[求助，求讨论] GWD25-Q26和27，以前的讨论贴都没能说服我~

priscillalxl

GWD-25-Q25-Q28
  In mid-February 1917 a        

women’s movement independent  

of political affiliation erupted in

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 commit-

ment 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 orga-

nizing at their own workplace, as

workers whose occupation was

shopping and preparing food for

their families.

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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.


正确答案是C，我选A。
我知道A有过于general的问题，但A没有什么实质错误啊~
内在的逻辑：
食品价格上涨-生活水平迅速下降-妇女抗议，抗议的焦点在于食品价格。they saw cheaper food as a valuable end in itself.
而把C这个选项轻轻paraphrase一下，就变成the boycotting women intended to concentrate the widespread consumer protests on the more narrow issue of food prices了，就好像妇女们对这些抗议活动的走向有自己的规划和设计似的，而纵观全文，妇女们只是单纯滴想通过抗议来降低物价，特别是食品的价格。

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.

正确答案是C，我选A

这个题，首先肯定C这句话本身没什么问题。socialists和妇女两方的确对如何解决cost-of-living issue提出了不同的approach。妇女们认为就是要protest，而一部分socialists认为Union organizing, they argued,  was the best method through which to combat the high cost of living.但通过第二自然段一整段可以知道，socialists总体上来说并没有以解决物价问题为其目的啊~Socialists’ brief commitment to cost-of-living organizing lay a basic indifference to the issue itself. 而且明显第二段说的是socialists想利用这个事达到吸引更多的人toward socialist goals。所以C固然没错，但很片面，不合题干啊~~~
望指教！

priscillalxl

自己顶顶~
超级郁闷，这套题错了10个，其中5个都是争议题啊~~~

ssxxtt27

顶~26和LZ思路一样 求解答！

ssxxtt27

27C我的理解
文章讨论的是对于如何解决物价上涨这一问题，社会党和妇女采取了什么方法和态度观点
妇女想要利用protest来解决问题，而社会党虽然表面也采用protest但实际另有目的。这讲的都是对问题的resolution的看法
A中
对比views on the cost-of-living issue 说对比妇女和社会党对于物价上涨问题的观点。观点针对的只是现象（文章并没有对物价上涨发表评论。。。影响社会和谐之类的。。。），而文章讲述的是关于现象的解决措施
所以选C

ssxxtt27

自己顶顶~
超级郁闷，这套题错了10个，其中5个都是争议题啊~~~

-- by 会员 priscillalxl (2011/9/2 13:05:52)

我这篇错了15个哎。。。绝望。。。

priscillalxl

27C我的理解
文章讨论的是对于如何解决物价上涨这一问题，社会党和妇女采取了什么方法和态度观点
妇女想要利用protest来解决问题，而社会党虽然表面也采用protest但实际另有目的。这讲的都是对问题的resolution的看法
A中
对比views on the cost-of-living issue 说对比妇女和社会党对于物价上涨问题的观点。观点针对的只是现象（文章并没有对物价上涨发表评论。。。影响社会和谐之类的。。。），而文章讲述的是关于现象的解决措施
所以选C

-- by 会员 ssxxtt27 (2011/9/5 1:13:29)

可是我觉得socialists掺和进来其实根本就没想解决物价问题，就是心怀鬼胎，想利用这个事情壮大自己的力量唉~
好吧我心理比较阴暗一些~~~

王Alcal1011

我也是26,27错了，lz还记得后来怎么解决的么？
我这套错了11个，lz后来考得怎样？

27C我的理解
文章讨论的是对于如何解决物价上涨这一问题，社会党和妇女采取了什么方法和态度观点
妇女想要利用protest来解决问题，而社会党虽然表面也采用protest但实际另有目的。这讲的都是对问题的resolution的看法
A中
对比views on the cost-of-living issue 说对比妇女和社会党对于物价上涨问题的观点。观点针对的只是现象（文章并没有对物价上涨发表评论。。。影响社会和谐之类的。。。），而文章讲述的是关于现象的解决措施
所以选C

-- by 会员 ssxxtt27 (2011/9/5 1:13:29)

可是我觉得socialists掺和进来其实根本就没想解决物价问题，就是心怀鬼胎，想利用这个事情壮大自己的力量唉~
好吧我心理比较阴暗一些~~~

-- by 会员 priscillalxl (2011/9/5 17:04:01)