第二节 完型填空 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。 As late as 1800, women's only place was in the home. The idea of women in the 【B1】 world was unthinkable. No 'nice' woman would dream of 【B2】 what was strictly a 'man' s world'. Even if she could, what would she do? Teaching was the first profession (职业) 【B3】 to women soon after 1800. But even that was not an 【B4】 profession for women to enter because most high schools and colleges were open only to 【B5】 . Oberlin Colleges in Ohio was the first college in America to 【B6】 women. Hospital nursing became 【B7】 work for women only after Florence Nightingale became 【B8】 . Because she was a wealthy and educated woman, as well as a 【B9】 , people began to believe it was 【B10】 for women to care for the sick and still be 'ladies'. Miss Nightingale opened England's first training school 【B11】 nurses in 1860. The invention of the typewriter in 1867 【B12】 to bring women out of the 【B13】 and into the business world. Because women had quick 【B14】 , they learned to operate typewriter quickly and 【B15】 . Businessmen found that they had to 【B16】 women for this 【B17】 kind of work. By 1990 thousands of women were working at 【B18】 jobs in schools, hospitals, and offices in both England and America. Some women even 【B19】 to become doctors or lawyers. The 【B20】 that 'nice' women could work in the business world had been accepted. 【B1】 A．future B．present C．business D．English-speaking
A. B. C. D. 【B1】 A．future B．present C．business D．English-speaking