Demonstrators rally at Los Angeles City Hall during the first Women’s March
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The Eureka group, which is not an official Women’s March chapter, said that instead of the planned Jan.19 march, it will focus on organizing an event for March 9, in conjunction with International Women’s Day.The move will allow more time to reach out to women of color and those who identify as gender nonconforming, organizers said in a Facebook post last week.”The local organizers are continuing to meet and discuss how to broaden representation in the organizing committee to create an event that represents and supports peoples who live here” in Humboldt County, an organizer said in the post.“Up to this point, the participants have been overwhelmingly white, lacking representation from several perspectives in our community.”
The decision made by a handful of women in the small town of Eureka which Census data show is 71% non-Hispanic white drew mixed reactions, both locally and across the country.Supporters were thrilled the group was taking steps toward increasing its diversity and inclusion.Others, however, said the move was a criticism of people of color for not joining in and that by postponing the march, organizers were placing the burden on participants to make the local women’s march appear less white.“I have deep concerns that people of color are being used as a crutch for the organizing committee failing to do the work it takes to encourage diversity,” Caterina Kein wrote on Facebook.“Please do not blame ‘us’ for your failures.”
The backlash prompted Women’s March Eureka to release a second statement on Monday noting the decision to cancel the event was based on the lack of diversity among the group’s leadership, not among the march’s attendees.In an interview with KHSU-FM radio, organizer Kelsey Reedy said the original organizers were all white women and that only two recent additions have increased the diversity of the small group.“It wasn’t just we felt there wasn’t enough representation.There literally was no representation,” she said.
The organizers acknowledged that past attempts at being inclusive have been shallow.“We could have done a lot more,” Reedy said.“We did not push ourselves to really create a space that was welcoming for everyone to be involved.We did reach out to several groups led by people of color, but only having a few people in the group that even had those connections means it was pretty limited.”
The larger Women’s March organization has faced other problems, including accusations of being anti-Semitic.Leaders of the national group came under fire last year after co-chair Tamika Mallory attended a February event with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan，in which he said，“The powerful Jews are my enemy.” Between March and November, the larger group issued three statements in response to criticism that Women’s March leaders are anti-Semitic and homophobic, but it has repeatedly expressed support for its leaders, including Mallory.“It’s become clear, amidst this media storm, that our values and our message have 一 too often been lost,” the national group said “That loss caused a lot of harm, and a lot of pain.We should have been faster and clearer in helping people understand our values and our commitment to fighting anti-Semitism.We regret that.”
单选题第1题What can we infer from Paragraph 1 ?（）。
A.The first Women’s March was successful.
B.Lots of people around the country participated in the march.
C.The march received new criticism.
D.The annual women’s march is planned to protest the inauguration of President Trump.
参考答案：C
答案解析：推断题。从第1段第4句prompted newfound criticism可知，当年的聚会游行又遭到了新的批评，故选C。
单选题第2题In Paragraph 1, we can infer from the underlined phrase “much more divisive than intended” that_______.
A.the first Women’s March intended to unite women but failed
B.the march was very decisive
C.the women gathered there were diverse
D.the march should be split from President Trump’s inauguration
参考答案：A
答案解析：推断题。根据上下文可推断妇女游行的初衷是为了让女性联合起来，但是却产生不和，故选A。
单选题第3题According to the passage, how to solve the problem that the committee was too white?（）。
A.To make the organizing committee more colorful.
B.To broaden the representatives in the planning committee.
C.To color the participants in the organization.
D.To involve colored women in the organizing committee.
参考答案：D
答案解析：推断题。第2段第2句reach out to women of color，即解决组委会都是白人的 办法是吸收有色人种的女性，故选D。
单选题第4题What does the underlined phrase “gender nonconforming” mean in Paragraph 2?（）。
A.Not being able to be recognized by the society.
B.Having difficulties to be in accord with one’s sex.
C.Not knowing one’s tenderness.
D.Not being able to make gender familiar to oneself.
参考答案：B
答案解析：语义题。gender nonconforming是指有些人对自己的性别认识不清，造成性 别错乱，找不到自己的性别属性，如男性女性化、女性男性化或雌雄同体等。故 选B。
单选题第5题Which of the following statements is NOT true?（）。
A.This year’s women’s march was postponed.
B.The local organizers wanted to contact some lesbians.
C.The topic of how to create a representative event is being discussed.
D.The representatives are from several perspectives of the community.
参考答案：D
答案解析：推断题。第2段最后一句lacking representation是说参与者大多是白人，缺乏来自社会多方面的代表。D选项的表述与此不合，故选D。
单选题第6题The word “crutch” underlined in Paragraph 3 is synonymous to______.
A.long stick
B.prop
C.help
D.crush
参考答案：B
答案解析：语义题。crutch的意思是“让人过分依赖的帮助或支持”，需注意crutch在文中有贬义。B意思与之相近，故选B。
单选题第7题Who does “us” refer to in the last sentence of Paragraph 3?（）。
A.The Eureka group.
B.The participants.
C.People of color.
D.The organizers.
参考答案：C
答案解析：推断题。第3段第4句people of color被当作工作无法顺利开展的理由， Caterina Kein抗议不应把组委会未能完成多元化的工作归咎于“我们”，故选C。
单选题第8题What we can learn from Paragraph 4?（）。
A.The reason to cancel the march was the lack of diversity among participants.
B.The organizers were all white women.
C.The diversity of the small group is wide.
D.The organizers admitted their group’s leadership was not representative at all.
参考答案：D
答案解析：推断题。第4段第34句表明组织者Kelsey Reedy承认原先的组委会全是白人，后来只增加了两位来自少数群体的代表，她自身都感觉领导团队的代表性不够，故选D。
单选题第9题What’s the organizers’ attitude towards their former efforts on being inclusive?（）。
A.Negative.
B.Positive.
C.Optimistic.
D.Indifferent.
参考答案：A
答案解析：推断题。第5段第1句的acknowledged … shallow表明了组织者的态度，承认之前为增加包容性所做的努力太肤浅了。
单选题第10题What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?（）。
A.Women’s March leaders had bad words towards Jews.
B.Women’s March have a strong dislike of homosexuals.
C.Women’s March has faced problems like anti-Semitism and homophobic.
D.The organization regretted to fight anti-Semitism.
参考答案：C
答案解析：主旨题。本文最后一段讨论了妇女游行面临的其他问题，如反犹太和恐 同的指控，故选C。
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