请教GWD-TN-16的一篇阅读

bjxiaobei

请教GWD-TN-16的一篇阅读 (socialist party利用妇女达到自己的目的) 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.

这篇文章我有两个问题的答案有疑问


•Q25•The author suggests which of the following about the New York Socialists’ commitment to the cost-of-living movement?

It lasted for a relatively short period of time.
It was stronger than their commitment to the suffrage struggle.
It predated the cost-of-living protests that erupted in 1917.
It coincided with their attempts to bring more women into union organizing.
It explained the popularity of the socialist party in New York City.


Underneath the Socialists’ brief commitment to cost-of-living organizing lay a basic indifference to the issue itself.
我从这一句选了A。brief在longman里的第一个解释就是 a short time
答案是D，哪里有体现their attempts to bring more women into union organizing？

还有下面这一题：
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 oppos-
ing 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.

为什么不是E？似乎没看到有different
approaches to the resolution of the cost-of-

living issue.

望NN赐教～～谢谢



望NN赐教～～谢谢

另外TN16里还有一篇阅读，就是企业合并有什么动机那一篇，有一题是这样的
Q12: It can inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about corporate acquisitions?


A .Their known benefits to national economies explain their appeal to individual firms during the 1970’s and 1980’s.
B .Despite their adverse impact on some firms, they are the best way to channel resources from less to more productive sectors of a nation’s economy.
C .They are as likely to occur because of poor monitoring by boards of directors as to be caused by incentive compensation for managers.
D .They will be less prevalent in the future, since their actual effects will gain wider recognition.
E .Factors other than economic benefit to the acquiring firm help to explain the frequency with which they occur.

[size=undefined]•对应的原文是：It seems that factors having little to do with corporate economic interests explain acquisitions. These factors may include the incentive compensation of executives, lack of monitoring by boards of directors, and managerial error in estimating the value of firms targeted for acquisition.

答案是E ，为什么不选C？
E里面economic benefit 的范围不是大于原文中 corporate economic interests的范围吗？？
•34. Q12: It can inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about corporate acquisitions?

monsterld

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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.

这篇文章我有两个问题的答案有疑问


•Q25•The author suggests which of the following about the New York Socialists’ commitment to the cost-of-living movement?




It lasted for a relatively short period of time.
It was stronger than their commitment to the suffrage struggle.
It predated the cost-of-living protests that erupted in 1917.
It coincided with their attempts to bring more women into union organizing.
It explained the popularity of the socialist party in New York City.


Underneath the Socialists’ brief commitment to cost-of-living organizing lay a basic indifference to the issue itself.
我从这一句选了A。brief在longman里的第一个解释就是 a short time
答案是D，哪里有体现their attempts to bring more women into union organizing？
这里的brief我认为是简单的意思，社会党并不是真的承诺cost-of-living，他们正在的目的是利用这次抗议行动来拉拢women.Underneath the Socialists’ brief commitment to cost-of-living organizing lay a basic indifference to the issue itself. 所以，社会党对支持women只是敷衍的说服而已。体现他们目的的一个很关键的是seized the opportitunty to ....
还有下面这一题：
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 oppos-
ing 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.

为什么不是E？似乎没看到有different
approaches to the resolution of the cost-of-

living issue.

总体来说是反映改革的不同群体的目的。并不是单一分析社会党利用movement 的动机。

bjxiaobei

To provide a historical perspective on different

approaches to the resolution of the cost-of-

living issue.
这句话的意思是说“解决cost-of-living issue的不同方法”吗？
方法和目的不是一回事吧～～

TopTerminator

刚刚做了这个题，首先：这里的brief我认为是简单的意思，社会党并不是真的承诺cost-of-living，他们正在的目的是利用这次抗议行动来拉拢women.Underneath the Socialists’ brief commitment to cost-of-living organizing lay a basic indifference to the issue itself. 所以，社会党对支持women只是敷衍的说服而已。正如楼主所讲，因为是肤浅的意思，所以肤浅是主要要表达的意思，推出时间短未免过于迁强

另外27题我也错了，同问一下

victoria_cc

27不选E是因为不仅仅说了那些socialist的观点，还分析了直接参与者（那些妇女的观点）所以E说得不全，我错选了B。。。现在觉得B里说的opposing views不对。 C说从历史观点角度分析了各种方式。

bobdog179

主旨题应该选择A吧？

第2段将socialist party 的观点，第三段将boycotter的观点？

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。

xinxiangwei

同问27题！！！我也选的A   同LS.为什么A不对，而C对呢？毛看到有different approaches to the resolution of the cost-of-living issue.

francoiswang

同问27，
E.    To analyze the motivations behind the socialist party’s involvement in the women’s suffrage movement.
为什么不对呢。
文章只是对movement的分析吧，哪有resolution阿~~~
求解答！

LeannaChina

我也认为C选项错误.但E选项也不合适,因为这篇文章主旨与women's suffrage movement没有直接联系,而是主要探讨cost-of-living protest

gonghao

只有A应该是正确的吧