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第4课时 Assessing Your Progress & Video Time [见学生用书P11]
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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 __1__ her sick elder sister throughout the years,Charlotte discovered she had a(n) __2__ in medicine.At 18 she married and __3__ a family.Several years later,Charlotte said she wanted to be a __4__.Her husband supported her decision.
__5__,Canadian medical schools did not __6__ women students at the time.Therefore,Charlotte went to the United States to study __7__ at the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia.It took her five years to __8__ her medical degree.
Upon graduation,Charlotte __9__ to Montreal and set up a private __10__.Three years later,she moved to Winnipeg,Manitoba,and there she was once again a __11__ doctor.Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps.Charlotte __12__ herself operating on damaged limbs and setting __13__ bones,in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.
But Charlotte had been practising without a licence.She had __14__ a doctor's licence in both Montreal and Winnipeg,but was __15__.The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons,an allmale board,wanted her to __16__ her studies at a Canadian medical college!Charlotte refused to __17__ her patients to spend time studying what she already knew.So in 1887,she appealed to the Manitoba Legislature to __18__ a licence to her but they,too,refused.Charlotte __19__ to practise without a licence until 1912.She died four years later at the age of 73.
In 1993,77 years after her __20__,a medical licence was issued to Charlotte.This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honour “this courageous and pioneering woman”.
语篇解读:本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了Charlotte Whitehead 的生平事迹,尤其是她在行医方面做出的贡献。
( C )1.A.raising B.teaching
C.nursing D.missing
( B )2.A.habit B.interest
C.opinion D.voice
( D )3.A.invented B.selected
C.offered D.started
( A )4.A.doctor B.musician
C.lawye