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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.
这篇文章我有两个问题的答案有疑问
?Q25?The author suggests which of the following about the New York Socialists’ commitment to the cost-of-living movement?
It lasted for a relatively short period of time.
It was stronger than their commitment to the suffrage struggle.
It predated the cost-of-living protests that erupted in 1917.
It coincided with their attempts to bring more women into union organizing.
It explained the popularity of the socialist party in New York City.
Underneath the Socialists’ brief commitment to cost-of-living organizing lay a basic indifference to the issue itself.
我从这一句选了A。brief在longman里的第一个解释就是 a short time
答案是D，哪里有体现their attempts to bring more women into union organizing？
还有下面这一题：
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.
为什么不是E？似乎没看到有different
approaches to the resolution of the cost-of-
living issue.
望NN赐教～～谢谢
望NN赐教～～谢谢
另外TN16里还有一篇阅读，就是企业合并有什么动机那一篇，有一题是这样的
Q12: It can inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about corporate acquisitions?
A .Their known benefits to national economies explain their appeal to individual firms during the 1970’s and 1980’s.
B .Despite their adverse impact on some firms, they are the best way to channel resources from less to more productive sectors of a nation’s economy.
C .They are as likely to occur because of poor monitoring by boards of directors as to be caused by incentive compensation for managers.
D .They will be less prevalent in the future, since their actual effects will gain wider recognition.
E .Factors other than economic benefit to the acquiring firm help to explain the frequency with which they occur.
?对应的原文是：It seems that factors having little to do with corporate economic interests explain acquisitions. These factors may include the incentive compensation of executives, lack of monitoring by boards of directors, and managerial error in estimating the value of firms targeted for acquisition.
答案是E ，为什么不选C？
E里面economic benefit 的范围不是大于原文中 corporate economic interests的范围吗？？
?34. Q12: It can inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about corporate acquisitions?
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