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There was a pet store and the owner had a parrot. One day a ___11___ walked in and the parrot said to the man, ¡°Hey you!¡±The man said, ¡°What!?¡±The parrot said, ¡°Your ___12___ is really ugly.¡±The man got very ___13___ and went to the store owner and said, ¡°Your bird just ___14___ my wife. It said she was ugly.¡±ª¥

The owner stormed over, ___15___ the bird, took it into the ¡°black room,¡±shook it a bit, ___16___ out a few feathers, and said, ¡°Don¡¯t ever, ever say anything to ___17___ my customers again. You got that!!!¡±ª¥

With that ___18___ he took the bird and put it back into its cage. The old bird shook out its ___19___ and relaxed in its cage. A couple of weeks ___20___ and in walked this guy and his wife again. The parrot said, ¡°Hey you!¡±The guy said, ¡°What!?¡± The parrot answered, ¡°You know that.¡±

11. A. group             B. team                     C. couple                  D. crowd

12. A. wife               B. sister                    C. mother                 D. daughter

13. A. curious           B. nervous                C. guilty                   D. angry

14. A. greeted           B. puzzled                 C. offended               D. scared

15. A. hugged           B. seized                   C. trained                 D. rescued

16. A. sent                B. handed                 C. pulled                  D. dug

17. A. touch              B. amuse                   C. cheat                    D. embarrass

18. A. warning          B. comment              C. suggestion            D. request

19. A. eyes                B. feathers                C. fur                       D. skin

20. A. lasted              B. arrived                 C. appeared               D. passed

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Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of five with her family. While ___21___ her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(n) ___22___ in medicine. At 18 she married and ___23___ a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a ___24___. Her husband supported her decision. ª¥

___25___, Canadian medical schools did not ___26___ women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study ___27___ at the Women¡¯s Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to ___28___ her medical degree. ª¥

Upon graduation, Charlotte ___29___ to Montreal and set up a private ___30___. Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a ___31___ doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte ___32___ herself operating on damaged limbs and setting ___33___ bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area. ª¥

But Charlotte had been practising without a licence. She had ___34___ a doctor¡¯s licence in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was ___35___. The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to ___36___ her studies at a Canadian medical college!Charlotte refused to ___37___ her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887, she appealed to the Manitoba Legislature to ___38___ a licence to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte ___39___ to practise without a licence until 1912. She died four years later at the age of 73. ª¥

In 1993, 77 years after her ___40___, a medical licence was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor ¡°this courageous and pioneering woman.¡±

21. A. raising            B. teaching                C. nursing                 D. missing

22. A. habit               B. interest                 C. opinion                D. voice

23. A. invented          B. selected                C. offered                 D. started

24. A. doctor             B. musician               C. lawyer                  D. physicist

25. A. Besides           B. Unfortunately        C. Otherwise             D. Eventually

26. A. hire                B. entertain               C. trust                     D. accept

27. A. history            B. physics                 C. medicine              D. law

28. A. improve          B. save                     C. design                  D. earn

29. A. returned          B. escaped                 C. spread                  D. wandered

30. A. school             B. museum                C. clinic                   D. lab

31. A. busy               B. wealthy                C. greedy                  D. lucky

32. A. helped            B. found                   C. troubled               D. imagined

33. A. harmful          B. tired                     C. broken                 D. weak

34. A. put away         B. taken over             C. turned in              D. applied for

35. A. punished         B. refused                 C. blamed                 D. fired

36. A. display            B. change                  C. preview                D. complete

37. A. leave              B. charge                  C. test                      D. cure

38. A. sell                 B. donate                  C. issue                    D. show

39. A. continued        B. promised              C. pretended             D. dreamed

40. A. birth               B. death                    C. wedding               D. graduation