Directions: There is a passage with 10 blanks, please read it carefully and select one word from the word bank below to fill in the blanks appropriately. scolded devices admission victims respectable miserable took treated illiterate fell charge educated choices approval fees There are always two 1) _________ in life, either put up with the conditions as they are, or take the responsibility to change them. It happened when I was at my father’s clinic whilst he was out of town. A lady named Saraswati came with her one year old daughter. The baby was burning with high fever and I 2) _________her for not bringing the baby in any earlier. The lady started crying, saying she did not have the money for the doctor’s 3) _________ and medication. Saraswati had got married three years ago; her parents paid a dowry of 10,000 rupees. However, her husband ran away with the money, leaving her pregnant. Saraswati returned to her home and 4) _________ on the job of a servant. Her husband’s family did not care about whether her daughter was sick or well since she was a girl. I did not 5) _________ Saraswati, but I knew this would not solve her problem. I thought about her all night and wondered what could be done to help these 6) _________, cheated and downtrodden women. The next day I received a call from my aunty who needed a housemaid. I felt as if God had showed me a way to help Saraswati. I recommended her to my aunty and she was given a good income and a good home to live in. Then one sunny morning when I was having coffee, a group of women came to my house (guided by the ever so dear Saraswati). Everybody had a common story, cheated, exploited and dowry 7) _________. I recommended them to domestic maid jobs. Now these ladies are independent and all are working hard to live a 8) _________ life. I may have not been successful but when one day Saraswati came to my home with a box of sweets because she had got 9) _________ for her daughter at a nearby school, she 10) _________ to my feet and said: you have given my daughter and me a respectable living, may God give you much success. I realized I had done nothing I just showed them a way – a way to self-respect and thereafter, they all continued this tough journey themselves.