Part
One: l . Anyone with half an eye on the unemployment figures knew
that the assertion about economic recovery __ just around the corner
was untrue. [A]wouLd be [B]to be [C]was [D]being 2. Smoking
is so harmful to personal health that it kills __ people each year
than automo- bile accidents. [A]seven more times [B]seven times
more [C]over seven times [D]seven times 3. It` s easy to blame
the decline of conversation on the pace of modern life and on the
vague changes __ place in our ever-changing world. [A] taking
[B]to take [C]take [D]taken 4. This is an exciting area of study,
and one __ which new applications are being discov- ered almost
daily. [A] from [B]by [C] in [D] through 5 . __ can be seen
from the comparison of these figures, the principle involves the active participation
of the patient in the modification of his condition. [A]As [B]What
[C]That [D] It 6. Although I had been invited to the opening ceremony
, I was unable to attend __ such short notice. [A]to [B]in [C]with
[D]on 7. California has more light than it knows __ to do with
but everything else is expensive. [A] how [ B] what [ C] which
[D] where 8. The solution works only for couples who are self-employed,
don` t have small children and get along __ to spend most of their
time together. [A]so well [B]too well [C]well as [D]well enough 9.
Marlin is a young man of independent thinking who is not about __
compliments to his political leaders . [A]paying [B]having paid
[C]to pay [D] to have paid 10. These proposals sought to place
greater restrictions on the use and copying of digital informa- tion
than __ in traditional media. [A]exist [B]exists [ C]existing
[D]to exist 11. Your math instructor would have been happy to give
you a makeup examination [A] had you gone and
explained that your parents had been ill at the time. [B][C]
[D] 12. As the children become financially independent of the family,
the emphasis on family fi- [A][B]
[C] nancial security will shift from protection to save for the
retirement years. [D] 13. Were the Times
Co. to purchase another major media company, there is no doubt that
it [A] could dramatically transform a family-ran enterprise
that still gets 90% of its revenues [B][C][D] from
newspapers . 14. Symposium talks will cover a wide range of subjects
from overfishing to physical and [A][B] environment
factors that affect the populations of different species. [C]
[D] 15 . Convenation calls for a willingness to alternate the role
of speaker with one of listener , and [A][B]
[C] it calls for occasional ` digestive pauses` by both.
[D] 16. If two theories are equal to their ability to account for
a body of data, the theory that [A]
[B] does so with the smaller nomber of assumptions is to be preferred.
[c] [D] 17. The Committee adopted a resolution
requiring the seven automakers selling the most cars in [A]
[B] the state making 2 percent of those vehicles emissions-free
by 1998. [C] [D] 18. As long as poor
people, who in general are colored, are in conflict with richer people,
who in [A][B] general are lighter
skin, there` s going to be a constant racial conflict in the world. [C]
[D] 19 . All those left undone may sound greatly in theory, but
even the trust believer has great dif- [A][B]
[C] ficulty when it comes to specifics. [D] 20 . Even
if automakers modify commercially produced cars to run on alternative
fuels, the cars [A] [B] [C] won`
t catch on in a big way when drivers can fill them up at the gas station. [D] 21
. An important property of a scientific theory is its ability to ___
further research and fur- ther thinking about a particular topic. [
A] stimulate [ B] renovate [ C] arouse [ D] advocate 22 . Although
architecture has artistic qualities, it must also satisfy a number
of important practi- cal __. [ A] obligations [B] regulations
[ C ] observations [ D] considerations 23 . Life insurance is financial
protection for dependents against loss __ the bread-winner` s death
. [A]at the cost of [B]on the verge of [C]as a result of [D]for
the sake of 24. In education there should be a good __ among the
branches of knowledge that con- tribute to effective thinking and
wise judgment . [ A] distribution [ B] balance [ C] combination
[ D] assignment 25 . The American dream is most __ during the periods
of productivity and wealth generat- ed by American capitalism. [A]
plausible [B] patriotic [ C] primitive [D] partial 26 . Poverty
is not __ in most cities although, perhaps because of the crowded
conditions in certain areas, it is more visible there. [ A]
rare [ B] temporary [ C] prevalent [ D] segmental 27. People who
live in small towns often seem more friendly than those living in
__ popu- lated areas. [A] densely [ B] intensely [ C] abundantly
[D] highly 28. As a way of __ the mails while they were away, the
Johnsons asked the cleaning lady to send little printed slips asking
the senders to write again later. [A]picking up [B]coping with
[C]passing out [D]getting across 29 . Tom` s mother tried hard
to persuade him to __ from his intention to invest his savings in
stock market . [A]pull out [B]give up [C]draw in [D]back down 30.
