Unit 4 Sharing learning about language课时作业

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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 ill 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 all-male 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 honor "this courageous and pioneering woman".

1. A. raising B. teaching C. nursing D. missing

2. A. habit B. interest C. opinion D. voice

3. A. invented B. selected C. offered D. started

4. A. doctor B. musician C. lawyer D. physicist