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   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 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.

C.  To provide a historical perspective on different approaches to the

resolution of the cost-of-living issue.

家庭妇女的approach是通过protest，但是那些socialist的目的根本不在resolution of

the cost-of-living issue，所以也就谈不上different approach了

人家根本就没有想解决这个问题何谈 historical perspective on different

   approaches呢

这道题还有人有争议么？最好大家讨论一下，我也觉得答案怪怪的！没有觉得任意

一个选项可选！

我最初也选的A。觉得:

socialist : indifferent

women: protest against..

两种截然不同的态度。但是A说的是View。我就又犹豫了。

但是感觉C不好