Question

In 1930, a young African American, Vivien T. Thomas, a professional carpenter, was hired as a lab assistant by a famous white doctor named Dr. Alfred Blalock. Although he 26 went to college, he had an enormous 27 to learn and explore the power of knowledge. Whenever Dr. Blalock left his office, young Thomas used to 28 study the medical books on the shelves of the office. 　　

Thomas 29 a great interest in learning more and more about 30 when he started to assist Blalock during his practice of surgeries on dogs. 31 Dr. Blalock understood Thomas’s ability to help him perform a complicated surgery, he still did not 32 Thomas as a smart person because of the social 33 of prejudice towards African Americans.

Dr. Blalock wanted to 34 to believe that Thomas was just a(n) 35 by profession and a lab assistant. Employees, white or black, at the hospital could not 　　　 36 that an African American, Thomas, could run the lab. He was the 37 and thus a history maker.

In those days, the society expected that black people were 38 to be janitors (管理员). Despite this reality, Thomas’ cleverness, perseverance, and passion had 39 a need in Dr. Blalock’s mind. Thomas ran John Hopkins Hospital’s surgical (外科的) lab 40 Dr. Blalock. At the time, all other 41 employees in the hospital were janitors. Dr. Blalock and Thomas became a 42 and conducted a joint research that 43 the first heart surgery performed at John Hopkins University Hospital in 1941.

Many years later, Thomas’s contribution was 44 and he was eventually awarded an honorary doctorate, for his creative work in the 45 procedures of modern cardiac(心脏病的) surgery. As he became Dr. Thomas, he also inspired and lifted the confidence of the future generation. He used his knowledge for the betterment of humankind.

26. A. always	B. often	C. occasionally	D. never
27. A. chance	B. desire	C. income	D. success
28. A. secretly	B. publicly	C. nervously	D. proudly
29. A. discovered	B. avoided	C. developed	D. protected
30. A. literature	B. medicine	C. politics	D. history
31. A. While	B. When	C. As	D. Because
32. A. praise	B. reward	C. criticize	D. accept
33. A. benefit	B. position	C. pressure	D. revolution
34. A. agree	B. continue	C. regret	D. remember
35. A. carpenter	B. professor	C. engineer	D. scientist
36. A. promise	B. argue	C. explain	D. understand
37. A. next	B. last	C. first	D. same
38. A. hardly	B. merely	C. luckily	D. mostly
39. A. created	B. searched	C. built	D. missed
40. A. over	B. above	C. without	D. under
41. A. common	B. noble	C. black	D. poor
42. A. unit	B. team	C. family	D. system
43. A. led to	B. resulted from	C. accounted for	D. gave up
44. A. changed	B. followed	C. exhibited	D. recognized
45. A. pioneering	B. surprising	C. interesting	D. worrying

Answer 1

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