SSC MTS 2022 PYQ — Question 4

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Mahalia Jackson was (1) ______ into a preacher's family in 1911, and she grew up in a riverfront shanty in New Orleans. She was motherless at five, working as a maid and laundress in her mid-teens. As a little girl, she would (2) ______ to herself before she went to sleep, "Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place." In pursuit of that dream, Mahalia migrated to Chicago when she was still a teenager. She never expected to support herself by singing, and by the time I joined her, the hands she used so expressively in her performances had (3) ______ floors, (4) ______ and helped her earn a living as a hotel maid, factory worker, beautician and florist. But her remarkable (5) ______ brought her more and more invitations to singat funerals, in churches, at concerts. And, through her warm friendly personality and a life based on sound spiritual values and hard work, she eventually found her place in Downloaded from cracku.in the sun.