水木艾迪：阅读理解冲刺之新题型四_大学英语阅读

水木艾迪：阅读理解冲刺之新题型四

　　43)_______________.

　　In its broadest sense, history denotes the whole of the human past. More restricted is the notion that history is the recorded past, that is, that part of human life which has left some sort of record such as folk tales, artifacts, or written documents. Finally, history may be defined as that which historians write about the past. Of course the three meanings are related. Historians must base their accounts on the remains of the past, left by people. Obviously they cannot know everything for the simple reason that not every event, every happening, was fully and completely recorded. 44)____________.

　　But this does not say enough. If historians cannot know everything because not everything was recorded, neither do they use all the records that are available to them. Rather, they select only those records they deem most significant. 45_________.

　　Historians are able to select and create evidence by using some theory of human motivations and behavior.

　　From this experience a number of conclusions seem obvious: the study of history is the study of facts about the past; the more facts you know, the better you are as a student of history.

　　Similarly a third group of historians might maintain that the various items on the list should not be given equal weight, that one of the reasons listed, say, bankers loans, was most important.