Oseola McCarty spent more than 75 years washing and ironing other people’s clothes. As a laundrywoman, she (1) (pay) only a few dollars each time. Certainly nobody would consider her rich, so they were all (2) (amaze) when Miss McCarty decided to donate $ 150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi.
The money was in fact her life savings. She could save such a large amount of money because she lived (3) very simple life. She never learned to drive, and when she wanted to go somewhere, she just walked. She never (4) (fly) to anywhere till she donated the money，and in 50 years she had been out of the South only once. The house (5) she lived was also a rather modest one her last uncle left her. Only after she became known in America (6) (do) she begin to travel all over the country. Since then, she had been the subject of many interviews and articles and was even invited (7) the White House by the president.
Her (8) (donate) was for students who clearly needed financial help. She herself left school in the sixth grade and had never married (9) had children. She said to the reporters that the idea of helping somebody’s child go to college gave her much (10) (please).