听力训练Exercise
1. Who couldn't be admitted into medical college in early days?
2. Why did the college in Geneva accept Liza?
3. What did the president of Genera College do when Liza was accepted?
4. Elizabeth Blackwell was to become a doctor. The young American again and again to a number of medical , asking if she could be , but each time the answer was NO.
5. The decided to play a trick by turning the matter over to the students's meeting of the college, that the students would be the last to take Liza.
6. When the student body met, most students took no in the matter. Of the rest, some the young American's idea and some thought by having Liza they would be of their college training the world’ s first woman doctor.

Background Information 背景信息
1849年以前，医学院是不接受女性的，人们认为，只有男性才有资格当医生。世界上第一位女医生是美国的伊丽莎白•布莱克韦尔，这位在英国出生的女性，20岁时才决心学医，可没有一家医学院批准她入学，但她没有因此而泄气，终于进入了一家不出名的因学院就读，1849年她以优异成绩攻取了医学博士学位，成为世界上第一位女医生。

Words & Phrases 词汇与短语
Words 词汇
admit 接纳，承认
application 申请，请求
Geneva 日内瓦
offend 冒犯，得罪
willing 乐意的，心甘情愿的

Phrases 短语
give in 屈服
play a trick 耍诡计
to one's surprises 另某人惊讶的是
take no interest in... 对......不感兴趣 参考答案
1. Women.
2. Because they were afraid to offend a famous doctor.
3. He could do nothing. He gave in.
4. determined, wrote, colleges, admitted
5. president, general, thinking, agree to
6. interest, considered, interesting, proud 听力原文

The First Woman Doctor

In early days no medical(医科的)college took a woman student. Elizabeth Blackwell 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 president of a college in Geneva(日内瓦), which said YES.

At first Geneva College, like the other colleges, was not willing to enroll 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.

So the president decided to play a trick by turning the matter over to the students’ 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 president of Geneva College was of course very sorry to learn this, seeing that he could do nothing to keep Elizabeth out, he gave in. 参考译文
第一位女医生
以前，医学院从不招收女学生。伊丽莎白•布莱克韦尔却立志要成为一名医生。这位年轻的美国人一封又一封地给许多医学院写信，询问可否招她入学，但每次得到的都是否定的答案。

有一天，她很意外地收到来自日内瓦一所学院的院长来信，这次的答案是肯定的。

最初日内瓦学院和其他学院一样，不愿意接受丽莎。但后来该学院的重要人物得知丽莎的申请得到了一位著名医生的支持，他们不好得罪。

所以院长决定耍诡计，把事情交给学院学生大会，认为学生是最不可能同意接受丽莎的。

会议上，大部分学生对这件事情毫无兴趣。剩下的学生中有一些人认为这位年轻美国人的想法很有趣。还有些人认为如果接受丽莎，他们会为自己的学院培养出全世界第一位女性医生而感到很骄傲。不久全部学生都同意接收丽莎。

日内瓦学院院长听到这个消息当然很感到很遗憾。他明白自己已经无能为力，只好让步。