Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of 5 with her family. While 【小题1】 (take) care of her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had an interest in medicine. At 18 she married and started a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a doctor. Her husband supported her decision. Unfortunately, Canadian medical schools did not accept women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States 【小题2】(study) medicine at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. 【小题3】 took her five years to earn her medical degree.

Upon graduation, Charlotte returned to Montreal and set up a private clinic. Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, 【小题4】 she was once again a busy doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte found herself operating on damaged limbs and setting broken bones, 【小题5】 delivering all the babies in the area.

But Charlotte had been practising without a license. She had applied for a doctor’s license in both Montreal and Winnipeg, 【小题6】 was refused. The Manitoba College of Medicines, 【小题7】 all-male organization, wanted her to complete her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to leave her patients to spend time studying 【小题8】 she already knew. So in 1887, she appealed to the Manitoba Legislature to issue a license to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte continued to practise 【小题9】 a license until 1912. She died four years later at the age of 73.

In 1993, 77 years after her death, a medical license was issued to Charlotte. This decision 【小题10】(make) by the Manitoba Legislature to honour “this courageous and pioneering woman”.