1 . In the 19th century, three pioneering women struggled to find their place in a male-controlled field. Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sophia Jex-Blake—among the first female doctors—are the heroines of Olivia Campbell’s new book. The story is lively and interesting, and the main characters are full of personality and individualism. Jex-Blake is described as “big and confident, a determined educational reformer with large eyes and an even lager personality”. Garrett Anderson, referred to as “Lizzie” throughout, was equally determined but also educated, and polite. The result is a great read for anyone looking for an introduction to the history of medical women.

The biographies of the three women are woven into a bigger, grander story about medicine in the 19th century and it is slow and unwilling acceptance of female physicians (医师). Though British, Blackwell attended medical school in the US. “Lizzie” was admitted to the medical school only via a loophole (漏洞) in the admissions policy. And Jex-Blake’s attempt to sit a medical exam in Edinburgh was met with a storm of protest.

Unsurprisingly, the three heroines faced many difficulties, but their efforts finally proved successful. Women in White Coats is, therefore, a successful tale of social progress. The final concluding chapter paints a sunny picture of present-day equality within the medical profession. However, in its efforts to tell an inspiring story, the book glosses over continuing problems within the profession today. Though more women than men now graduate from medical school, they face struggles with career progression and sexism.

We need more books that don’t offer a “great white men” approach to history. However, they have to deal with the incomplete and uneven nature of progress. Inspiring as it is to read stories of heroines trying hard and succeeding against the odds, that isn’t the whole picture. Medicine might be better for women now than in the past, but the problems of the Victorian era continue to exist and we still have far to go.

1. Who might particularly enjoy reading Women in white Coats?

A．People favoring science fiction novels.

B．Researchers studying great white men in history.

C．Those interested in female pioneers in medicine.

D．Students curious about the development of medicine.

2. Why does the writer tell the stories of the three women in Paragraph 2?

A．To praise their strong personality.

B．To state the success of women in medicine.

C．To prove their determination and confidence.

D．To show the challenges faced by female physicians.

3. What do the underlined words “glosses over” mean in Paragraph 3?

A．Solves.

B．Ignores.

C．Stresses.

D．Defends.

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Gender equality has been achieved in medicine.

B．The problems faced by women are a thing of the past.

C．History books should inspire people with women’s success.

D．History books should cover the successes and struggles of women.

2 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写一段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。（字数150左右）

"Why did you do this without asking for my permission first? Don't you know it's a total waste of time and it will have a bad influence on your study?" That's what my mother yelled at the ten-year-old me when she found out that I had signed up for an English story-telling competition.

I bowed my head; yes, she was right. By then I was entering Grade Six, faced with the biggest challenge yet to come — the examination to enter my dream junior high school. For that. I had given up my beloved piano lesson, my favourite cartoon program and even the joyful weekend family reunion with my cousins. I wouldn't be surprised at all if my very strict-university-teacher mother got angry at me when I chose to do anything that had little to do with study at that important moment. In her opinion, if I hadn't spent all my time on my study I would have difficulty in entering my dream junior high school.

But that's not all to it. When I was ten, I was nervous, shy, tongue-tied when facing strangers, and essentially a bookworm. These signs looked fatal (致命的) to my mother, and possibly to you, too; she thought that I could be anything but a good public speaker.

Well, I myself actually said no to my English teacher at first, because I had never done anything like that before and I was afraid. But he told me that — since I liked reading so much, why not try to tell a story I love to everyone? He also promised me that the judges were not frightening at all; just think of them as carrots and cabbages in a vegetable garden.

The ten-year-old me was persuaded by my teacher's words.
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Apparently surprised by my determination, my mother looked as if she was close to another explosion-but she only sighed and agreed.
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3 . 假定你是李江，你的笔友 Peter来信说，下周他要在课堂上作与“基因编辑”主题相关的介绍展示，希望你能帮助他。你给他写封信，内容包括以下几点：
1.“基因编辑”在生活中的应用；
2.你对该项技术的看法。
注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Peter,

Hearing that you are going to do a presentation on “gene editing” in your class next week,I would like to share with you some relevant information.

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I am hopeful that the above information is useful to you.

Yours,

Li Jiang

4 . For humans, ignorance (无知) is inevitable (不可避免的) : It's our natural state. There's too much complexity in the world for any individual to master. Ignorance can be frustrating, but the problem is not ignorance itself.    1     .

According to David Dunning, ignorant people don't know how ignorant they are. If you give a group of people a task to do and then ask them how well they think they've done on the task. Poor performers overestimate how well they've done; strong performers often underestimate their performance: This is because those who lack skills also lack the knowledge of what skills they're missing.     2     Those who have skills know what skills they could improve on.

Our ignorance, in general, shapes our lives in ways we do not know about. Put simply, people tend to do what they know and fail to do what they don't know.     3     People fail to reach their potential simply because they are not aware of the possible.

This is a fact of life.     4     We won't miss Disneyland if we don't know it's there. For many expensive things, the less you know about them, the less you'll miss them and the happier you'll be.

    5     If we don't know about birth control, then we won't use it. If we remain ignorant about the horrors that are going on next door, we won't do what's necessary to stop them. And if we are ignorant about the dangerous things our children are getting into, disaster can follow.

A．Ignorance means you have neither.

B．So they think they're pretty good.

C．It’s the trouble we get into by not recognizing it.

D．But ignorance has costs.

E．It's knowledge of possibilities that makes us miss them.

F．We can't choose what we don't know about.

G．In that way, ignorance channels the course we take in life.