高考英语模拟试题阅读理解精选编讲第265篇——秒词邦微信小程序

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.”

1916年，来自纽约州奥本的两个富裕家庭的女孩，最好的朋友——多萝西·伍德拉夫和罗莎蒙德·安德伍德——来到落基山脉的一个定居点，在一间只有一个房间的校舍里教书。女孩们去了史密斯学院。他们穿着昂贵的衣服。因此，对于他们来说，搬到科罗拉多州的埃尔克黑德去指导那些用绳子把鞋子绑在一起的孩子们是一个惊喜。多萝西·威肯登（Dorothy Wickenden）是多萝西·伍德拉夫的孙女，也是一名杂志编辑，她撰写了《Nothing Daunted:the Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West》。

那他们为什么去？嗯，他们想做一些有用的事情。然而，很快，他们意识到自己所做的一切。

他们搬到了当地的哈里森一家，和他们一样，几乎没有隐私，很少洗澡，早上醒来时被子上盖着一层雪。有些早晨，罗莎蒙德和多萝西来到学校，发现孩子们因寒冷而哭泣。春天，雪被冰上的泥所代替。

在威肯登的书中，她扩展了西方的历史，也扩展了女权主义，这当然影响了女孩们去埃尔克黑德的决定。一个令人毛骨悚然的部分涉及铁路建设，这需要(牵涉) 在落基山脉钻探，经常在令人目眩的暴风雪中。这本书的结尾是罗莎蒙德和多萝西回到奥本。

威肯登是个很会讲故事的人。大地的横扫和坚忍(坚忍) 人们的热情使她创作出一些优美的作品。这是多萝西·伍德拉夫（Dorothy Woodruff）骑着马从山顶往下看的照片：“当太阳落在山后面时，四周都散发出玫瑰色的光芒。然后满月升起。雪上只有小动物：狐狸、郊狼、老鼠和各种各样的野兔，它们在冬天变成了白色。

句子成分分析：

The Unexpected Education (of Two Society Girls (in the West (by DorothyWickenden, (who is a magazine editor and Dorothy

Woodruff's granddaughter)))).

句子语法结构详解：

* who 为关系代词，引导非限制性定语从句。
* is 为系动词作谓语，采用一般现在时。
* Dorothy Woodruff's 为名词所有格。the 为定冠词。a 为不定冠词。

句子相关词汇解释：

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Vocabulary:

句子成分分析：

They moved in [with a local family, <theHarrisons>], and, <like them>, had little privacy, rare baths, and a blanket- 

(of snow) [on their quilt] || when theywoke up [in the morning].

句子语法结构详解：

(woke 为 wake 的过去式。)

* moved 为谓语，采用一般过去时。
* the Harrisons 为同位语
* had 为谓语，采用一般过去时。
* when 为连词，引导时间状语从句。
* woke 为谓语，采用一般过去时。
* they 为人称代词主格。them 为人称代词宾格。their 为形容词型物主代词。the 为定冠词。a 为不定冠词。

句子相关词汇解释：

Phrase:

Vocabulary:

句子成分分析：

Some mornings,Rosamond and Dorothy would arrive at the schoolhouse to find the children weeping [from the cold].

句子语法结构详解：

(children 为 child 的复数形式。)

* arrive 为谓语，采用一般过去将来时。
* to find 为不定式，作状语。
* weeping 为现在分词，作宾语补足语(即构成复合宾语)。
* would 为情态动词。the 为定冠词。

句子相关词汇解释：

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