内容正文:
选修7 语言知识必备
高考真题展示及运用
主题语境:人与社会——文学 本册相关教材:Module 3
高考零距离 通过真题注解弄清高考如何考查
(2022·全国乙卷,阅读理解B)
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 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.”
语篇导读:本文是一篇书评。文章介绍了Dorothy Wickenden写的一部书的主要内容:两个富裕家庭长大的女孩子去落基山脉的一个村落当老师,她们住在当地人的家里,和他们一样过着艰辛的生活。本文鼓励同学们向故事中