题目内容
—Must I stop eating roast pork
and ice cream to lose weight?—No, you _________. You should cut them down and have a balanced diet.
| A.ought not to | B.can’ t | C.don’ t have to | D.mustn’ t |
C
解析
It was a simple letter asking for a place to study at Scotland’s oldest university which helped start a revolution in higher education. A 140-year-old letter written by a lady calling for her to be allowed to study medicine at St Andrews University has been discovered by researchers. Written by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1873, the seven-page document, which urged the university to allow women to study medicine at the institution, was released yesterday on International Women’s Day.
The document was discovered buried in the university archives (档案) by part-time history student Lis Smith, who is completing her PhD at St Andrews Institute of Scottish Historical Research. She said: “We knew that Sophia Jex-Blake and her supporters, in their effort to open up university medical education for women, had written to the Senatus Academicus (校评议委员会) at St Andrews in an attempt to gain permission to attend classes there, but we didn’t know documentary evidence existed. While searching the archives for information about the university’s higher certificate for women, I was astonished to come across what must be the very letter Jex-Blake wrote.”
In the letter, Sophia and her supporters offered to hire teachers or build suitable buildings for a medical school and to arrange for lectures to be delivered in the subjects not already covered at St Andrews. Although her letter was not successful, it eventually led to the establishment of the Ladies Literate in Arts at St Andrews, a distance-learning degree for women. The qualification, which ran from 1877 until the 1930s, gave women access to university education in the days before they were admitted as students. It was so popular that it survived long after women were admitted as full students to St Andrews in 1892.
Ms Jex-Blake went on to help establish the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874. She was accepted by the University of Berne, where she was awarded a medical degree in January 1877. Eventually, she moved back to Edinburgh and opened her own practice.
【小题1】Sophia wrote a letter to St Andrews University because she wanted _______.
| A.to carry out a research project there |
| B.to set up a medical institute there |
| C.to study medicine there |
| D.to deliver lectures there |
| A.by pure chance |
| B.in the school office |
| C.with her supporters’ help |
| D.while reading history books |
| A.the London School of Medicine for Women |
| B.a degree programme for women |
| C.a system of medical education |
| D.the University of Berne |
| A.In 1873. | B.In 1874. | C.In 1877. | D.In 1892. |
To find how the name Canada came about we must go back to the 16th century. At that time, the French dreamed of disclosing and controlling more land, of expanding(扩展)trade beyond(超出) their borders and of spreading their faith(信仰) across the world .In 1535, Francois I ,King of France, ordered a navigator (航海家) named Jacques Cartier to explore(探险) the New World and search for a passage to India.
Cartier first arrived at the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, which he wanted to explore. He did not know what to expect but he hoped that this Gulf was just an arm of the ocean between two islands. If it was, he would soon be on his way to the Far East. So he sailed upstream along the St. Lawrence River. However, instead or reaching Asia he arrived at Quebec or Stadacona, as the Indians called it. It was at this point that the term “ Canada” entered the country’s history. Apparently the word “Canada” came from an Indian work “Kanata”, which means community or village. Cartier first used it when he referred to Stadacona or Quebec. What a huge “ village” Canada is!
【小题1】In the early sixteenth century , the King of France ordered Cartier to ______
| A. find the new world |
| B. build an entirely new country |
| C. go and visit the American Indians |
| D. get more information about America and find a way to Asia |
| A. he had already got to India |
| B. it was a water way to the New World |
| C. it was a water passage to the East |
| D. he had sailed into the Atlantic |
| A. an Indian village |
| B. a little town in southern Canada |
| C. a village at the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence |
| D. the place which we call Canada now |
| A. Quebec was a village and Stadacona was another |
| B. Cartier mistook Quebec for Stadacona |
| C. Stadacona was a village in Quebec |
| D. Stadacona was what the Indians called Quebec then |
| A. a small town in Stadacona |
| B. the place called Quebec |
| C. a long water passage |
| D. a huge village including Quebec and Stadacona |