Unit1 Section Ⅰ Starting out & Understanding ideas（作业）-2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第四册【精讲精练】外研版

[限时检测] (限时30分钟) Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2022·全国乙卷)In 1916，two girls of wealthy families，best friends from Auburn，N.Y.—Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood—traveled to a settlement in the Rocky Mountains to teach in a one­room schoolhouse.The girls had gone to Smith College.They wore expensive clothes.So for them to move to Elkhead，Colo.to instruct the children whose shoes were held together with string was a surprise.Their stay in Elkhead is the subject of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden，who is a magazine editor and Dorothy Woodruff's granddaughter. Why did they go then? Well，they wanted to do something useful.Soon，however，they realized what they had undertaken. They moved in with a local family，the Harrisons，and，like them，had little privacy，rare baths，and a blanket of snow on their quilt when they woke up in the morning.Some mornings，Rosamond and Dorothy would arrive at the schoolhouse to find the children weeping from the cold.In spring，the snow was replaced by mud over ice. In Wickenden's book，she expanded on the history of the West and also on feminism，which of course influenced the girls' decision to go to Elkhead.A hair­raising section concerns the building of the railroads，which entailed (牵涉) drilling through the Rockies，often in blinding snowstorms.The book ends with Rosamond and Dorothy's return to Auburn. Wickenden is a very good storyteller.The sweep of the land and the stoicism (坚忍) of the people move her to some beautiful writing.Here is a picture of Dorothy Woodruff，on her horse，looking down from a hill top: “When the sun slipped behind the mountains，it shed a rosy glow all around them.Then a full moon rose.The snow was marked only by small animals: foxes，coyotes，mice，and varying hares，which turned white in the winter.” 【解题导语】　这是一篇书评。本文简要介绍了Dorothy Wickenden的书籍并对其进行了评价。 1．Why did Dorothy and Rosamond go to the Rocky Mountains? A．To teach in a school. B．To study American history. C．To write a book.