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I. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with a suitable word.
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and ............emigrated........... (1) to America when she was ten years old. She was the first woman to .............receive.......... (2) a medical degree. Getting that ............degree........... (3)was not easy at all. She applied to twenty nine medical schools and was always refused ...........all............ (4) at that time, only men was admitted to ..........those............. (5) schools. But she never gave .............up.......... (6). She studied privately with a doctor ...........for............ (7) three years. Then she ...........applied............ (8) to all the medical schools again. This ...........time............ (9), in 1847, the medical institute of Geneva New York .............accepted.......... (10) her.
However, ...........since............ (11) Elizabeth began attending classes, the students often treated her unkindly. Also, at first she was even stopped ...........from............ (12) some of the classrooms demonstrations. Nevertheless, she ............never........... (13) stepped back. In 1853, after further study, Elizabeth Blackwell opened the New York institute ............for........... (14) women and children. Later, she added medical college for women ............so........... (15) that they could also become doctors.
Read the passage carefully then fill in the blank a suitable word.
As swimming became a popular recreation in England during the 1860s and 1870s, several _water__ sports developed, roughly patterned after land sports. _Among__ them were water footbal (or soccer), water rugby, water handball, and water polo, in which player rode on floating barrels, painted to look _like__ horses, and struck the ball with a stick.
Water rugby became most popular of these sports, but somehow the water polo name became attached to it, and it's been attached _ever__ since.
As played in England, the object of the sport was for a player to touch the ball, with both _hands __, at the goal end of the pool. The goaltender stood on the pool deck, ready to dive on any opponent who was about to score.
Water polo quickly became a very rough sport, filled _with __ underwater fights away from the ball, and it wasn't unusual for players to pass out for lack of air.
In 1877, the sport was tamed in Scotland by the addiction of goalposts. The Scots also replace _the__ original small, hard rubber ball with soccer ball and adopted _rules__ that prohibited taking the ball under the surface or, "tackling" a player unless he had the ball.
The Scottish game, which emphasized swimming speed, passing and __team_ work, spread to England during the early 1880s, to Hungary in 1889, to Austria and Germany in 1894, to France in 1895, and __to_ Belgium in 1900.
Water polo was the first team sport added to the Olympic program, in 1900.
II.One of the most famous statues in the (1)____stands on an island in New York Harbor. This (2)____is , of course, the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is a woman who holds a torch up high. Visitors can go inside the statue. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 301 feet (3)_____.The Statue of Liberty was put up in 1886. It was a gift to the United Statuea form the people of France. In the years after the statue (4)____put up, many immigrants came to the United Statue through New York. As they entered New York harbor, they (5)___the statue of Liberty holding up her torch. She symbolized a welcome to a land of freedom.
1.A.cities B. world C. earth D.countries
2.A.statue B.island C.harbor D.statues
3.A.tall B.height C.width D.length
4.A.is B.was C.is being D.0
5.A.see B.saw C.have seen D. will see
The New York Institution for the blind was (1).............in 1831, about five years after Louis Braille had developed system of writing for the (2)...........It was one of the first schools in the United States to provide an (3)............program for children who were blind or mentally impaired. Early in the twentieth century the name was (4)............to The New York Institute for Special Education to better reflect the program's expanded focus and commitment to children with a variety of (5).............
1.a.discovered b.founded c.located d.provided
2.a.deaf b.blind c.mute d.disable
3.a.educated b.educating c.education d.educational
4.a.renamed b.adjusted c.changed d.developed
5.a.impairments b.injuries c.handicaps d.disabilities