1916年，兩個來自紐約州奧本的富裕家庭的女孩——多蘿西·伍德洛夫和羅莎蒙德·安德伍德——來到落基山脈的一個定居地，在一個只有一間教室的校舍里教書。女孩們是史密斯學(xué)院的學(xué)生。他們穿著昂貴的衣服.因此，對他們來說，去科羅拉多州的埃爾克海德(Elkhead)教那些鞋子是用繩子綁起來的孩子們是一件令人驚喜的事情?！稛o所畏懼:兩個摩登女孩在西部受到的意料外教育》一書描寫的就是他們在埃爾克黑德的經(jīng)歷.作者多蘿西·威肯登 (Dorothy Wickenden) 是雜志編輯，也是多蘿西·伍德拉夫 (Dorothy Woodruff) 的孫女。

那她們?yōu)槭裁匆ツ?她們想做些有意義的事。然而，他們很快就意識到她們正在干什么。
他們搬進了當(dāng)?shù)氐囊粋€家庭，哈里森一家，和他們一樣，沒有任何隱私，很少洗澡，早上醒來時被子上都蒙著一層雪。有些早晨，羅莎蒙德和多蘿西來到學(xué)校，發(fā)現(xiàn)孩子們因受凍而哭泣。在春天，雪代替了泥,泥在冰上攪和。

在威肯登的書中，她講述了西部歷史,還有影響了女孩們?nèi)グ柨撕诘碌臎Q定的女權(quán)主義。一個令人毛骨悚然的章節(jié)是關(guān)于鐵路建設(shè)的,這包括鉆井通過落基山脈,讓人目盲的暴風(fēng)雪。書是以羅莎蒙德和多蘿西回到奧本結(jié)尾的。

威肯登是個很會講故事的人。她創(chuàng)作出一系列美麗的作品描寫了遼闊的土地和堅毅的人們。這里是一段描述多蘿西·伍德拉夫(Dorothy Woodruff)騎在馬上從山頂往下看的文字:“當(dāng)太陽躲到山的背后，給萬物映上了玫瑰色的光芒。接著一輪滿月升起。雪地上點綴著一些小動物:狐貍、郊狼、老鼠和各種野兔，它們在冬天會變成白色?！?

原文：

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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 (牽涉) 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 (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.