The extraction of case histories is not, however, the only use to which court records may be put. Historians who study pre-industrial Europe have used the records to establish a series or categories of crime and to quantify indictments that were issued over a given number of years.
The author suggests that, before the early 1950s, most historians who studied pre-industrial Europe did which of the following?
failed to make distinctions among members of the pre-industrial European political and social elite
used investigatory methods that were almost exclusively statistical in nature
inaccurately estimated the influence of the pre-industrial European political and social elite
confined their work to a narrow range of the pre-industrial European population
tended to rely heavily on birth, marriage and death records
分析:
这篇文章在开头段就提到50年代早期,研究欧洲前工业时期历史的学者第一次开始大规模地研究人口总数97%的普通人民群众。题目中所问的是在50年代之前的情况,这正与50年代的情况形成了强对比。所以,正确答案应该是与50年代的情况相反的信息,在50年代,就有了将近97%的普通人民群众,说明这是一个很大的比率,将近100%。那么,在50年代之前,可以肯定的是没有50年代进步,所以,人数一定比50年代要少,可能是很少的以部分。这样,通过这样的强对比,我们可以确定答案A是正确的,即50年代之前的学者将其研究局限于前工业时期欧洲人口的一小部分。
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