An increasing proportion of our population, unable to live without
advanced medical __ , will become progressively more reliant on
expensive technology. [ A] interference [ B] interruption [ C]
intervention [ D] interaction 31 . These causes produced the great
change in the country that modernized the __ of high- er education
from the mid-1860`s to the mid-1880`s. [ A] branch [ B]category
t C] domain [D] scope 32 . Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously
the __ in the financial system will drag down the economy. [
A] shallowness [ B] shakiness [ C] scantiness [ D] stiffness 33
. Crisis would be the right term to describe the __ in many animal
species. . [ A] minimization [ B] restriction [ C] descent [ D]
decline 34 . The city is an important railroad __ and industrial
and convention center. [A] conjunction [ B] network [ C]junction
[D] link 35. Prof. White, my respected tutor, frequently reminds
me to __ myself of every chance to improve my English. [ A]
assure [ B] inform [ C] avail [D] notify 36. Researchers discovered
that plants infected with a virus give off a gas that __ disease resistance
in neighboring plants. [ A.] contracts [ B] activates [ C] maintains
[ D] prescribe 37 . Corporations and labor unions have __ great
benefits upon their employees and mem- bers as well as upon the
general pubtic. [A] conferred [ B]granted [ C] flung [D] submitted 38.
The movement of the moon conveniently provided the unit of month,
which was __ from one new moon to the next. [ A] measured [
B] reckoned [ C]judged [ D] assessed 39. The judge ruled that the
evidence was inadmissible on the grounds that it was __ to the
issue at hand. [ A] irrational [ B] unreasonable [ C] invalid [
D] irrelevant 40. Fuel scarcities and price increases __ automobile
designers to scale down the largest models and to develop completely
new lines of small cars and trucks. [ A] persuaded [ B] prompted
[ C] imposed [ D] enlightened Part two: Cloze Test
Industrial safety does not just happen.Companies _41__ low accident
rates plan their safety programs, work hard to organize them,and
continue working to keep them 42 and active. When the work is well
done, a 43 of accident-free operations is established _44__ time lost
due to injuries is kept at a minimum. Successful safety
programs may 45 greatly in the emphasis placed on certain aspects
of the program. Some place great emphasis on mechanical guarding.
Others stress safe work practices by _46__ rules or regulations._47_
others depend on an emotional appeal to the worker. But, there are
certain basic ideas that must be used in every progr8m if maximum
results are to be obtained. There can be no question about
the value of a safety program. From a financial stand-point alone, safety
_48__. The fewer the injury 49,the better the workman`s insurance
rate. This may mean the diff- erence between operating at _50__or
at a loss. 41. [A]at [B]in [C]on [D]with 42. [A]alive [B]vivid
[ C]mobile [D] diverse 43. [A]regulation [B]climate [C]circumstance
[D]requirement 44. [A]where [B]how [ C]what [D]unless 45. [A]alter
[B]differ [ C] shift [D] distinguish 46. [A] constituting [ B]
aggravating [ C]observing [D]justifying 47. [A]Some [B]Many [C]Even
[D]Still 48. [A]comes off [B]turns up [C]pays off [D]holds up 49.
[A]claims [B]reports [ C] declarations [ D] proclamations 50. [A]an
advantage [B]a benefit [C]an interest [D]a profit
Part three:
Passage l It`s a rough world out there. Step outside
and you could break a leg slipping on your door- mat. Light up
the stove and you could burn down the house. Luckily, if the doormat
or stove failed to warn of coming disaster, a successful lawsuit
might compensate you for your troubles. Or so the thinking has
gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies
liable for their customers` misfortunes. Feeling threatened
, companies responded by writing ever-longer warning labels, trying
to anticipate every possibLe accident. Today, stepladders carry
labels several inches long that warn , among other things, that
you might-surprise! --fall off. The label on a child ` s Batman cape cautions
that the toy "does not enable user to fly. " While
warnings are often appropriate and necessary--the dangers of drug
interactions, for example--and many are required by state or federal
regulations, it isn`t clear that they actually protect the manufacturers
and sellers from liability if a customer is injured. About 50 percent
of the companies lose when injured customers take them to court.
