[单项选择]American literary historians are perhaps ______ to viewing their own national scene too narrowly, mistaking prominence for uniqueness.
A. prone
B. legible
C. incompatible
D. prior

[单项选择]American literary historians are perhaps ______ to viewing their own national scene too narrowly, mistaking prominence for uniqueness. A. prone B. legible C incompatible D. prior

[单项选择]The Romantic writers in the American literary history focused on all the following issues EXCEPT
A. divinity of mail．
B. human bestiality．
C. noble savages．
D. Puritan beliefs．

[单项选择]Literary historians believe Emily Dickinson had a lonely existence, finding joy only in her poetry.
A. friendship
B. happiness
C. expression
D. interest

[单项选择]The universal historians give contradictory replies to that question, while the historians of culture ______ giving a direct answer.
A. evade
B. miss
C. shirk
D. steer

[单项选择]The biggest difficulty facing historians might be their _______.


A. inability to offer convicting and correct explanations to each historical figure or event
B. lack of evidence for their interpretation
C. obsession with absolute accuracy
D. unwillingness to Doterpret history from different perspectives

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Text 4
Increasingly, historians are blaming diseases imported from the Old World for the great disparity between the native population of America in 1492--new estimates of which jump as high as 100 million, or approximately one-sixth of the human race at that time—and the few million full-blooded Native Americans alive at the end of the nineteenth century. There is no doubt that chronic disease was an important factor in the sharp decline, and it is highly probable that the greatest killer was epidemic disease, especially as manifested in virgin-soil epidemics.
Virgin-soil epidemics are those in which the populations at risk have had no previous contact with the diseases that strike them and are therefore immunologically almost defenseless. That virgin-soil epidemics were important in American history is strongly indicated by evidence that a number of dangerous maladies—smallpox, measles, malaria, yellow fever, and undoubtedly several more&mdash
A. demonstrate the impact of modern medicine on epidemic disease.
B. refute allegations of unreliability made against the historical record of colonial America.
C. advocate new research into the continuing problem of epidemic disease.
D. confirm the documentary evidence of epidemic disease in colonial America.

[单项选择]Historians have established that Charles the III regretted the ------- of his treasury, the consequence of several expensive war campaigns, but he nevertheless trusted that he would find ------- in his struggle against the king of France.
A. (A) scope... aid
B. (B) penury... favor
C. (C) deficiency... sagacity
D. (D) paucity... defeat
E. (E) dearth.., cogency

[单项选择]Some historians believe that John Jay could have played （） in America's history as James Madison.
A. as an important role
B. as important a role
C. an important role as
D. a role as important

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Text 3
Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and service that took place in eighteenth century England. McKendrick has explored the Wedgwood firm’ s remarkable success in marketing luxury pottery; Plumb has written about the proliferations of provincial theaters, musical festivals, and children’ s toys and books. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly in doubt, three key questions remain: Who were the consumers What were their motives7 And what were the effects of the new demand for luxuries
An answer to the flint of these has been difficult to obtain. Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and services actually produced what manufacturers and servicing trades thought their customers wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what. We still need to know how large this consumer market was and
A. investigate the extent of the demand for luxury goods
B. classify the kinds of luxury goods desired by eighteenth century consumers
C. explain the motivation of eighteenth century consumers to buy luxury goods
D. establish the extent to which the tastes of rich consumers were shaped by the middle classes in eighteenth century England