新GRE阅读写作中难句解析09

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Historians such as Le Roy Ladurie　have used the documents to extract case　histories， which have illuminated the attitudes of different social groups (these attitudes include，but are not　　confined to，attitudes toward crime and　the law)and have revealed how the authorities administered justice.  
　　难句类型：复杂修饰、插入语
　　译文：象勒罗伊。拉迪里(Le Roy Ladurie)一类的史学家利用这些文献史料从中挖掘出某些个案史(case history)来，阐明了不同社会群体的态度(这些态度包括，但并非局限于，对犯罪和法律的态度)，并揭示出当局是如何执行审判的。
　　解释：逗号以后的内容都是修饰逗号以前的case history的。在which引导的非限定性定语从句中有一个插入语(these attitudees includee， but are not confined to， attitudees toward crime and the law)，我们可以看到这个插入语中又套了一个插入语but not confined to.
. Y% y1 j0 q5 m* R' X　　意群训练：Historians such as Le Roy Ladurie　have used the documents to extract case　histories， which have illuminated the attitudes of different social groups (these attitudes include，but are not　　confined to，attitudes toward crime and　the law)and have revealed how the authorities administered justice.
　　2. It can be inferred from the passage that a historian who wished to compare crime rates per thousand in a European city in one decade of the fifteenth century with crime rates in another decade of that century would probably be most aided by better information about which of the following?