【正文】 xes costs Springfield approximately five million dollars annually.C. A telephone call can provide the fire department with more information about the nature and size of a fire than can an alarm placed from an alarm box.D. Responding to false alarms significantly reduces the fire department’s capacity for responding to fires.E. On any given day, a significant percentage of the public telephones in Springfield are out of service.23. GWD18Q39The survival of a rare New Zealand species of mistletoe that produces spectacular sprays of scarlet flowers is threatened both because their leaves are extremely tasty to a voracious opossum species and also because their flowers are pollinated by two species of birds whose populations are in decline.A. is threatened both because their leaves are extremely tasty to a voracious opossum species and also because theirB. is threatened both because its leaves are extremely tasty to a voracious opossum species and because itsC. is threatened both because its leaves are extremely tasty to a voracious opossum species and also itsD. are threatened both because its leaves are extremely tasty to a voracious opossum species and itsE. are threatened both because their leaves are extremely tasty to a voracious opossum species and because their24. GWD25Q24Although improved efficiency in converting harvested trees into wood products may reduce harvest rates, it will stimulate demand by increasing supply and lowering prices, thereby boosting consumption.A. in converting harvested trees into wood products may reduce harvest rates, it will stimulate demand by increasing supply and lowering prices, thereby boostingB. in converting harvested trees into wood products may reduce harvest rates, demand will be stimulated because of increasing supply and lowering prices, which boostC. of converting harvested trees into wood products may reduce harvest rates, it will stimulate demand by increasing supply and lowering prices, which boostsD. of harvested trees being converted into wood products may reduce harvest rates, it will stimulate demand, because it will increase supply and lower prices, thereby boostingE. when harvested trees are converted into wood products may reduce harvest rates, demand will be stimulated because of increasing supply and lowering prices, which boostGWD25Q25 to 28 In midFebruary 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 costofliving protests designed to direct the women’s movement toward Socialist goals. Underneath the Socialists’ brief mitment to costofliving 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 costofliving movement into alternative channels of protest. Union organizing, they argued, was the best method through which to bat the high cost of living. For others, costofliving 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 costofliving 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 mitment to the costofliving 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.Q25The author suggests which of the following about the New York Socialists’ mitment to the costofliving movement?A. It lasted for a relatively short period of time.B. It was stronger than their mitment to the suffrage struggle.C. It predated the costofliving 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.Q26It can be inferred from the passage that the goal of the boycotting women was theA. achievement of an immediate economic outeB. development of a more socialistic societyC. concentration of widespread consumer protests on the more narrow issue of food pricesD. development of one among a number of different approaches that the women wished to employ in bating the high cost of living.E. attraction of more public interest to issues that the women and the New York socialists considered important.