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Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and emigrated (移民) to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters to medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She, taught in a school and gave music lessons to earn enough money for her tuition.
In 1849, after graduation from medical school, she decided to continue her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon, but a serious eye illness forced her to give up the idea.
Upon returning to the U. S. , she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children. Besides being the first physician and founding her own hospital, she also established the first medical school for women.
What was the mai
A. She was a woman.
B. She wrote too many letters.
C. She couldn’t graduate from medical school.
D. She couldn’t establish her hospital.
[单项选择]Elizabeth Taylor was born in England in 1932. She was a very beautiful child, with black hair and bluish-purple eyes.
In 1939, she and her family moved to America, where film makers soon noticed her beauty. She became a child star at the age of nine, and appeared in the film "Lassie" and "National Velvet". Elizabeth Taylor is one of the few child film stars who have been quite successful when they grow up.
She has made many well-known films all her life: one of them is "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" in 1958. Her personal life has not been as successful as her films. She has got married eight times.
She has often been ill with back problems and has had many operations. In 1981, after she left her second husband, she was in such low spirits that she turned to food, drink and drugs (毒品) for comfort. For the first time in her life, her beauty left her and she put on a lot of weight.
However, in 1983, she went to stay in a hospital, and there she worked hard to give up
A. Because she spoke English very well.
B. Because she looked very pretty.
C. Because her father was a famous director.
[单项选择]Elizabeth was fortunate to be born in the lull flush of Renaissance enthusiasm for education. Women had always been educated of course, for had not St. Paul said that women were men’s equals in the possession of a soul But to the old idea that they should be trained in Christian manners and thought was now added a new purpose: to quicken the spirit and train them in the craft and eloquence of the classical authors of Greece and Rome. Critics were not wanting, morbidly obsessed with the weaknesses of the sex-- its love of novelty and inborn tendency to vice -- to think women dangerous enough without adding to their subtlety and forwardness; but they were not able to stem the tide.
Henry VII’s mother was one of the first to indicate the new trend. She knew enough French to translate "The Mirror of God for the Sinful Soul" and was the patron of Caxton, the first English printer, and a liberal benefactor to the universities. Sir Thomas More’s daughters studied Greek, Latin, philoso
A. make them superior to men in religion and intellectual matters.
B. make them less religious and more rationed and intellectual.
C. make up for their weaknesses of character and brain.
D. develop both their religious and their intellectual capacities.
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