首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Florence Nightingale is most remembered as a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods. For most of her n
Florence Nightingale is most remembered as a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods. For most of her n
admin
2011-10-20
70
问题
Florence Nightingale is most remembered as a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods. For most of her ninety years, Nightingale pushed for reform of the British military health-care system and with that the profession of nursing started to gain the respect it deserved. Unknown to many, however, was her use of new techniques, of statistical analysis, such as during the Crimean War when she plotted the incidence of preventable deaths in the military. She developed a method to prevent the needless deaths caused by unsanitary conditions and the need for reform. With her analysis, Florence Nightingale revolutionized the idea that social phenomena could be objectively measured and subjected to mathematical analysis. She was an innovator in the collection, interpretation, and display of statistics.
Florence Nightingale’s two greatest life achievements-pioneering of nursing and the reform of hospitals-were amazing considering that most Victorian women of her age group did not attend universities or pursue professional careers. It was her father, William Nightingale, who believed women, especially his children, should get an education. So Nightingale and her sister learned Italian, Latin, Greek, history, and mathematics. She in particular received excellent early preparation in mathematics.
During Nightingale’s time at Scutari, she collected data and systematized record-keeping practices. Nightingale was able to use the data as a tool for improving city and military hospitals. Nightingale’s calculations of the death rate showed that with an improvement of sanitary methods, deaths would decrease. In February, 1855, the death rate at the hospital was 42.7 percent of the cases treated. When Nightingale’s sanitary reform was implemented, the death rate declined. Nightingale took her statistical data and represented them graphically.
As Nightingale demonstrated, statistics provided an organized way of learning and lead to improvements in medical and surgical practices. She also developed a Model Hospital Statistical Form for hospitals to collect and generate consistent data and statistics. She became a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1858 and an honorary member of the American Statistical Association in 1874. Karl Pearson acknowledged Nightingale as a "prophetess" in the development of applied statistics.
What can be inferred about the women living in the same era as Nightingale?
选项
A、They chose to stay at home after graduating from colleges and universities.
B、They tended to choose courses in Italian, Latin, Greek, history and so on.
C、They seldom chose mathematics as their course.
D、They did not have a equal education opportunities with men as they do today.
答案
D
解析
细节题;原文的第二段中有这样一句话women of her age group did not attend universities or pursue professional careers,指出了同时代的其他女性无法接受高等教育和寻求职业发展,D选项正确地认识到了这一点,是本题的答案。A选项忽略了她们不能接受高等教育的事实。B选项也是在默认她们接受高等教育的前提下提出的,这个前提本身就是有问题的,干扰性在于courses in Italian,Latin,Greek,history与原文的信息完全一致,我们需要知道的是,这些课程是同样进入大学接受高等教育的Nightingale的姐妹选择的课程。C选项的错误和B选项是一样的。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ljp4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Theauthoritiesdenied______aplottoassassinatethepresidentlastFriday.
YouborrowedabookfromWangLin,afriendofyours.Unfortunatelyyoulostthebookandcan’tfinditanywhere.Writealetter
FromthefirstthreeparagraphswecanlearnthatAldousHuxley’sremarkimpliesthat
ThefirstsentenceinParagraph1isusedbyAmericanschoolchildrenbecauseWecanlearnfromthepassagethatthenameofth
Inmorethanacenturyofhand-to-handcombatinshops,supermarketaisles,restaurantsandbarsaroundtheworld,Coca-Colahas
Thereisapopularbeliefamongparentsthatschoolsarenolongerinterestedinspelling.NoschoolIhavetaughtinhaseveri
MillionsoffamiliessatdownintheirlivingroomsoneeveninglastAugusttowatchaliveMadonnaConcertfromFrance,telecas
The20thcenturymayhavebeentheageofscientificadvancementbut,asthenewmillenniumbegins,(1)_____worldhealththepr
GregFocker,playedbyBenStiller,representsagenerationofAmericankids(1)_____inthe1980sonthephilosophythatanyac
UncleSam______veryfarwhenherememberedthathehadnottakenhisnotebookwithhim.
随机试题
数控机床故障的常规诊断技术有哪几种方法?
简述员工培训与管理人员培训的方法。
下列关于胃黏膜细胞的叙述,错误的是
腰麻后引起头痛的主要原因为()。
企业()的所得可以免征、减征企业所得税。
个体商户李某于2008年3月8日在本市取得工商营业执照,于同年5月10日办理了税务登记。2009年1月15日,李某因有严重的制假贩假行为被工商行政管理部门吊销了工商执照。李某未办理任何手续,将税务登记证卖给他人后销声匿迹。根据上述资料回答下列问题:李
2013年10月7日至8日,亚太经合组织(APEC)第二十一次领导人非正式会议在()召开,此次系列会议为期一周。
公平交易的条件是:保障质量、价格合理、服务周到。()
(2022年北京市考)小李为某行政机关正式工作人员,因工作失误受到行政处分。小李不可能受到的行政处分是()。
A.stayuptilltheearlyhoursofthemorningB.sleepenoughtobringmostrefreshmentC.rebuildmemoriesstoredduringthed
最新回复
(
0
)