SAT阅读练习题:Reading Comprehension Test 3_SAT阅读

SAT阅读练习题:Reading Comprehension Test 3

　　Wherever she went, to London or in the country, in the hills　of Derbyshire, or among the rhododendrons at Embley, she was haunted by a ghost. It was the specter of Scutari - the hideous　45 vision of the organization of a military hospital. She would lay that　phantom, or she would perish. The whole system of the　Army Medical Department, the education of the Medical Officer,　the regulations of hospital procedure ... rest? How could she rest　while these things were as they were, while, if the like necessity　50 were to arise again, the like results would follow? And, even in　peace and at home, what was the sanitary condition of the Army?

　　The mortality in the barracks, was, she found, nearly double the　mortality in civil life. You might as well take 1, 100 men every　year out upon Salisbury Plain and shoot them, she said. After　55 inspecting the hospitals at Chatham, she smiled grimly. Yes, this　is one more symptom of the system which, in the Crimea, put to　death 16,000 men. Scutari had given her knowledge; and it had　　given her power too: her enormous reputation was at her back -　an incalculable force. Other work, other duties, might lie before　60 her; but the most urgent, the most obvious, of all was to look to　the health of the Army.