In mid-February 1917 a women’smovement 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 buychickens, fish, and vegetables. The boycott shut down much of the City’sfoodstuffs marketing for two weeks, riveting public attention on the issue offood prices, which had increased partly as a result of increased exports offood to Europe
that had been occurring sincethe outbreak of the First World War.By early1917 the Socialist party had established itself as a major political presencein New York City
.New York Socialists, whose customary spheres of struggle were electoral workand trade union organizing, seized the opportunity and quickly organized anextensive series of cost-of-living protests designed to direct the women’smovement toward Socialist goals. Underneath the Socialists’ brief commitment tocost-of-living organizing lay a basic indifference to the issue itself. Whilesome Socialists did view price protests as a direct step toward socialism, mostSocialists ultimately sought to divert the cost-of-living movement into alternativechannels of protest. Union organizing, they argued, was the best method throughwhich to combat the high cost of living. For others, cost-of-living or organizingwas valuable insofar as it led women into the struggle for suffrage, andsimilarly, the suffrage struggle was valuable insofar as it moved United Statessociety one step closer to socialism.Although New York’s Socialists saw the cost-of-livingissue 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 anddeeply felt commitment to the cost-of-living issue. A shared experience ofswiftly declining living standards caused by rising food prices drove these womento protest. Consumer organizing spoke directly to their daily lives andconcerns; they saw cheaper food as a valuable end in itself. Food priceprotests were these women’s way of organizing at their own workplace, as workerswhose occupation was shopping and preparing food for their families.
It can be inferred from the passagethat the goal of theboycotting 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 offood prices
D. development of one among a number ofdifferent 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.
答案选C，但是我始终觉得A更加直接。文章中已经明确讲出了，They saw cheaper food as a valuable end in itself。
翻了之前的讨论，只有几个人就A和C做过讨论，但还是没有结果，请NN们帮忙看一下，多谢啦！ | 
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