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Listening in Passage 1 for great speed at surgery---an important quality at a time when operations were performed without anaesthetic. He was also quick-tempered. When he was working in army hospitals and prisons overseas, the terrible condition often made him very angry. He fought hard against injustice and cruelty and his temper sometimes got him into trouble with the authorities. After a long career overseas he returned to London where he died in 1865. so was this the end of the story? Not quite. When they were preparing his body for his funeral, they discovered James Barry’s secret. HE was in fact a SHE. James Barry was a woman. Listening in Passage 1 No one was more surprised at this discovery than her many friends and colleagues. It was true that throughout her life people had remarked on her small size, slight build and smooth pale face. One officer had even objected to her appointment as a medical assistant because he couldn’t believe that Barry was old enough to have graduated in medicine. But no one seriously suggested that Barry was anything other than a man. So why did James Barry deceive people for so long? At that time, a woman couldn’t study medicine, work as a doctor or join the army. Perhaps Barry had always wanted to do these things and pretending to be a man was the only way to make it possible. Perhaps she was going to tell the truth one day, but didn’t because she was enjoying her Listening in Passage 2 life as a man too much. By the time it was discovered that she was the first woman in Britain to have qualified as a doctor, it was too late for the authorities to do anything about it. ----end---- passage 2 Listening in Passage 2 5. Work in pairs. Take turns to ask and answer the questions. 1 What do you do when you need to see a doctor? 2 Do you need to make an appointment? I just go to the medical centre on campus, join the queue sometimes and then I can see a doctor. No. Normally you just get a registration ticket from th