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学科网书城 品牌书店·知名教辅·正版资源 b.zxxk.com 您身边的互联网+教辅专家 层级②素养能力提升 1阅读理解 A (2022全国乙卷)nl9l6,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 Woodruffs 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 momning 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()drilling through the Rockies,often in blinding snowstorms.The book ends with Rosamond and Dorothy's retumn to Auburn. Wickenden is a very good storyteller.The sweep of the land and the stoicism()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. [语篇解读]本文是一篇书评。本文筒要介绍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 hist