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话题:救死扶伤,感人至深
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(2014·山东卷)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 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 honor “this courageous and pioneering woman.”
【解题导语】 本文讲述了一位加拿大女医生冲破性别歧视的羁绊救死扶伤的故事。