七七 | 2022年乙卷AB篇

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Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)

The Exhibition

This exhibition of some sixty masterpieces celebrating the life and work of Scotland’s best loved painter, Sir Henry Raeburn, comes to London. Selected from collections throughout the world, it is the first major exhibition of his work to be held in over forty years.

Lecture Series

Scottish National Portrait (肖像畫) Gallery presents a series of lectures for the general public. They are held in the Lecture Room. Admission to lectures is free.

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 ust have ID cards with them.
• B. They should come from art schools.
• C. They must be led by teachers.?
• D. They must have ID cards with them.

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①In 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.

②Why did they go then? Well, they wanted to do something useful. Soon, however, they realized what they had undertaken.

③They 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.

④In 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 (牽涉) drilling through the Rockies, often in blinding snowstorms. The book ends with Rosamond and Dorothy’s return to Auburn.

• concern：v. 涉及
• building：n. 修建
• drill：adj. 枯燥無味的；v. 鉆

⑤Wickenden is a very good storyteller. The sweep of the land and the stoicism (堅忍) 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.
• 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 the West.

27. What is the text?

• A. A news report.
• B. A book review.?
• C. A children’s story.
• D. A diary entry.