tailieunhanh - Toefl preparation for the computer and paper test part 49

Tham khảo tài liệu 'toefl preparation for the computer and paper test part 49', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | PASSAGE TWO Questions 11-21 Clara Barton is well known for her endeavors as a nurse on the battlefield during the Civil War and for her role in founding the American Red Cross. She is perhaps not as well known however for her role in establishing a bureau for tracing missing soldiers following the Civil War. At the close of the Civil War the United States did not have in place any agency responsible for accounting for what had happened to the innumerable men who had served in the military during the war and many families had no idea as to the fate of their loved ones. Families were forced to agonize endlessly over where their loved ones were what kind of shape they were in whether or not they ISA would return and what had happened to them. Clara Barton developed a system for using print media to publish the names of soldiers known to have been wounded or killed during various battles of the Civil War. IE3 She made numerous unsuccessful attempts to interest various government officials in her plan. QQ However it I5B ISC I5D was not until Henry Wilson a senator from the state of Massachusetts took up her cause and presented her plan to President Lincoln that her plan was implemented. ZZ With Lincoln s assistance Clara Barton was set up in a small government office with funding for a few clerks and the authority to examine military records. She and her clerks gathered and compiled information from military records and battlefield witnesses and published it in newspapers and f magazines. Clara Barton operated this missing persons bureau for four years from the end of the war in 1865 until 1869. During this period she and her staff put out more than 100 000 printed lists answered more than 60 000 letters and accounted for more than 20 000 missing soldiers. 11. The purpose of this passage is CD to praise Clara Barton s work as a battlefield nurse CD to outline Clara Barton s role in establishing the American Red Cross CD to malign the role of the . government at the .