阅读理解-专项阅读练习.docx

考研英语每日一课（阅读理解-专项阅读练习） 阅读理解-专项阅读练习 Passage 1 Before the 1870s, trained nurses were virtually unknown in the United States. Hospital nursing was an unskilled occupation, taken up by women of the lower classes, some of whom were conscripted from the penitentiary or the almshouse. The movement for