第二部分 第2课时 记叙文-【直击双1流】2023版高考英语真题分类全刷

4. Where is the passage most probably taken from? A. A webpage. B. A newspaper. C. A novel. D. A report. 􀪋 􀪋 􀪋 􀪋 􀪋 􀪋 第 2 课时　 记叙文 Passage 1 ( 2022·全国卷乙, 24—27, 8 分, ★★) 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 one-room 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 hair-raising section concerns the building of the railroads, which entailed(牵涉) drilling through the Rockies, often in blinding snowstorms. The book ends with Ros