Florence Nightingale was born in a rich family. When she was young she took lessons in music and drawing, and read great books. She also traveled a great deal with her mother and father.
As a child she felt that visiting sick people was both a duty and a pleasure. She enjoyed helping them. At last mind was made up. “I’m going to be a nurse,” she decided.
“Nursing isn’t the right work for a lady,” her father told her.
“Then I will make it so, “she smiled. And she went to learn nursing in Germany and France. When she returned to England, Florence started a nursing home for home. During the Crimean War in 1854 she went with a group of thirty eight nurses to the front hospitals. What they saw there was terrible. Dirt and death were everywhere to be seen — and smelled. The officer there did not want any woman to tell him how to run a hospital, either. But the brave nurse went to work . Florence used her own money and some from friends to buy clothes, beds, medicine and food for the men. Her only pay was in smiles from the lips of dying soldiers. But they were more than enough for this kind woman.
After she returned to England, she was honored for her services by Queen Victoria. But Florence said that her work had just begun. She raised money to build the Nightingale Home for Nurses in London. She also wrote a book on public health, which was printed in several countries.
Florence Nightingale died at the age of ninety, still trying to serve others through her work as a nurse. Indeed, it is because of her that we honor nurses today.
56．When she was a child, Florence ____.
A．loved to travel very much B．knew what her duty in life was
C．loved to help sick people D．was most interested in music and drawing
57．During the Crimean War in 1854, Florence served in the front hospital where ____.
A．she earned a little money B．work was very difficult
C．few soldiers died because of her work D．she didn’t have enough food or clothes
58．The passage can best be described as ____.
A．the life story of a famous woman B．a description of the nursing work
C．an example of successful education D．the history of nursing in England
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In 1837, at the age of seventeen, Florence Nightingale decided to become a nurse, which horrified her whimsical（多奇想的）mother. In those days nurses were little more than door-keepers, and hospitals were pits of squalor（污秽）and neglect. Nightingale pressed on, and in 1853 she became superintendent（院长）of a small London hospital. She went on to the Crimea when war broke out there between Britain and Russia. She established the first of what we know as war hospitals: sanitary（卫生）, safe and stocked with supplies. Her tireless ministrations（照顾，照料）to the wounded soldiers made her famous all over the world.
Following the war Nightingale avoided fame and continued to train nurses, ever battling against what she herself declared“a commonly received idea... that it requires nothing but a disappointment in love or incapacity in other things, to turn a woman into a good nurse.”ince 1921 her birthday--May 12--has been the centerpiece of National Hospital Week, observed in British and American hospitals with special exhibitions, workshops and publicity drives.
(1)Florence Nightingale was born on ______.
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(2)The underlined word“it”efers to ______.
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A．turning a woman into a doctor
B．turning a woman into a good nurse
C．avoiding fame
D．continuing to train nurses
(3)The word“observed”n the second paragraph means ______.
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(4)Why did Florence Nightingale become well-known all over the world?
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A．She was one of the best nurses then.
B．Her skills of operations were the most wonderful and successful.
C．She always looked after the wounded soul and heart.
D．She was superintendent of London Hospital.
(5)Why did Florence Nightingale want to become a nurse?
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A．The author did not give the reason.
B．Florence Nightingale would like to become famous by attending the wounded of battles.
C．She wanted to take good care of the sick.
D．She was not able to do anything but become a nurse.
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