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Q25 to 28

    

   In mid-February 1917 a

    

women’s movement
independent

    

of political
affiliation erupted in

    

Line New York City, the
stronghold of

    

(5) the Socialist party in the United

    

   states.
Protesting against the high

    

   cost of
living, thousands of women

    

   refused to
buy chickens, fish, and

    

   vegetables.
The boycott shut.

    

(10) down much of the City’s foodstuffs

    

    marketing
for two weeks, riveting

    

    public
attention on the issue of

    

    food prices,
which had increased

    

    partly as a
result of increased

    

(15) exports of food to Europe
that had

    

    been
occurring since the outbreak

    

of the First World War.

    

   
By early 1917 the Socialist

    

party had established itself as a

    

(20) major political presence in New

    

York
                City. New
  York Socialists,

    

whose customary spheres of

    

    struggle
were electoral work and

    

    trade union
organizing, seized the

    

(25) opportunity and quickly organized

    

an extensive series of cost-of-

    

living protests designed to direct

    

the women’s movement toward

    

Socialist goals. Underneath the

    

(30) Socialists’ brief commitment to

    

cost-of-living organizing lay a

    

basic indifference to the issue

    

itself. While some Socialists did

    

view price protests as a direct

    

(35) step toward socialism, most

    

Socialists ultimately sought to

    

divert 
the cost-of-living movement

    

into alternative channels of protest.

    

Union organizing, they argued,

    

(40) was the best method through which

    

to combat the high cost of living.

    

For others, cost-of-living or oganiz-

    

ing was valuable insofar as it led

    

women into the struggle for suf-

    

(45) frage, and similarly, the suffrage

    

struggle was valuable insofar as

    

it moved United States society

    

one step closer to socialism.

    

   
Although New York’s
Social-

    

(50) ists saw the cost-of-living issue

    

as, at best ,secondary or tertiary

    

to the real task at hand, the boy-

    

cotters, by sharp contrast, joined

    

the price protest movement out of

    

(55) an urgent and deeply felt commit-

    

ment to the cost-of-living issue.

    

A shared experience of swiftly

    

declining living standards caused

    

by rising food prices drove these

    

(60) women to protest. Consumer

    

    organizing
spoke directly to their

    

daily lives and concerns; they

    

saw cheaper food as a valuable

    

end in itself. Food price protests

    

(65) were these women’s way of orga-

    

nizing at their own workplace, as

    

workers whose occupation was

    

shopping and preparing food for

    

their families.

    

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Q25

    

The author suggests which of the following about

    

the New York Socialists’ commitment to the cost-

    

of-living movement?

    

A.     It
lasted for a relatively short period of time.

    

B.    
It was
stronger than their commitment to the

    

Suffrage struggle.

    

C.  It predated
the cost-of-living protests that

    

Erupted in 1917.

    

D.  It coincided
with their attempts to bring more

    

Women into union organizing.

    

E.  It explained
the popularity of the Socialist

    

party in New York City.

                  could sb. tell me why not D???

allen0018

天，那说说A 怎么定位的


        New
  York Socialists,
    

whose customary spheres of

    

    struggle
were electoral work and

    

    trade union
organizing, seized the

    

(25) opportunity and                                                     quickly organized

    

an extensive series of cost-of-

    

living protests designed to direct

    

the women’s movement toward

    

Socialist goals  

不是这里吧？ 这是快速的组织啊，不是运动的延续