原题
Quantitative analysis of vast historical data sets and other tools of abstraction allow historians to examine broad phenomena, but such methods ______ the particularity of individual actors. By focusing on singular individuals and incidents in exhaustive detail, Paul Seaver's Wallington's World and other microhistories aim to show how broader phenomena were experienced at a human level.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Amisconstrue
Befface
Cpreempt
Daccentuate
正确答案：B
解题思路
题干句子先肯定量化分析能考察宏观现象，再用 but 转折指出这类方法会抹去个体行动者的特殊性；后文以微史学聚焦个体来显示宏观现象的人类体验，故选 efface。
选项分析
A 选项
misconstrue 意为“误解”。文中并未说量化方法误解了个体的特殊性，而是说它们无法保留、会抹去这种特殊性，因此不成立。
B 选项
efface 意为“抹去、消除”。转折词 but 表明量化方法与“聚焦个体特殊性”相反；后文微史学正是要恢复被宏观方法忽略的个体经验，所以“抹去个体特殊性”最符合逻辑。
C 选项
preempt 意为“先发制人、预先阻止”。上下文没有提到量化方法预先阻止个体特殊性出现，语义不通。
D 选项
accentuate 意为“强调、突出”。如果量化方法突出个体特殊性，就与 but 转折及后文微史学“聚焦个体”的努力相矛盾，因此不选。