Nellie Bly - Review 6

C2 Proficiency · Multiple Choice Cloze · Close-up C2, National Geographic Learning

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

annals

histories

memorials

records

dishonor

rumour

shame

scandal

narrative

register

chronicle

archive

post

column

discourse

contribution

distribution

flow

spread

circulation

much

strongly

ever

age

author

reporter

editor

correspondent

indigenous

ethnic

original

homegrown

In the (1) ___ of investigative journalism, American Nellie Bly holds a special place. She earned acclaim in 1887 for her expose on the conditions of asylum patients at a New York City institution. In order to uncover the (2) ___ , she impersonated a mental patient for ten days. In so doing, she pioneered undercover reporting and her (3) ___ of the abuses suffered by the inmates led to much-needed reforms. Bly's career began when she submitted a response to a (4) ___ published in The Pittsburg Dispatch -- a leading newspaper with a huge (5) ___ . The writer of the piece had expressed the (6) ___ -held belief that a woman's place was in the home. Bly, outraged by the sexism, sent a spirited letter which impressed the editor, who offered her a position. She later became the paper's foreign (7) ___ in Mexico where she reported on the everyday lives of the (8) ___ people. She also undertook a trip around the world to beat Phileas Fogg, the fictional hero in Around the World in Eighty Days. Travelling by ship, train and donkey, she completed the journey in 72 days.

Nellie Bly

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