专业八级改错练习 第52期

Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and emigrated from London to New York City when she　was ten year's old. One day, she decided that she wanted __1

to be a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman　in the middle of the nineteenth century. Before writing __2

 many letters seeking an admission to medical school, she __3

was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. Therefore __4

determined she was that she taught in school and gave __5

music lessons to earn money for her tuition.
In 1849,until graduating from medical school, she decided __6

to farther her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon, __7

 but a serious eye infection forced her to abandon the idea.Upon returning to the US, she found difficult to start her __8

own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, managed to open a new hospital,the first for woman and children. Besides being the first __9

female physician and found her own hospital, she also __10

established the first medical school for women.