It can be inferred from the passage that the goal of the boycotting women was the
A. achievement of an immediate economic outcome B. development of a more socialistic society C. concentration of widespread consumer protests on the more narrow issue of food prices D. development of one among a number of different approaches that the women wished to employ in combating the high cost of living. E. attraction of more public interest to issues that the women and the New York socialists considered important.
正确答案是C,我选A。 我知道A有过于general的问题,但A没有什么实质错误啊~ 内在的逻辑: 食品价格上涨-生活水平迅速下降-妇女抗议,抗议的焦点在于食品价格。they saw cheaper food as a valuable end in itself. 而把C这个选项轻轻paraphrase一下,就变成the boycotting women intended to concentrate the widespread consumer protests on the more narrow issue of food prices了,就好像妇女们对这些抗议活动的走向有自己的规划和设计似的,而纵观全文,妇女们只是单纯滴想通过抗议来降低物价,特别是食品的价格。
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
E. To analyze the motivations behind the Socialist party’s involvement in the women’s suffrage movement.
正确答案是C,我选A
这个题,首先肯定C这句话本身没什么问题。socialists和妇女两方的确对如何解决cost-of-living issue提出了不同的approach。妇女们认为就是要protest,而一部分socialists认为Union organizing, they argued, was the best method through which to combat the high cost of living.但通过第二自然段一整段可以知道,socialists总体上来说并没有以解决物价问题为其目的啊~Socialists’ brief commitment to cost-of-living organizing lay a basic indifference to the issue itself. 而且明显第二段说的是socialists想利用这个事达到吸引更多的人toward socialist goals。所以C固然没错,但很片面,不合题干啊~~~ 望指教!