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Mr. Tom Posted 14 years ago
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The name of Florence Nightingale lives...
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Could you please look at this paragraph and the following question? The correct answer is B, but where is the writer saying that her years post Crimean war were more important and more rewarding to Nightingale?
The name of Florence Nightingale lives in the memory of the world by virtue of the heroic adventure of the Crimea. Had she died - as she nearly did - upon her return to England, her reputation would hardly have been different; her legend would have come down to us almost as we know it today - that gentle vision of female virtue which first took shape before the adoring eyes of the sick soldiers at Scutari. Yet, as a matter of fact, she lived for more than half a century after the Crimean War; and during the greater part of that long period all the energy and all the devotion of her extraordinary nature were working at their highest pitch. What she accomplished in those years of unknown labor could, indeed, hardly have been more glorious than her Crimean triumphs; but it was certainly more important. The true history was far stranger even than the myth.
1. According to the author, the work done during the last fifty years of Florence Nightingale's life was, when compared with her work in the Crimea, all of the following except
A. less dramatic
B. less demanding
C. less well-known to the public
D. more important
E. more rewarding to Miss Nightingale herself.
Could you please look at this paragraph and the following question? The correct answer is B, but where is the writer saying that her years post Crimean war were more important and more rewarding to Nightingale?
The name of Florence Nightingale lives in the memory of the world by virtue of the heroic adventure of the Crimea. Had she died - as she nearly did - upon her return to England, her reputation would hardly have been different; her legend would have come down to us almost as we know it today - that gentle vision of female virtue which first took shape before the adoring eyes of the sick soldiers at Scutari. Yet, as a matter of fact, she lived for more than half a century after the Crimean War; and during the greater part of that long period all the energy and all the devotion of her extraordinary nature were working at their highest pitch. What she accomplished in those years of unknown labor could, indeed, hardly have been more glorious than her Crimean triumphs; but it was certainly more important. The true history was far stranger even than the myth.
1. According to the author, the work done during the last fifty years of Florence Nightingale's life was, when compared with her work in the Crimea, all of the following except
A. less dramatic
B. less demanding
C. less well-known to the public
D. more important
E. more rewarding to Miss Nightingale herself.
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Mr. Tom where is the writer saying that her years post Crimean war were more important and more rewarding to Nightingale? " On the second one you have to read between the lines.
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- Tom where is the writer saying that her years post Crimean war were more important and more rewarding to Nightingale?
- " On the second one you have to read between the lines.
- She would not have applied so much energy and devotion to her work had she not found it rewarding.
- There is no literal mention of "rewarding".
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Mr. Tomwhere is the writer saying that her years post Crimean war were more important and more rewarding to Nightingale?More important:
"What she accomplished in those years of unknown labor could, indeed, hardly have been more glorious than her Crimean triumphs; but it was certainly more important."
More rewarding:
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The answer, I think, is D. More important in the point of view of many people which include politicians at that time and their constituents, hospital workers and administrators then and now, academics and today's teachers and historians whose advocacy or even a simple point of interest is sharing Florence Nightingales' enormous accomplishments in life upon her return from her Crimean duty until h
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