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The woman often called the First Lady of New York died in August. Brooke Astor was one hundred five years old. The extremely wealthy and famous New Yorker spent much of her life            41   (help)the needy in her beloved city.

She was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was the only child of a high level military officer. After two earlier   42  (marry), she married Vincent Astor in 1953 again. He came from a family  43   had been rich for at least one hundred years. Among other things, he owed many buildings in New York City. Brooke Astor became one of the   44   (rich)women in the world when Vincent Astor died. She also became head of a huge charity organization    45  (found) by her husband. He repeatedly had told her she would have fun giving    46   his money. And apparently she did. Missus Astor gave tens of millions of dollars     47  (main)to places and people in New York City. She said it was the sensible choice because that was   48  the money had been made. She gave financial support to the city’s cultural centers，its poor and disabled as  49  as to many other smaller charities. When she died, the mayor of New York said the city would not be what it is today  50   her support.

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