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| Last month, Xian Jishu, a nurse from Chongqing Southwest Hospital, won Nightingale Awards (南丁格尔奖章). She is the first nurse who won it in Chongqing. Nurses in Chongqing are all 1. of her. Who is Nightingale? Florence Nightingale was the first great 2. in the world. She was 3. in a rich family on May 12, 1820. She was very kind-hearted and enjoyed 4. others, especially people who were 5. . She thought that helping patients was 6. a duty and a pleasure. So she decided to be a nurse when she was 24. But her parents didn't agree. Her family had lots of money, so they thought it was not necessary for her to work. Besides, nurses were not well respected (尊重) at that time. But Nightingale didn't change her mind. She believed that she would 7. her dream. Later she went to Germany and France to learn to be a nurse. 8. that time there were no nursing schools. So she had to learn a lot of nursing knowledge by practicing. During the war she went to the front hospitals to look after soldiers. She used her 9. money to buy clothes, beds, medicine and food for the patients. After the war, Nightingale opened the world's first nursing school. In 1910, she died quietly in her sleep at the age of 90. Her 10. made people sad. In 1974, her birthday became International Nurses Day because of the great love and help she gave to people. |