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abby666666

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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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连逻辑结构都没看出来。。。帮忙分析下结果和题目吧。。

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homefu

这上面是正确答案吗？

homefu

还是觉得28题选E:
我的依据是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
这既然不是一道infer题，那么在文章中肯定有出现，定位，而believe和argue对应，因此答案和believe后面句有关，选E
A:primarily未提及
B:不是most的观点
C:为提及
D:long-term看到就否了他
E:correct


个人观点，大家帮忙一起看看啊

homefu

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abby666666

加粗的是答案~大家帮忙。。。

crystalhong

我的理解：
第一段说从1917年开始妇女运动开始和政治目的分离了，在NY发生的一次妇女抵制物价提高的运动，最后引起了市场关闭两周，引起了大众的注意
第二段就是详述这个事件；说某组织原本是想借这个事件达到自己的政治目的，扩大女性选举权，最后达到socialism，通过Union organizing的方式
第三段就是说其实这个组织的目的没达成，参加这些抵制活动的妇女最终目的就是要降低价格，因为高价剥夺了她们的权力，她们主要的目的就是照顾这个家庭etc..

Q25 看第二段：Union organizing, they argued, was the best method through which to combat the high cost of living

Q26 看第三段：A shared experience of swiftly declining living standards caused by rising food prices drove these women to protest

Q27 考对全文的理解了，开始看觉得A和C都挺有道理...后来觉得可能A的view不是很妥当

Q28 看第二段 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.

hope it helps...

abby666666

我的理解：
第一段说从1917年开始妇女运动开始和政治目的分离了，在NY发生的一次妇女抵制物价提高的运动，最后引起了市场关闭两周，引起了大众的注意
第二段就是详述这个事件；说某组织原本是想借这个事件达到自己的政治目的，扩大女性选举权，最后达到socialism，通过Union organizing的方式
第三段就是说其实这个组织的目的没达成，参加这些抵制活动的妇女最终目的就是要降低价格，因为高价剥夺了她们的权力，她们主要的目的就是照顾这个家庭etc..

Q25 看第二段：Union organizing, they argued, was the best method through which to combat the high cost of living

Q26 看第三段：A shared experience of swiftly declining living standards caused by rising food prices drove these women to protest

Q27 考对全文的理解了，开始看觉得A和C都挺有道理...后来觉得可能A的view不是很妥当

Q28 看第二段 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.

hope it helps...

-- by 会员 crystalhong (2010/2/2 19:55:15)

恩~明白多了~但对27题还是不太理解。。能详细解释下27嘛？

homefu

还是不太懂28道，麻烦NN把28道解释下吧，B正确在哪里？

crystalhong

Q28 B的意思是：cost-of-living movement只是一个权宜之计，这个movement有用只是因为它促进了该组织达到其它目标..正如第二段说的：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

E不对，因为它说cost-of-living movement是union organizing的有效补充，原文说的是union organizing是打击high cost of living的有效手段。

Q27 我用排除法了..
A 不是contrast view，是说他们进行这个活动的目的
BD觉得完全不对，文中没有提到
E说in the women’s suffrage movement，这个movement是cost-of-living movement,而且文中的主旨也不是在说动机..
C正确..可能这是作者的一个perspective, 关于对这个历史movement参与者不同目的的解读...比较难解释清，意会吧...

觉得阅读有些题排除法还是比较好用的...直接选正确答案比较难....

青色石头

第二段谈的是对Socialist party妇女这次抵制实际是为了达到更大的目标，而他们本身对此是indifferent的，看第三句就很明白了。

第三段谈的是从另一个角度来看这个问题：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。。。

所以选C，个人意见