Now the tide appears to be turning. As personal injury claims continue
as before, some courts are beginning to side with defendants, especially
in cases where a warning label probably wouldn`t have changed anything.
In May , Julie Nimmons, president of Schutt Sports in Illinois, successfully
fought a lawsuit involving a football player who was paralyzed in
a game while wear- ing a Schutt helmet. "We` re really sorry
he has become paralyzed , but helmets aren` t designed to prevent
those kinds of injuries , " says Nimmons. The jury agreed that
the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reason for the
athlete`s injury. At the same time, the American Law Insti- tute--a
group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry
substantial weight-issued new guidelines for tort law stating that
companies need not warn customers of ob- vious dangers or bombard
them with a lengthy list of possible ones. " Important information
can get buried in a sea of trivialities, " says a law professor
at Cornell law School who helped draft the new guidelines. If the
moderate end of the legal community has its way, the information on
prod- ucts might actually be provided for the benefit of customers
and not as protection against legal lia- bility. . 51 . What
were things like in 1980s when accidents happened? [A] Customers
might be relieved of their disasters through lawsuits. [B] Injured
customers could expect protection from the legal system. [C]Companies
would avoid being sued by providing new warnings. [D]Juries tended
to find fault with the compensations companies promised. 52. Manufacturers
as mentioned in the passage tend to__ [A]satisfy customers by writing
long warnings on products [B]become honest in describing the inadequacies
of their products [C]make the best use of labels to avoid legal
liability [D]feel obliged to view customers` safety as their first
concern 53. The case of Schutt helmet demonstrated that__ [A]some
injury claims were no longer supported by law [B]helmets were not
designed to prevent injuries [C]product labels would eventually
be discarded [D]some sports games might lose popularity with athletes 54.
The author` s attitude towards the issue seems to be__ [A] biased
[ B] indifferent [ C] puzzling [D]objective
Passage 2
In the first year or so of Web business, most of the action has revolved
around efforts to tap the consumer market. More recently, as the
Web proved to be more than a fashion, companies have started to
buy and sell products and services with one another. Such business-to-business sales
make sense because businesspeople typically know what product they`re
looking for. Nonetheless, many companies still hesitate to
use the Web because of doubts about its relia- bility. "Businesses
need to feel they can trust the pathway between them and the supplier,
" says senior analyst Blane Erwin of Forrester Research. Some
companies are limiting the risk by con- ducting online transactions
only with established business partners who are given access to the company
` s private internet . Another major shift in the model for
Internet commerce concerns the technology available for marketing.
Until recently, Internet marketing activities have focused on strategies
to "pull" cus- tomers into sites. In the past year, however,
software companies have developed tools that allow companies to
"push" information directly out to consumers , transmitting
marketing messages di- rectly to targeted customers. Most notably,
the Pointcast Network uses a screen saver to deliver a continualiy
updated stream of news and advertisements to subscribers` computer
monitors. Sub- scribers can customize the information they want
to receive and proceed directly to a company ` s Web site. Companies
such as Virtual Vineyards are already starting to use similar technologies
to push messages to customers about special sales, product offerings,
or other events. But push tech- nology has earned the contempt
of many Web users. Online culture thinks highly of the notion that
the information flowing onto the screen comes there by specific request.
Once commercial promotion begins to fill the screen uninvited,
the distinction between the Web and television fades. That`s a
prospect that horrifies Net purists. But it is hardly inevitable
that companies on the Web will need to resort to push strategies to make
money. The examples of Virtual Vineyards, Amazon.com, and other pioneers
show that a Web site selling the right kind of products with the
right mix of interactivity, hospitality, and se- curity will attract
online customers. And the cost of computing power continues to free
fall, which is a good sign for any enterprise setting up shop in
silicon. People looking back 5 or 10 years from now may well wonder
why so few companies took the online plunge. 55 . We learn from
the beginning of the passage that Web business__ [A] has been striving
to expand its market [B]intended to follow a fanciful fashion [C]tried
but in vain to control the market [D]has been booming for one year
or so 56. Speaking of the online technology available for marketing,
the author implies that__ [A] the technology is popular with many
Web users [B]businesses have faith in the reliability of online
transactions [C]there is a radical change in strategy [D] it
is accessible limitedly to established partners 57. In the view
of Net purists,__ [A]there should be no marketing messages in online
culture [ B]money making should be given priority to on the Web [C]the
Web should be able to function as the television set [D] there
should be no online commercial information without requests 58.
