下面我们看一个例子：
In the early 1950’s, historians who studied pre-industrial Europe (which we may define here as Europe in the period from roughly 1300 to 1800) began, for the first time in large numbers, to investigate more of the pre-industrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent who comprised the political and social elite: the kings, generals, judges, nobles, bishops, and local magnates who had hitherto usually filled history books. ……
One way out of this dilemma was to run to the records of legal courts, for here the voices of the non-elite can most often be heard, as witnesses, plaintiffs, and defendants. These documents have acted as “a point of entry into the mental world of the poor.” Historians such as Le Roy Ladurie have used the documents to extract case histories, which have illuminated the attitudes of different social group (these attitudes include, but are not confined to, attitudes toward crime and the law) and have revealed how the authorities administered justice. ……
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The author mentions Le Roy Ladurie (Line 30)in order to _____
(A) give an example of a historian who has made one kind of use of court records
(B) cite a historian who has based case histories on the birth, marriage, and death records of the non-elite
(C) identify the author of the quotation cited in the previous sentence
(D) gain authoritative support for the view that the case history approach is the most fruitful approach to court records
(E) point out the first historian to realize the value of court records in illuminating the beliefs and values of the non-elite
分析：
这道题就属于典型的写作用意型, 同时又给出了指定的行数。Le Roy Ladurie 出现在文章的第二段，题目中已经明确给出行数(Line 30), 这样，通过这个信息，我们可以迅速的回到原文找到相关信息。Le Roy Ladurie很明显是作者举的一个例子，但是举这个例子的作用是什么?这个问题就要结合这段的内容去分析，这段的开头说“One way out of this dilemma was to run to the records of legal courts”，根据这句话我们可以知道，Le Roy Ladurie的出现应该是研究法庭记录的一个例子。所以，这道题正确选项是A. 当然，选项如果写成 illustrate that these documents have acted as “a point of entry into the mental world of the poor” 也是可以的。
需要注意的是，像这类写作用意题，它的答案选项第一个主动词并不具有判别意义，不管是illustrate, 还是give an example, 还是verify，还是别的类似的词汇，都是平等同义词，不需要过多的关注。
