ACCORDING TO THE TEXT, WOMEN IN THE 21ST CENTURY ________. A. SPEN...

Câu 41: According to the text, women in the 21

century ________.

A. spend less than 12 hours working outside the home and doing housework

B. get help from their husbands with all housework

C. do not have to do housework any more

D. are still the victims of family violence in some rural areas

Read the following passage and Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the

correct answer to each of the questions from 42 to 48:

In 1812 a young man called James Barry finished his studies in medicine at Edinburgh University. After

graduating he moved to London where he studied surgery at Guy’s Hospital. After that the popular young

doctor joined the army and over the next forty years had a brilliant career as an army medical officer,

working in many far-off countries and fighting successfully for improved conditions in hospitals. It was a

remarkable career - made even more remarkable by the discovery upon his death that he was in fact a

she, James Barry was a woman.

No one was more surprised at this discovery than her many friends and colleagues. It was true that

throughout her life people had remarked upon her small size, slight build and smooth pale face. One

officer had even objected to her appointment as a medical assistant because he could not believe that

Barry was old enough to have graduated in medicine. But no one had ever seriously suggested that Barry

was anything other than a man.

By all accounts Barry was a pleasant and good-humoured person with high cheekbones, reddish hair, a

long nose and large eyes. She was well-liked by her patients and had a reputation for great speed in

surgery - an important quality at a time when operations were performed without anaesthetic. She was

also quick tempered. When she was working in army hospitals and prisons overseas, the terrible

conditions often made her very angry. She fought hard against injustice and cruelty and her temper

sometimes got her into trouble with the authority. After a long career overseas, she returned to London

where she died in 1865. While the undertaker’s assistant was preparing her body for burial, she

discovered that James Barry was a woman.

So why did James Barry deceive people for so long? At that time a woman could not study medicine,

work as a doctor or join the army. Perhaps Barry had always wante to do these things and pretending

to be a man was the only way to make it possible. Perhaps she was going to tell the truth one day, but

didn’t because she was enjoying her life as a man too much. Whatever the reason, Barry's deception was

successful. By the time it was discovered that she had been the first woman in Britain to qualify as a

doctor, it was too late for the authorities to do anything about it.