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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.
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.

參考答案

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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