Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved 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．So determined was she, that she taught in school and gave music lessons to earn money for her schooling．
In 1849, after graduation from medical school, she decided to further her education in Paris．
Upon returning to the United States, 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 female physician and founding her own hospital, she also set up the first medical school for women．
(1)
Elizabeth Blackwell was educated in _________．
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A．
America
B．
England
C．
France
D．
America and France
(2)
Elizabeth Blackwell got her money for schooling from _________．
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A．
her parents
B．
her part-time job
C．
her scholarship
D．
her sister
(3)
How many years passed between her graduation from medical school and opening of her own hospital?
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A．
8
B．
10
C．
9
D．
7
(4)
What almost destroyed Elizabeth's chance of becoming a doctor?
Our boat floated on, between walls of forest too thick to allow us a view of the land we were passing through, though we knew from the map that our river must from time to time be passing through chains of hills which crossed the jungle plains．Nowhere did we find a place where we could have landed：where the jungle did not actually spread right down into the river, banks of soft mud prevented us going ashore．In any case, what would we have sailed by landing?The country was full of snakes and other dangerous creatures, and the jungle was so thick that one would be able to advance only slowly, cutting one’s way with knives the whole way．So we stayed in the boat, hoping we reached the sea, a friendly fisherman would pick us up and take us to civilization．
We lived on fish, caught with home-made net of string(we had no hooks), and fruits and nuts we could pick up out of the water．As we had no fire, we had to eat everything, including the fish, raw I had never tasted raw fish before, and I must say I did not much enjoy the experience; perhaps sea fish which do not live in the mud are less tasteless．After eating my raw fish, I lay back and dreamed of such things as fried chicken and rice, and ice-cream．In the never-ending damp heat of the jungle, ice-cream was a particularly frequent dream．
As for water, there was a choice：we could drink the muddy river water, or die of thirst．We drank the water．Men who had just escaped what had appeared to be certain death lose all worries about such small things as diseases caused by dirty water．In fact, none of us suffered from any illness as a result．
One day we passed another village, but fortunately nobody saw us．We did not wish to risk being taken prisoners a second time：we might not be so lucky to escape in a stolen boat again．
(1)
What they could see in the boat was only ________．
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A．
high wall
B．
villagers from time to time
C．
vast land
D．
heavy woods
(2)
They couldn’t land because ________．
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A．
the mud on the shore was too soft
B．
the forest was too thick to let them go through
C．
they could not find the mark on the map
D．
they could not find anyone to lead them out of the forest．
(3)
The passage infers that the forest was ________．
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A．
rich of fruits and animals to be served as food
B．
not very thick as they could advance slowly by cutting the branches
C．
full of various dangerous beings
D．
full of ancient trees
(4)
The most proper title for this passage might be ________．
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afraid. A person with a green thumb