We learn from the last paragraph that __ [A]pushing information
on the Web is essential to Internet commerce [ B] interactivity
, hospitality and security are important to online customers [
C]leading companies began to take the online plunge decades ago [D]setting
up shops in silicon is independent of the cost of computing power
Passage
3 An invisible border divides those arguing for computers in
the classroom on the behalf of stu- dents` career prospects and
those arguing for computers in the classroom for broader reasons of radical
educational reform. Very few writers on the subject have explored
this distinction-in- deed, contradiction--which goes to the heart
of what is wrong with the campaign to put comput- ers in the classroom.
An education that aims at getting a student a certain kind of job
is a technical education, jus- tified for reasons radically different
from why education is universally required by law. It is not simply
to raise everyone` s job prospects that all children are legally required
to attend school into their teens. Rather, we have a certain conception
of the American citizen, a character who is in- complete if he
cannot competently assess how his livelihood and happiness are affected
by things outside of himself. But this was not always the case;
before it was legally required for all children to attend school
until a certain age, It was widely accepted that some were just not
equipped by nature to pursue this kind of education. With optimism
characteristic of all industrialized coun- tries , we came to accept
that everyone is fit to be educated. Computer-education advocates
forsake this optimistic notion for a pessimism that betrays their
otherwise cheery outlook. Banking on the confusion between educational
and vocational reasons for bringing computers into schools, com- puter-ed
advocates often emphasize the job prospects of graduates over their
educational achieve- ment . There are some good arguments
for a technical education given the right kind of student. Many
European schools introduce the concept of professional training early
on in order to make sure children are properly equipped for the
professions they want to join. It is, however, pre- sumptuous to
insist that there will only be so many jobs for so many scientists,
so many business- men, so many accountants. Besides, this is unlikely
to produce the needed number of every kind of professional in a
country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many
states and involves so many international corporations.
But, for a small group of students, professional training might be
the way to go since well- developed skills, all other factors being
equal , can be the difference between having a job and not. Of
course, the basics of using any computer these days are very simple.
It does not take a lifelong acquaintance to pick up various software
programs. If one wanted to become a computer engineer , that is,
of course, an entirely different story. Basic computer skills take--at
the very longest-a couple of months to learn. In any case, basic
computer skills are only complementary to the host of real skills
that are necessary to becoming any kind of professional. It should
be observed, of course, that no school, vocational or not, is helped
by a confusion over its purpose. 59. The author thinks the present
rush to put computers in the classroom is__ [ A] far-reaching [
B] dubiously oriented [ C] self-contradictory [ D] radically reformatory 60.
The belief that educalion is indispensable to all children__ [A]is
indicative of a pessimism in disguise [B]came into being along
with the arrival of computers [C]is deeply rooted in the minds
of computer-ed advocates [ D]originated from the optimistic attitude
of industrialized countries 61 . It could be inferred from the
passage that in the author` s country the European model of pro- fessional
training is__ [A]dependent upon the starting age of candidates [B]worth
trying in various social sections [C]of little practical value [D]
attractive to every kind of professional 62 . According to the
author, basic computer skills should be__ [A] included as an auxiliary
course in school [ B] highlighted in acquisition of professional
qualifications [ C]mastered through a life-long course [ D]
equally emphasized by any school , vocational or otherwise
Passage
4 When a Scottish research team startled the world by revealing
3 months ago that it had cloned an adult sheep, President Clinton
moved swiftly. Declaring that he was opposed to using this unusual
animal husbandry technique to clone humans , he ordered that federal
funds not be used for such an experiment- although no one had proposed
to do so--and asked an independent panel of experts chaired by Prinoeton President
Harold Shapiro to report back to the White House in 90 days with recommendations
for a na- tional policy on human cloning. That group--the National
Bioethics Advisory Commission ( NBAC)-has been working feverishly
to put its wisdom on paper, and at a meeting on 17 May, members agreed
on a near-final draft of their recommendations. NBAC will
ask that Clinton ` s 90-day ban on federal funds for human cloning
be extended in- definitely , and possibly that it be made law.
