Bette Nesmith Graham was a single mother who lived in Texas. She was an artist, but found it  31   to support herself and her son. So in 1951, at the age of 17, she learned shorthand and typing, and got a job as a  32  .

At that time, typewriters used a carbon film ribbon(打字机色带),and it was hard to correct typing  33   on the paper. Graham found a  34   way. She decided that she would do what painters did to  35   their mistakes - paint over them. She took her water-based paint to work,  36   a brush. She always made sure the paint matched the  37   of paper she was typing on.

Her boss never  38   the mistakes. When another secretary asked for some of her  39   correcting liquid, Graham found a bottle at home, wrote "Mistake Out" on a label, and gave it to her.  40   all the other secretaries in the building wanted some, too.

By 1956, Graham’s invention became so  41   that she turned her kitchen into a laboratory and made bottles of “Mistake Out” using her electric mixer. When  42   grew, Graham changed the name of “Mistake Out” to “Liquid Paper” and  43   a patent and trademark

By 1975, the company Liquid Paper  44   200 people, and was quite successful. Graham  45   the company four years later to Gillette for  46   $ 50 million.

In the late 1970s, Bette Graham  47   the Bette Clair McMurray Foundation to help women. She described herself  48   a “someone who wants freedom for  49   and everybody else.” She died on May 12, 1980, and left a huge  50   to be divided between her son and the foundation.

31.A. tough              B. simple        C. possible            D. easy

32.A. manager            B. writer            C. secretary          D. painter

33.A. signs           B. letters         C. mistakes      D. words

34.A. cleaner          B. better        C. wider        D. smoother

35.A. cross out         B. get out       C. throw away     D. cover up

36.A. instead of         B. because of      C. along with     D. away with

37.A. size           B. color          C. pattern       D. quality

38.A. noticed          B. remembered     C. made        D. presented

39.A. special          B. clever       C. direct           D. famous

40.A. Late           B. Soon        C. Lately        D. Nowadays

41.A. suitable         B. popular      C. bright        D. effective

42.A. number         B. damage      C. complaint      D. demand

43.A. applied for        B. stand for      C. look for          D. pay for

44.A. served          B. interviewed    C. fired         D. employed

45.A. enlarge          B. change       C. sold            D. devoted

46.A. merely         B. nearly          C. hardly       D. wholly

47.A. took over        B. put off       C. turned down    D. set up

48.A. as           B. into          C. like          D. of

49.A. oneself         B. ourselves        C. herself         D. yourselves

50.A. fortune         B. position        C. company     D. quantity

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