1980年高考英语试题及答案

　　六、阅读理解：阅读下面短文，并根据要求答题。(本题共18分。)

　　In early days no medical(医科的)college took a woman student. Elizabeth Blackwell, however, was determined to become a doctor. The young American wrote again and again to a number of medical colleges, asking if she could be enrolled(录取), but each time the answer was NO.

　　Then one day, to her surprise, she got a letter from the dean(院长)of a college in Geneva(日内瓦), which said YES.

　　At first Geneva College, like the other colleges, was not willing to enrol Liza. But later the important people of that college learned that Liza' s application(申请)had the support of a famous doctor, and they were afraid to offend(得罪)that man.

　　So the dean decided to play a trick by turning the matter over to the students' s general meeting of the college, thinking that the students would be the last to agree to take Liza.

　　When the student body met, most students took no interest in the matter. Of the rest, some considered the young American's idea interesting and some thought by having Liza they could be proud of their college training the world' s first woman doctor. Very soon the students all agreed to accept Elizabeth.

　　The dean of Geneva College was of course very sorry to learn this , but seeing that he could do nothing to keep Elizabeth out, he gave in.

　　A. 根据以上内容完成下列句子。(共8分，每句2分。)

　　1. The young American woman in this story was called

　　or .

　　2. Elizabeth Blackwell' s aim was to .

　　3. The dean of the medical college thought the students' general meeting would not .

　　4. Finally Geneva College had to satisfy both

　　and .

　　B. 在(a)，(b)，(c)三个答案中，选出一个正确的，填在左边的括号内。(共10分，每小题2分。)

　　( )1.Elizabeth was surprised by the dean' s letter, because it promised her to .

　　(a)have free medical education

　　(b)go to Geneva

　　(c)become a student in his college

　　( )2.At first Geneva College to accept Elizabeth.

　　(a)did not consider

　　(b)was not unwilling

　　(c)was willing

　　( )3. When the student body met to consider Elizabeth's application, .

　　(a)most students were serious.

　　(b)the greater part of the students showed no interest in the matter

　　(c)most students took interest in the matter

　　( )4.Some students thought if they let Elizabeth join them they could make .

　　(a)her proud

　　(b)the dean prond

　　(c)Geneva College proud

　　( )5.The dean was very sorry when he saw his trick .

　　(a)work

　　(b)fail

　　(c)succeed