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Nowadays, with women playing an ever-increasing role in all kinds of careers and professions, it is difficult to understand that there was a time when no medical school would accept a woman. They all said that only a man could be a doctor. An American, Elizabeth Blackwell, was determined to become the first woman doctor in the world. After a great deal of delay and opposition, she received, to her great surprise, a letter from the Dean of Geneva College informing her that she had been accepted.

Much later, Elizabeth discovered what had actually happened when her application had been received by the College authorities. None of them wanted to have a woman student, but they did not wish to offend the influential Philadelphia doctor who had recommended her, so they hit on the expedient of turning the decision over to the students' general meeting. They were quite certain that this would result in this alarming idea being turned down. But when the student body met, many of them thought it would be amusing to be the only medical college in the country which could boast that it was training some sort of Amazon as a woman doctor. Some genuinely believed that women should be treated equally, while others thought of the whole thing as a joke. So the vote in favor was carried unanimously, and the college authorities found, with dismay, that they would now have to admit Elizabeth.

A few days after receiving the notification of her acceptance, Elizabeth was on the train for the two-day journey to Geneva College.

1．It is unbelievable that in the past____.

A．there were no medical schools

B．there were no good women doctors

C．a medical school would accept a woman student

D．a woman medical student could become a doctor

2．Elizabeth Blackwell____.

A．already knew that her application would be approved

B．had never expected that she would be admitted

C．never doubted that she would become a medical student

D．always doubted the fact that she became a medical student

3．Why were students asked to decide on Elizabeth's application?

A．Because the college was democratic.

B．Because all the policy was decided by students in that college.

C．Because students were more fair than the authorities.

D．Because the college authorities believed that man students would not accept Blackwell, meanwhile they would not offend the recommender.

4．“Unanimously”（Line 9, Para. 2）means____.

A．not the same

B．not agreed

C．not-in the same way

D．all agree

5．The students agreed to accept Elizabeth Blackwell as a fellow student____.

A．for some reason untold

B．they believed in equality of the sexes

C．so as not to offend the authorities

D．because they thought it would be amusing

1．【答案】C

【精析】文章第一段“it is difficult to understand that there was a time when no medical school would accept a woman.”其中it is difficult to understand = it is unbelievable，可同义替换。故C项正确。

2．【答案】B

【精析】由文章第一段最后一句话“After a great deal of delay and opposition, she received, to her great surprise, a letter from the Dean of Geneva College informing her that she had been accepted.”可知，Elizabeth对她自己收到录取通知书也很吃惊，这说明她从未想到自己能被录取。故B项对。

3．【答案】D

【精析】由文章第二段“but they did not wish to offend the influential Philadelphia doctor who had recommended her, so they hit on the expedient of turning the decision over to the students' general meeting”可推测，学院权威人士碍于面子无法拒收Elizabeth，他们就将这个难题交由学生来处理，他们认为至少男同学会反对录用女性成为他们中的一员，谁知结果恰恰相反。可知D项正确。

4．【答案】D

【精析】文中unanimously之前用了some...while others这样的句式，故选D项。

5．【答案】A

【精析】根据文章第二段“Some genuinely believed that women should be treated equally, while others thought of the whole thing as a joke.”可得出答案。此题B项和D项各说对了一个方面，只有A项更全面，故选A项。