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請回答第 56 題至第 60 題：Through the 1800s as professional police departments grew around the United States, women held few positions.Mostly, women served as prison workers taking care of female inmates. Then in 1909 social worker and minister AliceStebbins Wells pressed Los Angeles to establish a new city ordinance allowing female policewomen. With the supportof some influential people, the ordinance was quickly adopted and on September 12, 1910, Wells became the firstfemale policewoman with arrest powers in America. She received a badge, a key to telephone call boxes, a rule book,and a first aid book. Wells even designed and made some of her own tailored uniforms.The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) assigned Wells to patrol public recreation places women andchildren frequented, such as skating rinks, dance halls, and movie theaters. By October 1912 two other women wereadded to the staff. By 1916 sixteen other U.S. cities and several foreign countries had hired female police officers. By1937 the LAPD employed thirty-nine policewomen and their duties expanded to criminal investigations in addition topatrol.Pressing onward, Wells helped organize the International Policewoman's Association in 1915 and founded theWomen's Peace Officers Association of California in 1928. In 1914, she was the subject of a biographical film entitledThe Policewoman. The University of California created the first course dedicated to the work of female police officersin 1918. After 30 years of service, she retired in 1940 and died in 1957.
【題組】56 What was the first paragraph mainly about?
(A) Why Ms. Well wanted to be a police officer.
(B) How Ms. Wells became a police officer.
(C) What it was like to be a police officer in the 1800s.
(D) Whom Ms. Wells would turn to when she needed help.

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答案：B
難度：適中0.6
統計：A(1),B(15),C(7),D(2),E(0)

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到十九世紀，由於專業警察部門在美國各地成長，婦女幾乎沒有任何職位。大多數情況下，婦女擔任監獄工作人員照顧女囚犯。然後在1909年，社會工作者和部長愛麗絲·史蒂賓斯·威爾斯（Alice Stebbins Wells）壓制洛杉磯，制定新的城市法令，允許女警察。在一些有影響力的人民的支持下，該條例被迅速採用，並於1910年9月12日威爾斯成為美國第一位具有逮捕權力的女警官。她收到了一個徽章，一個電話亭的鑰匙，一本規則書和一本急救書。威爾斯甚至設計和製作了一些自己的定制制服。洛杉磯警察署（LAPD）指派威爾斯巡視公共娛樂場所，經常光顧的溜冰場，舞廳和電影院等婦女和兒童。到1912年10月，另外還有兩名婦女加入了工作人員。到1916年，美國十六個...