标题: prep12的一篇阅读，题目想和大家讨论 [打印本页] 作者: cheesencat 时间: 2013-8-19 23:47 标题: prep12的一篇阅读，题目想和大家讨论 [size=9.000000pt]Two recent publications offer different assessments of the career of the famous British nurseFlorence Nightingale. A book by Anne Summers seeks to debunk the idealizations andpresent a reality at odds with Nightingale's heroic reputation. According to Summers,Nightingale's importance during the Crimean War has been exaggerated: not until near thewar's end did she become supervisor of the female nurses. Additionally, Summers writes thatthe contribution of the nurses to the relief of the wounded was at best marginal. Theprevailing problems of military medicine were caused by army organizational practices, andthe addition of a few nurses to the medical staff could be no more than symbolic.[size=9.000000pt]Nightingale’s place in the national pantheon, Summers asserts, i[size=9.000000pt]s largely due to thepropagandistic efforts of contemporary newspaper reporters.
[size=9.000000pt]By contrast, the editors of a new volume of Nightingale's letters view Nightingale as a personwho significantly influenced not only her own age but also subsequent generations. Theyhighlight her ongoing efforts to reform sanitary conditions after the war. For example, whenshe learned that peacetime living conditions in British barracks were so horrible that thedeath rate of enlisted men far exceeded that of neighboring civilian populations, shesucceeded in persuading the government to establish a Royal Commission on the Health of[size=9.000000pt]the Army. She used sums raised through public contributions to found a nurses’ [size=9.000000pt]traininghospital in London. Even in administrative matters, the editors assert, her practicalintelligence was formidable: as recently as 1947 the British Army's medical services were stillusing the cost-accounting system she had devised in the 1860's.
[size=9.000000pt]I believe that the evidence of her letters supports continued respect for Nightingale'sbrilliance and creativity. When counseling a village schoolmaster to encourage children to usetheir faculties of observation, she sounds like a modern educator. Her insistence on classifying the problems of the needy in order to devise appropriate treatments is similar tothe approach of modern social workers. In sum, although Nightingale may not have achievedall of her goals during the Crimean War, her breadth of vision and ability to realize ambitiousprojects have earned her an eminent place among the ranks of social pioneers.
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[size=9.000000pt]The passage suggests which of the following about Nightingale’s relationship with the British[size=9.000000pt]public of her day?
She was highly respected, her projects receiving popular and governmental support.
She encountered resistance both from the army establishment and the general public.
She was supported by the working classes and opposed by the wealthier classes.
She was supported by the military establishment but had to fight the governmental
bureaucrat.
After initially being received with enthusiasm, she was quickly forgotten.
答案给的D，我非常怀疑，应该选A吧
PREP2012-Pack1-RC-003-05 VRC07619-05 Medium In the last paragraph, the author is primarily concerned with
summarizing the arguments about Nightingale presented in the first two paragraphs
refuting the view of Nightingale's career presented in the preceding paragraph
analyzing the weaknesses of the evidence presented elsewhere in the passage
citing evidence to support a view of Nightingale’s career
correcting a factual error occurring in one of the works under review 这道答案是C，我觉得D也挺对的，但是好像也不是全然同意第二个观点（letter那个），因为第二个观点完全就在表扬了，但是作者还是觉得南丁格尔有一些flaw
