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1、 G M A T GMAT - GMAT 1)Two recent publications offer different assessment of thecareer of the famous British nurse Florence Nightingale.( currency1 “ fi fl “ )Abook by Anne Summers ( )seeks to debunk(” )the idealizations and present areality(” )at odds with Nightingales heroic reputation.According t
2、o Summers, Nightingales importance during theCrimean War() has beenexaggerated(” ): not until near the wars end didshe become supervisor of the female nurses. Additionally, ( )Summers writes that the contribution of the nurses to therelief of the wounded was at best marginal. The prevailingproblems
3、of military medicine were caused by armyorganizaitonal pratices, and the addition of a few nurses to themedical staff could be no more than symbolic. Nightingalesplace in the national pantheon, Summers asserts, is lrgely due tothe propagandistic efforts of contemporary newspaperreporters.( )2)By con
4、trast( / ), theeditors ( )of a new volume of Nightingales lettersview Nightingale as a person who significantlyinfluenced(” ) not only her own age but also subsequenctgenerations. They highlight her ongoing efforts to reformsanitary conditions after thewar( during the Crimean War “ ). Forexample,( p
5、eacetimeliving conditions “for example “ ) when she leanred that peacetime living conditions inBritish barracks were so horrible that the death rate of enlistedmen far exeeded that of neighboring civilian populations, shesucceeded in persuading the government to establish a RoyalCommission on the He
6、alth of the Army. She used sums raisedthrough public contributions to found a nurses traning hospitalin London. Even in administrative matters, the editors assert, herpractical intelligence was formidable: as recently as 1947 theBritish Armys medical services were still using thecost-accounting syst
7、em she had devised in the1860s.( )3)I believe that the evidence of her letters supports(” )continued respect for Nightingales brilliance andcreativity(” ) ( )Whencounseling a village schoolmaster to encourage children to usetheir faculties of observation, she sounds like a modern educator.Her insist
8、ence on classifying the problems of the needy in orderto devise appropriate treatments is similar to the approach ofmodern social workers.( ) Insum( fl 细 处 ), although(让步 “让步 )Nightingale may not haveachieved all of her goals during the Crimean War, her breadth ofvision and ability to realize ambitious projects haveearned(” ) her an eminent(” ) place among theranks of socialpioneers.( 作者 两个 同”述)述“GMAT 帮助 更好地备 GMAT 试
