内容正文:
2021年高考英语全真冲刺卷(北京专用)
(考试时间:90分钟 试卷满分:100分)
第一部分:知识运用(共两节,30分)
第1节 完形填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,共15分)
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Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of five with her family. While nursing her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(n) __1__ in medicine. At 18 she married and started a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a __2__. Her husband supported her decision.
Unfortunately, Canadian medical schools did not __3__ women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study medcian at the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to __4__ her medical degree.
Upon graduation, Charlotte returned to Montreal and set up a private __5__. Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a busy doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte __6__ herself operating on damaged limbs and setting broken bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.
But Charlotte had been practising without a licence. She had _7__ a doctor's licence in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was refused. The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an allmale board, wanted her to _8__ her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to leave her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887, she appealed to the Manitoba Legislature to _9__ a licence to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte continued to practise without a licence until 1912. She died four years later at the age of 73.
In 1993, 77 years after her _10__, a medical licence was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honour “this courageous and pioneering woman”.
1.A. habit B.interest C.opinion D.voice
2.A. doctor B.musician C.lawyer D.physicist
3.A. hire B.entertain