“Lizzie, there’s a letter for you!” Emily called up the stairs to her sister. Elizabeth looked down. “Is it from Harvard? They refused my application once.” Emily answered, “No, it’s from Yale.” Quickly, Elizabeth walked downstairs. She took the letter and opened it. “Rejected again,” Elizabeth said unhappily. “Who says women can’t be doctors?”

“They are fools not to accept you. You can’t let them stop you, Lizzie,” Emily said.

“I won’t. I’ll apply to (申请) Geneva Medical College,” Elizabeth told her sister. As it turned out, the professors at Geneva Medical College were not fools. They allowed Elizabeth Blackwell to study medicine.

In 1848, a year before Elizabeth would graduate, a typhoid epidemic (伤寒流行病) broke out in New York. Elizabeth wrote to Emily. “There’s an outbreak (爆发) of typhoid, and I am going to help. It is dangerous, so if I should not survive, please do me the honor of studying medicine yourself.”

Emily replied, “Encouraged by your dream and success, I have decided to study in medical school, as well.”

Having survived the disease, Elizabeth tried to set up a private medical practice. “I graduated first in my class but no one believes a woman can be a good doctor,” she said to Emily one day. “All I hear is that doctors should be men, while women should stay home to cook and clean.”

Emily said worriedly, “I will graduate in June with my medical degree. What shall we do?” Elizabeth thought for a while and replied, “There’s a big house in the poor part of our town. We can practice medicine there for people who couldn’t afford care.”

Soon with the help of some friends, Elizabeth and Emily bought the house and opened a hospital for poor women and children. “We’ll have an all-women staff (员工),” Elizabeth said. “And later, we’ll add a medical college for women!” Emily added. At last, Elizabeth realized her dream of being a doctor.

1.The underlined word “Rejected” in the first paragraph can be best replaced by _____.

A．Refused          B．Praised           C．Changed          D．Accepted

2. Hearing Elizabeth’s words about the letter from Yale, Emily felt _____.

A．excited           B．calm             C．satisfied           D．angry

3. In 1848, Elizabeth wrote to Emily to _____.

A．persuade Emily to come to help the sick      B．ask Emily to study medicine if she died

C．warn Emily the danger of typhoid epidemic    D．tell Emily she would graduate from college

4.We can learn from the text that Elizabeth _____.

A．received strong support from her sister      B．refused to go to study at Yale University

C．founded a medical college after graduation    D．was finally accepted by Harvard after her efforts

5.Which of the following can best be used to describe Elizabeth?

A．Humorous.        B．Honest.           C．Determined.       D．Careful.

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　　After finishing high school, Judy looked for a job at a store．Judy wanted to work as an assistant. The manager of the store ___1___ Judy. “We don't have any openings（空缺）for assistants now. But we have another job. Would you like to be a store detective?”Judy was very surprised,“But I'm ___2___ five feet two inches tall. And I only weigh 105 pounds.”The manager laughed,“You're just ___3___ for the job. You don't look like a detective. You look like a ___4___. That's what we want.”He went on to explain,“If you see a customer steal something, wait ___5___ he is outside the store. Then stop him. We'll call the police.”

　　Judy decided to ___6___ the job as a store detective. Each day she walked around the store, ___7___ customers. She remembered the manager's words：“Most shoplifters（进商店行窃者）are well-dressed．Many shoplifters are rich.”

　　The manager ___8___ right. One day Judy saw ___9___ who looked like a businessman standing ___10___ the jewelry counter（柜台）. The assistant showed the man gold watches. ___11___ the assistant turned to another customer. Right then, the man put two watches on his ___12___. He wore a coat so no one could find him out. He put two more watches on himself ___13___ the assistant turned back. “I ___14___ these watches.”said the man.

　　The man walked as ___15___ as possible out of the front door. Judy ___16___ him outside and then shouted, “___17___ ! I saw you steal four watches.”The man began to run, and Judy ran after him. She cried out,“Stop that ___18___ !”A policeman at the corner seized（抓住）the man and later, a police ___19___ took the thief away.

　　The manager of the store was proud of Judy. He said, “Good work, Judy. You are an excellent ___20___.”

完形填空：阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

　　Jenkins was a jeweller, who had made a large diamond ring worth ￡ 57,000 for the Silkstone Jewellery Shop. When it was ready, he made a copy of it which looked 1 like the first one but was worth only ￡ 2,000. Then he took it to the shop, which 2 it without question.

　　Jenkins gave the much more 3 ring to his wife for her fortieth birthday. Then, the husband and wife 4 to Paris for a weekend. As to (至于说) the 5 ring, the shop sold it for ￡ 60,000.

　　Six months later the buyer 6 it back to Silkstone's office. “ It's a faulty (假的) diamond,” he said. “It isn't worth the high 7 I paid.” Then he told them the 8 . His wife's car had caught fire in an 9 . She had escaped, 10 the ring had fallen off and been damaged (损坏) in the great 11 of the fire. The shop had to 12 . They knew that 13 fire on earth can ever damage a perfect (完美的) diamond. Someone had taken the 14 diamond and put a faulty one in its place. The question was: who 15 it?

　　A picture of the ring appeared in the 16 . A reader thought he 17 the ring. The next day, another picture appeared in the papers which 18 a famous dancer walking out to a plane for Paris. Behind the dancer there was a woman 19 a large diamond ring. “Do you know the 20 with the lovely diamond ring?” the papers asked their readers. Several months later, Jenkins was sentenced to seven years in prison (监狱).

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