GWD-25-Q27

connie4895

GWD25-Q25 to 28

     In mid-February 1917 a women’s movement independent of political affiliation erupted in New York City, the stronghold of 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 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 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 major political presence in New York City. New York Socialists, whose customary spheres of struggle were electoral work and trade union organizing, seized the opportunity and quickly organized an extensive series of cost-of-living protests designed to direct the women’s movement toward Socialist goals. Underneath the 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 step toward socialism, most Socialists ultimately sought to divert the cost-of-living movement into alternative channels of protest. Union organizing, they argued, was the best method through which to combat the high cost of living. For others, cost-of-living or organizing was valuable insofar as it led women into the struggle for suffrage, and similarly, the suffrage struggle was valuable insofar as it moved United States society one step closer to socialism.

Although New York’s Socialists saw the cost-of-living issue as, at best, secondary or tertiary to the real task at hand, the boycotters, by sharp contrast, joined the price protest movement out of an urgent and deeply felt commitment to the cost-of-living issue. A shared experience of swiftly declining living standards caused by rising food prices drove these 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 were these women’s way of organizing at their own workplace, as workers whose occupation was shopping and preparing food for their families.

GWD25-Q27

Which of the following best states the function of the
            passage as a whole?

A.    To contrast the views held by the Socialist party
            and by the boycotting women of
            New York City
            on the cost-of-living issue

B.     To analyze the assumptions underlying opposing viewpoints within the New York
            socialist
            party of 1917

C.     To provide a historical perspective on different
            approaches to the resolution of the cost-of-living issue.

D.    To chronicle the sequence of events that led
            to the New York Socialist party’s emergence
            as a political power

To analyze the motivations behind the socialist
            party’s involvement in the women’s suffrage
            movement.

KEY: C

MINE: A

A为啥不行呢?? 哪来的 historical perspective啊??

yvettezhang

我也选A

fighting127

选A 这一套好多错的答案

rucky521

up

cdinitialb

大牛们来给个解释啊！为什么是approach？文章是提了opproach,但这是main function吗？

遗失的紫水晶

ding,嗨这篇阅读怎么NN们都不来解释啊。。。。一定要顶上去！请NN回答！

songer_xj

选项A的views by boycotting women 好像文中没讲吧，好像通篇都在讲Socialists怎么怎么样吧。