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missilezy

看到这里，觉得答案是什么真的不重要了，我们在争论中得到了提高。开始做下一篇...

afflare

以下是引用YY_lalala在2007-4-12 14:14:00的发言：

mine: a a a b

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 commitment 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 organizing at their own workplace, as workers whose occupation was shopping and preparing food for their families.

25 －－黄色标出部分
The author suggests which of the following about the New York Socialists’ commitment to the cost-of-living movement?   A
A. It lasted for a relatively short period of time.   --与brief commitment对应
D.  It coincided with their attempts to bring more Women into union organizing.
        coincide的意思是：to happen at the same time as something else, especially by chance
        Socialists是有意图要这么干的，用coincide不合适。另外Sociaist goals 不能简单的和 bring more women into union organization 划等号，文章没有这方面清晰的表述

26 －－蓝色标出部分：A
   引起public注意是结果，不是目的。目的要降价，就是economic outcome

Q27
Which of the following best states the function of the passage as a whole? A
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
    虽然A不是完美的答案，contrast the view的说法值得商榷。但是文章第一段讲事件，第二段讲Socialists，第三段讲boycotters，A整体上而言还行。
C. To provide a historical perspective on different approaches to the resolution of the cost-of-living issue.
    a historical perspective，谁的？作者的？我不觉得文章有比较明显的表明作者的立场。另外approach to resolution的说法也不对，文章没有涉及如何resolute the cost-of-living is

totally agree with you.

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GWD-25-25-28

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（多种选择） of protest. 第一种选择Union organizing, they argued, was the best method through which to combat the high cost of living.其它选择 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.

 

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Q25

The author suggests which of the following about
            the 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 the
            suffrage struggle.

C.      It predated the cost-of-living protests that
            erupted in 1917.

D.      It coincided with their attempts to bring more
            women into union organizing.（看第一种选择）
                

E.       It explained the popularity of the socialist
            party in New York City.

 

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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 仅是物价本身
                

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.

 

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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 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.

此题不大懂。

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Q28.

According to the passage,
        most New York socialists believed which of the following about
        the cost-of-living movement?
            

A.      It was primarily a way to interest women
        in joining the socialist party.

B.       It was an expedient that was useful only
        insofar as it furthered other goals.

C.      It would indirectly result in an increase in
        the number of women who belonged to labor unions.

D.      It required a long-term commitment but
        inevitably represented a direct step
        toward socialism.

E.       It served as an effective complement to
        union organizing.

 大多数社会主义者有多种选择，但是都不是直接的社会主义目标，而是一些权宜之计，需要进一步其它条件的配合逐步实现社会主义。

 

mych666666

这篇文章读起来不难，做题时就难了。

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