Read the following passage about Nellie Bly and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits eac...

Read the following passage about Nellie Bly and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.

Nellie Bly was an American journalist, (18) ____________. She also made the fastest trip around the world.

She was born in 1864 in Pennsylvania, the United States. Her parents named her Elizabeth Jane Cochran.

She started her career in 1885 after writing an angry response to an article called What Girls Are Good For in the Pittsburgh Dispatch. They were impressed and gave her a job. (19) ____________, and that they should have better opportunities. She then used the name Nellie Bly for the rest of her career.

After leaving the Pittsburgh Dispatch, (20) ____________. She finally got a job at the New York World by agreeing to pretend to be mentally unwell to investigate a mental asylum. Her report exposed the asylum’s conditions, and it was forced to improve its patient care. During her career, she wrote about many difficult issues, and most of them are in support of women’s lives.

In 1889, inspired by Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Eighty Days, she took a trip around the world. The idea (21) ____________ because “no one but a man can do this,” but finally her editor agreed. She travelled alone for most of it, an unusual thing for women to do at the time. She actually met Jules Verne in France and completed the trip after 72 days, setting a world record.

In her later years, Nellie Bly returned to journalism. She wrote reports about World War I and problems that impacted women. Nellie Bly died in 1922 at the age of 57. (22) ____________.

(Adapted from i-Learn Smart World)

Question 18.

A. of whom investigative reporting was known best

B. having been known best for her investigative reporting

C. best known for her investigative reporting

D. that got her investigative reporting best known

Question 19.

A. It is her first article that said being married was unnecessary for all women

B. Her first article, in which she claimed that not every woman was required to marry

C. That marriage was not necessary for every woman was stated in her first article

D. In her first article, she argued that not all women needed to get married

Question 20.

A. job opportunities were denied for Nellie as newspapers didn’t want to hire women

B. female employees were rejected, therefore Nellie couldn’t get jobs

C. her application was refused since Nellie was a woman

D. Nellie was rejected from jobs because newspapers wouldn’t hire a woman

Question 21.

A. initially rejected by her newspaper

B. was rejected by her newspaper at first

C. first rejected her an agreement from her newspaper

D. with an initial rejection from her newspaper

Question 22.

A. Her life has inspired dozens of movies, TV series, and books

B. Such was her life that has inspired dozens of movies, TV series, and books

C. Based on her life, dozens of movies, TV series, and books got an inspiration

D. After her death, books on movies, TV series, and books have been inspired