Monday-Saturday 10.00-17.45Sunday 12.00-17.45Last admission to the  exhibition: 17.15. There 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.

1. 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.

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

A. ?4. B.?8. C. ?12. D.?16.

3. 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】1. B 2. B 3. C

【解析】

【导语】这是一篇应用文。主要介绍了为纪念苏格兰最受欢迎的画家亨利·雷伯恩爵士进行的展览的相关情况。

【1题详解】

细节理解题。根据表格右上角Raeburn’s English Contemporaries部分“Thursday 30 Oct.  (10月30日星期四)”可知，在10月30日星期四可以去参加Raeburn’s English Contemporaries。故选B项。

【2题详解】

细节理解题。根据Admission部分“?4. Children under 12 years accompanied by an adult are  admitted  free.(4英镑。12岁以下儿童在一位成人陪同下免费入场。)”可知，一对夫妇应付4+4=8英镑，两个12岁以下的儿童在成人陪同下免费，即入场费为8英镑。故选B项。

【3题详解】

细节理解题。根据最后一段“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.(所有全日制教育的学生，高至并包括那些学士学位水平的学生，在有教师的组织团体中，均可享受每人2英镑的特别低入场费。)”可知，全日制学生在有教师的组织团体中，可以获得折扣，即他们必须由教师带领。故选C项。

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.”

4. 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.

D.To do sightseeing.

5. What can we learn about the girls from paragraph 3?

A. They enjoyed much respect. B.They had a room with a bathtub.

C.They lived with the local kids. D.They suffered severe hardships.

6. Which part of Wickenden’s writing is hair-raising?

A. The extreme climate of Auburn.

B.The living conditions in Elkhead.

C. The railroad building in the Rockies.

D. The natural beauty of the West.

7. What is the text?