阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843,and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of five with her family. While ________ her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(n) ________ in medicine. At 18 she married and ________ a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a ________.Her husband supported her decision.
________ ,Canadian medical schools did not ________ women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study ________ at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to ________ her medical degree.
Upon graduation, Charlotte ________to Montreal and set up a private ________ .Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a ________ doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte ________ herself operating on damaged limbs and setting ________ bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.
But Charlotte had been practising without a licence. She had ________ a doctor’s licence in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was ________.The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to ________ her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to ________ her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887,she applied to the Manitoba Legislature to ________ a licence to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte ________ to practise without a licence until 1912.She died four years later at the age of 73.
In 1993,77 years after her ________a medical licence was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman.”
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A.raising |
B.teaching |
C.nursing |
D.missing |
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A.habit |
B.interest |
C.opinion |
D.voice |
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A.invented |
B.selected |
C.offered |
D.started |
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A.doctor |
B.musician |
C.lawyer |
D.physicist |
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A.Besides |
B.Unfortunately |
C.Otherwise |
D.Eventually |
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A.hire |
B.entertain |
C.trust |
D.accept |
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A.history |
B.physics |
C.medicine |
D.law |
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A.improve |
B.save |
C.design |
D.earn |
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A.returned |
B.escaped |
C.spread |
D.wandered |
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A.school |
B.museum |
C.clinic |
D.lab |
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A.busy |
B.wealthy |
C.greedy |
D.lucky |
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A.helped |
B.found |
C.troubled |
D.imagined |
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A.harmful |
B.tired |
C.broken |
D.weak |
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A.put away |
B.taken over |
C.turned in |
D.applied for |
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A.punished |
B.refused |
C.blamed |
D.fired |
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A.display |
B.change |
C.preview |
D.complete |
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A.leave |
B.charge |
C.test |
D.cure |
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A.sell |
B.donate |
C.issue |
D.show |
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A.continued |
B.promised |
C.pretended |
D.dreamed |
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A.birth |
B.death |
C.wedding |
D.graduation |
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