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  3. Traditionally, the study of history has had fixed boundaries and focal points-periods, countries, dramatic events, and great lea

Traditionally, the study of history has had fixed boundaries and focal points-periods, countries, dramatic events, and great lea

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问题     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?" have given 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 psy-chohistory.
    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 psycho-historians intend. They are committed, not just to psychology in general, but to Freudian psychoanalysis. This commitment excludes 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 produces 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 principle of historical methods; that historians be alert to the negative instances that would refute their views. Psycho-historians, convinced of the absolute rightness of their own theories are also convinced that theirs is the "deepest" explanation of any event, that other explanations fall 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 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.
The passage supplies information for answering which of the following questions?
选项 A、What are some specific examples of the use of psychohistory in historical interpretation?
B、What is the basic criterion of historical evidence required by traditional historians?
C、When do traditional historians consider psychological explanations of historical developments appropriate?
D、What sort of historical figure is best suited for psycho-historical analysis?
答案B
解析 此题考查文章细节，需逐个排查。A项提到some specific examples，而文中并未举例。C、D两项的内容文中均未提及。只有B项，在第三段中间it denies the basiccriterion of historical evidence，由此可得本题B为正确答案。
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