Thursday30Oct.,13.10

JUDYEGERTON

Charactersand Characterisation in 

Raeburn'sPortraits

Thursday6Nov.,13.10

NICHOLASPHILLIPSON

Raeburnand Artist's Training in the 

18thCentury

Thursday13Nov.,13.10

MARTINPOSTLE

Exhibition Times

Monday-Saturday 10.00-17.45 Sunday 12.00-17.45

Last 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 f2 per person is available to all infull-time education, up to and including those at first degree level, inorganised groups with teachers.

21. What is the right time for attending Raeburn's EnglishContemporaries?

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 artschools.

C. They must be led by teachers. D. They must have ID cards with them.

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 RockyMountains to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. The girls had gone to SmithCollege. They wore expensive clothes. So for them to move to Elkhead, Colo. toinstruct the children whose shoes were held together with string was a surprise.Their stay in Elkhead is the subject of Nothing Daunted: The UnexpectedEducation of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden, who is amagazine 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 littleprivacy, rare baths, and a blanket of snow on their quilt when they woke up inthe morning. Some mornings, Rosamond and Dorothy would arrive at the schoolhouseto find the children weeping from the cold. In spring, the snow was replaced bymud over ice.

In Wickenden's book, she expanded on the history of the West and also onfeminism, which of course influenced the girls' decision to go to Elkhead. Ahair-raising section concerns the building of the railroads, whichentailed(牵涉)drilling through the Rockies, often in blinding snowstorms. The bookends with Rosamond and Dorothy's return to Auburn.

Wickenden is a very good storyteller. The sweep of the land and thestoicism(坚忍)of the people move her to some beautiful writing. Here is a pictureof Dorothy Woodruff, on her horse, looking down from a hill top: "When the sunslipped behind the mountains, it shed a rosy glow all around them. Then a fullmoon rose. The snow was marked only by small animals: foxes, coyotes, mice, andvarying 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. D. To do sightseeing.

25. 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.

26. 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 theWest.