Word formation
For questions 1-8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.
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Edith Marlow never went to university, yet she became one of the most 1. amateur astronomers of her generation. Her 2. with the night sky began when, at the age of nine, she was given a small telescope by an uncle. With no formal training, she taught herself the mathematics she needed from library books, and her notebooks show remarkable 3.. For years, her observations went largely 4. by professional scientists. That changed in 1962, when she spotted a comet that had been 5. by several observatories. Almost overnight she became something of a 6., although she found the attention 7. and turned down most requests for interviews. She spent her later years encouraging young people, especially girls, to take up astronomy, insisting that curiosity and 8. mattered far more than qualifications.