Comprehension Passage
Direction: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Wilma Rudolph was (1)________ first American woman (2)________three gold medals in Olympics. She was born (3)________ in Tennessee in 1940. The bulk of her childhood was spent in bed. She suffered (4)________ pneumonia and scarlet fever. Soon she became (5)________of the polio virus.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank 3.
1
preliminary
2
pre-eminently
3
prematurely
4
preaxially