填空题

Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
In colonial times women provided health care for their families and neighbors. Doctors were often not 47 , and at that time they had not learned to cure many of the illnesses that we often go to a doctor for today. So women usually cared for the sick in their homes. Women did the work of both nurses and midwives, caring for people when they were sick and 48 babies.
Women also provided 49 medical services in the wars that our country was involved in. Women cared for wounded soldiers in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Their 50 work was the real beginning of modern nursing practices. Doctors became more 51 of the work clone by nurses after seeing the skill that they used to treat the wounded soldiers. Training for nurses became more 52 available after the Civil War.
By the middle of the 1800’s, hospitals were being built to treat the sick and injured. The American Medical Association was also formed to 53 medical care. Medical schools trained doctors in modern medical practices. As hospitals became more widespread, the role of women in medicine 54 for a while. At first medical schools were only for men, and people began to look down on female nurses and midwives who did not have medical 55 . Now many people preferred to be treated by a 56 doctor in a hospital.
A) valuable F) wartime K) female
B) deliberately G) control L) schooling
C) delivering H) regulate M) accepting
D) reception I) male N) inclined
E) readily J) available O) declined