单选题
There were times when she was ill and could not
leave her bed for months and even years. There were times when she worked day
and night, visiting hospitals, making plans for the care of the poor and the
sick, talking with important government officers, writing reports. Two great
aims were ever before her: improving the conditions of the common soldiers in
the army, and making nursing a well-paid, respected life-work for women. In both
of these aims she had great success. Because of her, nursing is
what it is today. The Nightingale Training School for Nurses was started near
one of the large hospitals of England. The fine training that thousands of young
women received here during the years that followed has greatly changed nursing
all over the world. The little book on nursing which she wrote at this time is
still interesting to read. It may contain little which is new to people today,
but to the people of her day her ideas were most surprising. Thousands of copies
were sent to mills, workshops, villages and schools, and it was translated into
three European languages. The simple, direct advice on the care of sick people
was much needed and most helpful.
单选题
Whom is the passage talking about?
A. Helen Keller.
B. Florence Nightingale.
C. Marie Curie.
D. George Washington.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】推断题。本文第一段谈论了一位勤奋工作的女性，她的工作与医务有关，她的目标之一是提高护理工作的薪水和地位。第二段第二句话谈到了Nightingale Training School for Nurses(南丁格尔护士培训学校)，由此可知，本文谈论的女性是B项(弗罗伦斯·南丁格尔)。
单选题
She was successful in ______.
A. improving the pay and status of nursing
B. improving the conditions of the soldiers
C. translating her book on nursing into several languages
D. Both A and B
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】细节题。见本文第一段后两句TWO great aims…great success(她面前始终有两大目标：一是改善军队普通士兵的条件；二是使护理成为薪金不薄且受人尊重的一种女性的终生职业。她在这两大目标方面都是成绩斐然)，因此D项“提高护理工作的薪水和地位”、“改善士兵的条件”为正确答案。
单选题
What is the main idea of Paragraph 2?
A. The Nightingale Training School for Nurses.
B. The contribution she made to nursing.
C. The little book she wrote on nursing.
D. Her life.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】主旨题。第二段的第一句Because of her，nursing is what it is today(正是因为她，护理工作才有了今天这样的面貌)为这段的主题句，接下来作者谈到了南丁格尔护士培训学校和她编写的护理学小册子以支持此论点。因此，第二段主要谈论了B项“她对护理学作出的贡献”。
单选题
It can be inferred in the passage that ______.
A. the advice in the book on the care of sick people was helpful
B. people of her day accepted her ideas in the book well
C. the Nightingale Training School for Nurses played an important role in
the changes of nursing all over the world
D. sometimes she was busy visiting hospitals, making plans for the care of
the poor and the sick and so on
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】推断题。见第二段第三句The fine training…the world，因此可推出C项“南丁格尔护士培训学校在改变全世界的护理学面貌上起到了重要作用”。文中第二和第一段分别明确提到A和D；而根据第二段第五句to the people of her day her ideas were most surprising，B项不符文意。因此C项为正确选择。
单选题
What is the author's attitude towards Nightingale?