But NBAC members are planning to word the recom- mendation narrowly
to avoid new restrictions on research that involves the cloning of
human DNA or cells-routine in molecular biology. The panel has
not yet reached agreement on a crucial ques- tion, however, whether
to recommend legislation that would make it a crime for private funding to
be used for human cloning. In a draft preface to the recommendations,
discussed at the 17 May meeting, Shapiro sug- gested that the panel
had found a broad consensus that it would be "morally unacceptable
to at- tempt to create a human child by adult nuclear cloning.
" Shapiro explained during the meeting that the moral doubt
stems mainly from fears about the risk to the health of the child.
The panel then informally accepted several general conclusions
, although some details have not been settled. NBAC plans to
call for a continued ban on federal government funding for any attempt
to clone body cell nuclei to create a child. Because current federal
law already forbids the use of fed- eral funds to create embryos
( the earliest stage of human offspring before birth) for research
or to knowingly endanger an embryo` s life, NBAC will remain silent
on embryo research. NBAC members also indicated that they will
appeal to privately funded researchers and clinics not to try to
clone humans by body cell nuclear transfer. But they were divided
on whether to go further by calling for a federal law that would
impose a complete ban on human cloning. Shapiro and most members
favored an appeal for such legislation , but in a phone interview,
he said this is- sue was still "up in the air. " 63.
We can learn from the first paragraph that__ [A]federal funds have
been used in a project to clone humans [B] the White House responded
strongly to the news of cloning [C]NBAC was authorized to control
the misuse of cloning technique [D]the White House has got the
panel`s recommendations on cloning 64. The panel agreed on all
of the following except that__ [A]the ban on federal funds for
human cloning should be made a law [B]the cloning of human DNA
is not to be put under more control [C]it is crimtnal to use private
funding for human cloning [D]it would be against ethical values
to clone a human being 65 . NBAC will leave the issue of embryo
research undiscussed because__ [A]embryo research is just a current
development of cloning [B]the health of the child is not the main
concern of embryo research [C]an embryo` s life will not be endangered
in embryo research [D]the issue is expLicitly stated and settled
in the law 66. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that__ [A]some
NBAC members hesitate to ban human cloning completely [B]a law
banning human cloning is to be passed in no time [C] privately
funded researchers will respond positively to NBAC` s appeal [D]the
issue of human cloning will soon be settled
Passage 5
Science, in practice, depends far less on the experiments it prepares
than on the preparedness of the minds of the men who watch the
experiments. Sir Isaac Newton supposedly discovered gravity through the
fall of an apple. Apples had been falling in many places for centuries
and thousands of people had seen them fall. But Newton for years had
been curious about the cause of the orbital motion of the moon and
planets. What kept them in place? Why didn` t they fall out of the
sky? The fact that the apple fell down toward the earth and not up
into the tree answered the question he had been asking himself about
those lalger fruits of the heavens, the moon and the planets.
How many men would have considered the possibility of an apple falling
up into the tree? Newton did because he was not trying to predict
anything. He was just wondering.His mind was ready for the unpredictable.
Unpredictabllity is part of the essential nature of research. If you
don` t have unpredictable things, you don` t have research. Scienltists
tend to forget this when writing their cut and dried reports for the
technical journals, but history is filled with examples of it.
In talking to some scienlists, particularly younger ones, you might
gather the impression that they find the "scientific melhod"
a substitute for imaginative thought . I`ve attended research conferences
where a scientist has been asked what he thinks about the advisability
of continuing a certain experiment. The scientist has frowned,
looked at the graphs, and said "the data are still inconclusive."
"We know that, " the men from the budget office have said,
"but what do you think? Is it worthwhile going on? What do
you think we might expect?" The scientist has been shocked
at having even been asked to speculate. What this amounts to,
of course, is that the scientist has become the victim of his own
writ- ings. He has put forward unquestioned claims so consistently
that he not only believes them him- self, but has convinced industrial
and business management that they are true. If experiments are planned
and carried out according to plan as faithfully as the reports in
the science journals indi- cate , then it is perfectly logical
for management to expect research to produce results measurable in
dollars and cents. It is entirely reasonable for auditors to believe
that scientists who know ex- actly where they are going and how
they will get there should not be distracted by the necessity of keeping
one eye on the cash register while the other eye is on the microscope.
