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READING NI1 Test PRACTICE

Read this Biography about Marilyn Monroe. As you read fill in

the gaps with the following words. There are a few extra
words you do not need to use…

as at by find for found from herself like only

to was (x3) were when where (x2) who (x 3) whose which

Probably the most celebrated of all actresses, Marilyn Monroe, 1__________

real name was Norma Jean Mortenson was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles.. Prior
to her birth, Marilyn's father bought a motorcycle and headed north to San Francisco,
abandoning the family in Los Angeles. Marilyn grew up not knowing for sure ____her
father really was. Her mother, Gladys, had entered into several relationships. Afterward,
Gladys gave Norma Jean (Marilyn) the name of Baker, 2 _________ was a boyfriend
she had had before Mortenson. Poverty was a constant companion to Gladys and
Norma. Gladys,_3_________was extremely attractive and worked for RKO Studios
_4__________a film cutter, suffered from mental illness and was in and out of mental
institutions for the rest of her life, and because of that Norma Jean spent time in foster
homes. 5_________ she was nine she was placed in an orphanage _6_________she was
to stay for the next two years.

Upon being released from the orphanage, she went to yet another foster home.
In 1942, at the age of 16, Norma Jean married 21-year-old aircraft plant worker James
Dougherty. The marriage _7_________lasted four years, and they divorced in 1946. By
this time Marilyn began to model swimsuits and bleached her hair blonde. Various shots
made their way into the public eye, where some were eventually seen by RKO Pictures
head Howard Hughes. He offered Marilyn a screen test, but an agent suggested that
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20th Century-Fox would be the better choice for her, since it was a much bigger and
more prestigious studio. She was signed to a contract at $125 per week for a six-month
period and that _8________ increased by $25 per week at the end of that time when her
contract _9_________lengthened.

She owned 200 books (including Tolstoy, Whitman, Milton), listened

_10________Beethoven records, studied acting at the Actors' lab in Hollywood, and
took literature courses at UCLA downtown.

20th Century Fox gave her a contract but let it lapsed a year later. In 1948,
Columbia gave her a six-month contract, turned her over to coach Natasha Lytess and
featured her in the B movie Ladies of the Chorus (1948) in _11_________she sang two
numbers. Joseph L. Mankiewicz saw her in a small part in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
and put her in All About Eve (1950), resulting in 20th Century re-signing her to a
seven-year contract. Niagara (1953) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) launched her
as a sex symbol superstar.

When she went to a supper honoring her The Seven Year Itch (1955) she arrived
in a red chiffon gown borrowed _12_________the studio (she had never owned a
gown). The same year she married and divorced baseball great 'Joe Dimaggio' (their
wedding night was spent in Paso Robles, CA). After The Seven Year Itch (1955), she
wanted serious acting to replace the sexpot image and went to New York's Actors
Studio. She worked with director Lee Strasberg and also underwent psychoanalysis to
learn more about_13__________.

Critics praised her transformation in Bus Stop (1956) and the press
__14_________stunned by her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller. True to form, she
had no veil to match her beige wedding dress so she dyed one in coffee; he wore one of
the two suits he owned. They went to England that autumn,_15_________ she made
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) with Laurence Olivier, fighting with him and
falling further prey to alcohol and pills. Two miscarriages and gynecological surgery
followed. So did an affair with Yves Montand. Work on her last picture The Misfits
(1961), written for her 16_________her husband Miller was interrupted by exhaustion.
She was dropped from the unfinished Something's Got to Give (1962) due to chronic
lateness and drug dependency. Four months later she was_17_______ dead in her
Brentwood home of a drug overdose, adjudged "probable suicide".

ANSWERS
1 whose 2 who 3 who 4 as 5 when 6 where 7 only 8 was 9 was

10 to 11 which 12 from 13 herself 14 was 15 where 16 by 17 found