| 阅读理解。 |
Florence Nightingale was born in a rich family in England. When she was young, she took lessons in
music and drawing, and read many great books. She also traveled a lot with her parents.
As a child she felt that visiting sick people was both a duty and a pleasure. She enjoyed helping
them.
At last she decided that she was going to be a nurse. But her father said, "Nursing isn' t the right job for a lady. "
"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 women.
In the Crimean War in 1854, she went with a group of thirty-eight nurses to the front hospitals. What
they saw there was terrible.
Florence used her own money and some from her friends to buy clothes, beds, medicines and food for the men. Her only pay was the smiles of' the wounded (受伤的) soldiers. But they were more than
enough for this kind woman.
Florence died at ninety. She tried to serve others through her work as a nurse all her life. Thanks to her contributions to medicine, we realize nurses do an important and necessary job. |
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| 1. Where was Florence born? |
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| 2. When she was a child, what did Florence love to do? |
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| 3. What does the underlined word "they"nean? |
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| 4. How old was Florence when she died? |
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