Nor, if regularity and conformity to a standard pattern are as
desirable to the scientist as the writing of his papers would appear
to reflect , is management to be blamed for discriminating against
the "odd balls a- mong researchers in favor of more conventional
thinkers who "work well with the team. " 67. The author
wants to prove with the example of Isaac Newton that __ [A] inquiring
minds are more important than scientific experiments [B] science
advances when fruitful researches are conducted [C] scientists
seldom forget the essential nature of research [D] unpredictability
weighs less than prediction in scientific research 68 . The author
asserts that sclentists __ [A] shouldn`t replace "scientific
method" with imaginative thought [ B] shouldn`t neglect to
speculate on unpredictable things [ C] should write more concise
reports for technical journals [D]should be confident about their
research findings 69. It seems that some young scientists__ [A]have
a keen interest in prediction [B]often speculate on the future [C]
think highly of creative thinking [D]stick to "scientific
method" 70. The author implies that the results of scientific
research__ [A]may not be as profitable as they are expected [B]can
be measured in dollars and cents [C] rely on conformity to a standard
pattern [D]are mostly underestimated by management
Part
IV: English-Chinese Translation 71) While there are almost
as many definitions of history as there are historians,modern practice
most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate
and explain the significant events of the past. Caught in the web
of its own time and place, each generation of historians determines
anew what is significant for it in the past. In thls search the evidence
found is always incomplete and scattered; it is also frequently
partial or partisan. The irony of the histo- rian` s craft is that
its practitioners always know that their efforts are but contributions
to an un- ending process . 72) Interest in historical methods
has arisen less through external challenge to the validity of history
as an intellectual discipline and more from internal quarrels among
historians themselves. While history once revered its affinity
to literature and philosophy, the emerging social sciences seemed
to afford greater opportunities for asking new questtons and providing
rewarding ap- proaches to an understanding of the past. Social
science methodologies had to be adapted to a dis- cipline governed
by the primacy of historical sources rather than the imperatives of
the contempo- rary world. 73) During this transfer , traditional
historical methods were augmented by additional methodologies designed
to interpret the new forms of evidence in the historical study.
Methodology is a term that remains inherently ambiguous in the historical
profession. 74 ) There is no agreement whether methodology refers
to the concepts peculiar to historical work in general or to the
research techniques appropriate to the various branches of historical
inquiry. His- torians, especially those so blinded by their research
interests that they have been accused of "tun- nel method
, " frequently fall victim to the "technicist fallacy. "
Also common in the natural sci- ences , the technicist fallacy
mistakenly identifies the discipline as a whole with certain parts
of its technical implementation. 75 ) It applies equally to traditional
historians who view history as only the external and intemal criticism
of sources, and to social science historians who equate their ac- tivity
with specific techniques.
Part V Writing (15 points) 76
. Directions: A. Study the following graphs carefully and write
an essay in at least 150 words. B. Your essay must be written neatly
on ANSWER SHEET Ⅱ. C. Your essay should cover these three points: l
. effect of the country`s growing human population on its wildlife 2
. possible reason for the effect 3 . your suggestion for wildlife
protection
答案: 1. D 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. A 6. D 7. B
8. D 9. C IO. A 11. D, were 12. D, saving 13. C, family-run
14. C, environmental 15. B, that 16. A, in 17. C, to make 18.
D, skinned 19. B, great 20. D, until 21. A 22. D 23. C 24. B
25. A 26. C 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. C 31. C 32. B 33. D 34. C
35. C 36. B 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. B 41. D 42. A 43. B 44. A
45. B 46. C 47. D 48. C 49. A 50. D 51. B 52. C 53. A 54. D
55. A 56. C 57. D 58. B 59. B 60. D 61. C 62. A 63. B 64. C
65. D 66. A 67. A 68. B 69. D 70. A 71.几乎每个历史学家对史学都有自己的界定,但现代史学家的实践最趋向于认为历史 学是试图重现过去的重大史实并对其做出解释。 72.人们之所以关注历史研究的方法论,主要是因为史学界内部意见不一,其次是因为外 界并不认为历史是一门学问。 73.在这种转变中,历史学家研究历史时,那些解释新史料的新方法充实了传统的历史研 究方法。 74.所谓方法论是指一般的历史研究中的特有概念,还是指历史探究中各个具体领域适 用的研究手段,人们对此意见不一。 75.这种谬误同样存在于历史传统派和历史社科派;前者认为历史就是史学界内部和外 部人士对各种史料来源的评论,后者认为历史的研究是具体方法的研究。
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