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.
’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.
Q25
The author suggests which of the following aboutthe 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 thesuffrage struggle.
C.It predated the cost-of-living protests thaterupted in 1917.
D.It coincided with their attempts to bring morewomen into union organizing.（哪里有说bing more women?）
E.It explained the popularity of the socialistparty in New York City.
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Q26
It can be inferred from the passage that the goalof the boycotting women was the
A.achievement of an immediate economicoutcome
B.development of a more socialistic society
C.concentration of widespread consumerprotests on the more narrow issue of food prices(其实连这个选项都没读懂，都不要说定位了...=.=要疯掉了）
D.development of one among a number of different approaches that the womenwished to employ in combating the highcost of living.
E.attraction of more public interest to issuesthat the women and the New York socialistsconsidered important.
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Q27
Which of the following best states the function of thepassage as a whole?
A.To contrast the views held by the Socialist partyand by the boycotting women ofNew York Cityon the cost-of-living issue
B.To analyze the assumptions underlying opposing viewpoints within the New Yorksocialistparty of 1917
C.To provide a historical perspective on differentapproaches to the resolution of the cost-of-living issue.(哪里来的different approaches，不是一直围绕boycutt一个行为吗？）
D.To chronicle the sequence of events that ledto the New York Socialist party’s emergenceas a political power
E.To analyze the motivations behind the socialistparty’s involvement in the women’s suffragemovement.
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Q28.
According to the passage,most New York socialists believed which of the following aboutthe cost-of-living movement?
A.It was primarily a way to interest womenin joining the socialist party.
B.It was an expedient that was useful onlyinsofar as it furthered other goals.(如何定位是 only insofar as it furthered other goals 才是useful呢？）
C.It would indirectly result in an increase inthe number of women who belonged to labor unions.
D.It required a long-term commitment butinevitably represented a direct steptoward socialism.
E.It served as an effective complement tounion organizing.
这篇文章读起来貌似都懂了，做起题来感觉什么都不懂啊，每个问题都不知道该去哪里定位，感觉主要是题目和选项难!
答案是DCCB
在论坛上也找了很久，但都没有比较详细的文章分析，所以跪求NN来帮我分析一下这篇文章，尤其是怎么推断这些答案的呀，实在太纠结了俺
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