Narrator
Listen to part of a lecture in a history class.
Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer. [br] According to the professor, what is the common aim of the different schools of historical theory?
Narrator
Listen to part of a lecture in a history class.
Professor
How much of man’s history do we know? It turns out we really know very little. Written records exist for only a fraction of what we suppose to have been man’s time as a unique species. Furthermore, the accuracy of these records is often suspected and the scope and selection of significant detail in them often needs improvement. At times there is no more than a collection of a few songs, myths and legends. Even in recent times, the not uncommon lack of truly factual historical data makes it difficult to reconstruct an accurate picture of what actually did happen in man’s history.
It is even worse when we try to reconstruct man’s history before the development of writing. This is unfortunate because the history of the greatest discoveries, such as fire, the wheel and the sail, as well as the history of the early development of human society are lost to us. The most that we can do is to use deduction, speculation and the knowledge we have of the habits of those animals which have some elementary social order to help us make a partial reconstruction. This is hardly a satisfactory substitute for precise information.
With our fragmentary and limited knowledge of human history, it is nearly impossible to reconstruct the beginning, and to deduce the end, of the story of man. Thus, many schools of thought on the subject have developed, each of which attempts to give coherence to the human past by fitting it into the framework of a general theory of history.
In one of these theories, it is assumed that man continually progresses. He has evolved from a lower to a higher form of being, and he continues to evolve. This evolution takes place both in terms of his potentials and his abilities to actualize these potentials. If one holds to this theory, one feels that modern man must be more intelligent and civilized today than his ancestors, as well as physically and morally superior to them. One further assumes that this progress will continue into an ever more glorious future. Here deduction often ends and dreams of Utopia begin, for it seems that most of us find it hard to think of the human race developing into a race of angels. All in all, as a theory of history, the above view has had many eminent supporters.
It might be well to mention here a variation on this theory that used to be popular, that is, the idea that man rose from a low condition to a Golden Age at some time in the remote past, and that things have gone straight downhill ever since. Many eminent men have found a sort of gloomy comfort in this idea, but science has now opened up possibilities for the future which make this theory less defendable. Perhaps for this reason the theory has little modern support.
A second theory of history is held by those men who see man’s history as something quite different from a simple progression from a lower to a higher state. They see it as a cycle of stages of development which are predictable in their broad outlines and main features. The chief pattern one sees in history is the rise and fall of civilizations.
Man, according to this theory, is warlike in one stage of his history and humane in another. This is not due to individual human beings or to general progress, but rather to determining socioeconomic patterns that are not, as yet, understood. To holders of this theory, modern man is not looked upon as the most superior social being yet produced. He is simply the typical product of the current stage in the cycle of our civilization. In fact he may actually be inferior to members of past civilizations. It all depends upon what stage of civilization we happen to be living in. Indeed, it has been said that the average modern literate city dweller is comparatively more ignorant of his era’s wealth of knowledge than other literate city dwellers of the past.
In a third theory of history, the two above theories are to some degree reconciled. According to this theory, which is often termed the spiral view of history, human societies do repeat a cycle of stages, but overall progress is observable in the long historical perspective. Civilizations do rise and fall, as the advocates of the second theory maintain, but the new civilization which replaces the first, usually by conquest, contains superior qualities which enable it to rise to a higher stage of development until it, too, declines and is replaced by yet a third civilization.
Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer.
23. What is the lecture mainly about?
24. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a reason for the difficulties in reconstructing history?
25. According to the professor, what is the common aim of the different schools of historical theory?
26. According to the professor, which of the following is true of the first theory?
27. What is the professor’s attitude toward the second theory?
28. What does the professor mean when he says this?
Professor
In a third theory of history, the two above theories are to some degree reconciled.
选项
A、To bridge the gap between theory and historical facts.
B、To give guidance to modern society’s development.
C、To predict the future development of human society.
D、To reconstruct the beginning of human society.
答案
A
解析
本题为细节题。题目问:各历史理论学派的共同目标是什么?B项(为现代社会的发展提供指导)、C项(预测人类社会未来的发展)和D项(再现人类社会的起源)都不符合题意。教授在引出几种不同的历史理论前说道:“Thus,many schools of thought on the subject havedeveloped,each of which attempts to give coherence to the human past by fitting it into theframework of a general theory of history(关于这一学科,产生了许多理论学派,每一个学派都试图通过建立一个历史的通用理论框架来对人类的过去进行统一的描述)”,因此,A项(实现理论与史实相结合)为正确答案。
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