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湖北省荆门市2018-2019学年高二下学期英语期末考试试卷（含听力音频）
It was a simple letter asking for a place to study at Scotland's oldest university which helped start a revolution in higher education. A 140-year-old letter 1 by a lady calling for her to be allowed to study 2 at St Andrews University has been discovered. Written by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1873, the seven-page document, which 3 the university to allow women to study medicine at the institution, was 4 yesterday on International Women's Day.
The document was discovered 5 in the university archives (档案) by part-time history student Lis Smith, who is completing her PhD at St Andrews University. She said, "We knew that Sophia Jex-Blake and her supporters, in their effort to 6 university medical education for women, had written to the Senatus Academicus(校评议委员会) 7 to gain permission to attend classes there, 8 we didn't know documentary evidence existed. While 9 the archives for information about the university's higher certificate for women, I was astonished to 10 what must be the very letter Jex-Blake wrote".
In the letter, Sophia and her supporters offered to hire teachers or build suitable buildings for a medical school. Although her letter was not 11, it finally 12 the establishment of the Ladies Literate in Arts at St Andrews, a distance-learning degree for women. The qualification gave women 13 to university education in the days 14 they were admitted as students. It was so popular that it 15 long after women were admitted as 16 students to St Andrews in 1892.
Ms Jex-Blake went on to help 17 the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874. She was 18 by the University of Berne, where she was awarded a medical degree in January 1877.
19, she moved back to Edinburgh and 20 her own practice.
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