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