Thursday 13Nov.,13.10

MARTIN POSTLE

Exhibition Times

Monday-Saturday 10.00-17.45 Sunday 12.00-17.45

Last admission to the exhibition: 17.15. The is no re-admission.

Closed: 24-26 December and 1 January

Admission

?4. Children under 12 years accompanied by an adult are admitted free.

Schools and Colleges

A special low entrance charge of ?2 per person is available to all in  full-time education, up to and including those at first degree level, in  organised groups with teachers.

21. What is the right time for attending Raeburn’s English  Contemporaries?

A. Sun. 26 Oct.

B. Thurs.30 Oct.

C. Thurs. 6 Nov.

D. Thurs. 13 Nov.

22. How much would a couple with two children under 12 pay for  admission?

A. ?4.

B. ?8.

C. ?12.

D. ?16.

23. How can full-time students get group discounts?

A. They should go on Sunday mornings.

B. They should come from art schools.

C. They must be led by teachers.

D. They must have ID cards with them.

【答案】21~23 BBC

【解析】本文是一篇应用文，介绍了苏格兰画家画展的一些情况。

21.细节理解题。根据Lecture Series小标题下的内容“Raeburn’s English Contemporaries Thursday  30 Oct., 13.10”可知，答案为B。

22.细节理解题。根据Admission小标题下的内容“?4. Children under 12 years accompanied by an  adult are admitted  free.”可知，一个成年人带着一个12岁以下的孩子是免费的，而题目中是一对夫妇带着一个孩子，因此多出来的成人需要付?8，故选B。

23.细节理解题。根据文章最后一句话“A special low entrance charge of ?2 per person is  available to all in full-time education, up to and including those at first  degree level, in organised groups with teachers.”可知，如果老师组团带学生一起，可获得相应折扣，故选C。

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.”

24. 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.