3. The author concludes this passage with a tone of________.

　　A. confidence and optimism

　　B. disappointment and disapproval

　　C. uncertainty and humor

　　D. confusion and sympathy

　　参考答案1—3、BDC

　　阅读理解2016·山东省济南市高三巩固性训练More men are finding their calling as nurses.

　　A new study from the United States Census Bureau reports the number of male nurses has doubled since the 1970s.Back then，about 2.7 percent of registered nurses were men.The new study，which tracked data through 2011，finds that men now make up 9.6 percent of all employed nurses in the United States—about 330,000 men in total.Recent years of shortages have led to increased efforts，according to the report，which included recruiting men into the field.

　　Men，in fact，had been largely kept out of nursing in past decades because nursing schools often refused to admit men.The Supreme Court ruled that practice unconstitutional in 1981 after a case involving a state nursing school.

　　“The relatively high wages and expanding job opportunities make this

　　field

　　attractive，offering stability even

　　during recessions (经济衰退)，” wrote the report’s author，Liana Christin Landivar of the US Census Bureau.“And because of high demand，nursing has low unemployment rates compared to other fields.”

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