In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in
each blank.
Can you (1) ______ a deaf woman writing stories about a war? Well, Laura Redden Searing did this. Moreover, she went to foreign
countries to write stories. She was very ill when she was 11 years old. Because of this, she lost her (2) ______. She went to the Missouri
School for the Deaf. Laura was 19 years old when she went to work for a newspaper. She wrote about people, places and art. In 1859,
most women were just wives and (3) ______. They did not work outside the home; otherwise, their husbands would be angry. Due to this
feeling, Laura used a (4) ______ name when she wrote her stories. She called herself Howard Glyndon. She thought that unless she used
a masculine name, people would be (5) ______ since they did not think that women should write for newspapers.