UNIT 6 THE ADMIRABLE Section Ⅳ Lesson 2 -【精讲精练】2023-2024学年英语必修第二册北师大版(课时作业)

学科网书城 团 品牌书店·知名教辅·正版资源 b.zxxk.com☐ 您身边的互联网+教辅专家 层级②素养能力提升 1阅读理解 A Not even a flooded river could stand between Mary Breckinridge and the hospital her patients needed.A heavy rain ruined the banks beside Mary Breckinridge's Wendover,Kentucky,clinic.She had to find a way to get her five patients to the hospital in Lexington With a neighbor's help,Mary and the nurses built a boat They named it Ambulance,and on the morning of December 30.1926,Mary,another nurse,and the patients set off down the river.After sixteen wild miles on the dangerous river,they arrived at the train station in Krypton.As she watched the train pull away with her patients safely on board,Mary smiled and waved Mary had not planned to be a nurse.She was the daughter of a wealthy Kentucky politician As a child,Mary was influenced by her family who had always been concemed about the poor people of the state.When she grew up,Mary was inspired to become a nurse.So in 1925 Mary hired a few British-trained nurses and,with some money from her family,started the Frontier Nursing Service in Wendover,Kentucky Before Mary and her nurses came,the mountain people lived a hard life.Families made so little money that they could not afford doctors or medicine.Many children had diseases and nearly every person was in bad health for lack of food. Mary and the nurses built clinics and a small hospital deep in the forests of Leslie County.There were no paved )roads,electricity,or telephones Each day the nurses rode on horseback to faraway farms,often in bad weather,to answer calls for help.They worked hard to keep an eye on their patients. To the grateful mountain people,Mary and the nurses seemed to be everywhere.They treated everything from cut fingers to pneumonia()and delivered babies.The proud countrymen liked the nurses because they treated everyone with respect. The Frontier Nursing Service grew.Today their nursing service reaches far beyond the Kentucky mountains.Medical professionals from all over the world co