Direction: Read the passage and fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.

Helen Keller was deaf and blind from the time she was a baby. At first, no one (1)______ she would be (2)______ of learning anything, but by the (3)______ she was six years old, (4)______ parents decided they would engage a teacher for her. (5)______, the teacher, Miss Sullivan, had trouble controlling the child.