GWD25-Q25 to 28

GWD25-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.

Q26

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.

                             Answer:C

爲什麽A不可以呢？原文“Consumer

    organizing spoke directly to their

daily lives and concerns; they

saw cheaper food as a valuable

end in itself.”

    organizing spoke directly to their

daily lives and concerns; they

saw cheaper food as a valuable

end in itself.”

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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 oppos-

   ing 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.

                                                  the answer is C

我覺得c不妥儅啊 socialist在文中顯然不是以解決cost of living為目標的，而是以推動其“主義”進程為目標。既然這樣，比較婦女與socialist在生活費用解決上approach不是很無稽麽？

A爲什麽不行呢？

有种版本的答案是AAAB,我这篇做得也很郁闷,我前几天发贴问,至今没人理睬

就我个人而言,我同意MM意见

MM有空能不能给我解释下28为什么选B叻,我怎么选E呢?依据是:

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.

我觉得B的goals用复数不对呀,从这句可以看出就是一种补充啊

我也糊涂了。

但是我觉得E中的effective用的不准确，你引用的文中只是鄙视了一下cost-of-living运动的作用，即便它是一种补充，也无从而知是否有效。

另外，下文当中：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.

好像同B比较切合了。但是问题是，这个for others如果是指other socialist（非most socialist）的话，选B就更不对了。。。

于是我头晕了

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.

而那个FOR OTHERS 应该和MOST 前面的对应

While some Socialists did
   

view price protests as a direct

(35) step toward socialism,

view price protests as a direct

(35) step toward socialism,

哪里看到的AAAB,那样的话我就高兴了,本来错2,现在错1了.

28题我的依据是第21行
        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.

并且Socialists的态度是indifference,所以他们对cost-of-living的态度是大负(小正). E中的effective是大正态度,排除.

这题我在B和C之间犹豫, 文中第24行确实题到了trade union organizing 是Socialists的goal之一, 而C的意思似乎是labor union organzing, 心想trade union和labor union大概不一样,所以选了B.

这个我还是理解到的哈,不过就是为什么支持他们选举的渠道不能说成是E,一种有效的补充~

E.    It served as an effective complement to

union organizing.只是觉得union organiztion是最好的方式来抗议high cost living,但是没有说要保留原来的cost-of-living movement方式作为补充

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.

, they argued,

(40) was the best method through which

to combat the high cost of living.