GWD25-Q25 to 28

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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.

dreamDC

千古绝唱的一篇阅读。众说纷纭，考证繁多。真蛋疼。

医生吃鱼

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

我支持C。
A选项的错误在“contrast views on the cost-of-living issue”上，中文意思是比较生活成本问题的观点。作者如果说：社会党认为生活成本不高，而妇女认为生活成本很高，这才叫比较观点。
而文章通篇介绍的是两个群体不同的斗争方法（approaches to the resolution）：社会党人支持union，而妇女选择直接抗议。

E的错误很明显，就在于women's suffrage movement。文章一共三段，其中两段都没提到这个词。

ecogo

Have done it
3 out of 4 are wrong and still don't understand why(even i check it again and understand the whole passage)
But I find my answer is the same as what metion above AAEB
Q25, I think it will be A, brif = related short period . U can find answer on the passage. but in choice D have "coincide with",but the passage states that Socilism do it for purpose, not coincide with.
Q26.Choice C more narrow is strange, so A will be more right
Q27, after check it again , I still think E is what the passage what to talk.
I still insist on my original answer.

xdai555

晕啊 我都做了15套了 突然说 答案有错- - 。。。肿么一回事。。。~~~~ 尼玛

pansimply

我觉得原来dcce的答案没有错，就是选项很迷惑，有的需要一一排除
文章是说socialists和women在解决cost-of-living issue的观点不同，前者觉得boycut只是第一步，想进一步（union organization）推进socialism，后者只是想解决food cost issue。其实用主题就把25, 26, 28的正确项挑了出来。
下面说说我对27的看法。请大家指正。
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 （contrast views不对，其实socialist and women都是要解决cost-of-living issue的，这个问题上两者的意见没有分歧）
B.    To analyze the assumptions underlying opposing viewpoints within the New York socialist party of 1917 （是socialists vs women,不是党派内部矛盾）
C.    To provide a historical perspective on different approaches to the resolution of the cost-of-living issue. （正确，most socialists觉得union organizating从而socialism才是正解，而women是不带政治偏见的支持boycut）
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. (women suffrage只是二段尾来说明socialists阴险的长远打算中的一步，不是文章主旨)

-- by 会员 mindysu (2010/3/27 6:27:21)

你分析的有道理，但是historical perspective这个我没有从文章中看出来，所以直接把这个选项排除了。你能告诉我原文怎么体现了historical perspective吗？我认为原文的思路就是描述一个运动及其带来的后果——>社会党人对这个运动的看法——>普通的妇女们对这个运动看法。当然，第二段讲了社会党人是从长远来考虑这个运动的，他们有更深层次的阴谋。但是觉得和historical perspective不搭边啊。

yoyoooo

支持AAAB！！

wangshibo2010

个人观点，两个：
1. 25题应该是D  这些socialist做这些事儿是有政治动机的。
2. 27A应该不对，我是首先排除的A.

vivienzht

个人觉得27题A比C更恰当。

文章是讲了socialist和women各自的approach，前者是组织工会，后者是boycutt。妇女们的approach可以说是用来解决cost-live issue的。但socialist的approach可不是为了解决cost-live issue，这个文章中不都已经说了嘛。他们巴不得妇女们一直反抗，从反抗生活费上涨，到反抗要求选举权。应该说对socialist来说approach to resolution of closing socialism。

另外，25题，感觉A比D恰当。毕竟原文没有任何一句提到妇女们加入工会。尽管文章中有这么一句Union organizing, they argued, was the best method through which to combat the high cost of living.  但是这只是most socialists的一厢情愿，他们想让妇女们加入工会，但事实上妇女们到底有没有加入工会，文章还是没说啊。而A选项确实可以定位回原文brief commitment那句话。