Several years ago, my company experienced a slowdown in business. We hoped that it was only___21___.

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Several years ago, my company experienced a slowdown in business. We hoped that it was only___21___.We had work enough for only four days of the week. So we decided that we would___22___from Monday to Thursday, and take Fridays to do___23___projects in our hometown.
One day, we went to a very old gentleman's___24___to do a total cleanup. When we arrived, an elderly woman___25___us at the door. We thought she was the wife, but it turned out she was the___26___.She was 75, and her father 97! Soon, we began to clean the house and the yard. It was___27___how much work a group could get done when everyone was working___28___ .That gentleman's house went from dirt to a sparkling clean palace by the time we finished.
The thing I most remember about that day,___29___was not the great cleaning job that we did, but something___30___When we walked into the house, I noticed the wonderful drawings that___31___the walls. The daughter told us that her father had painted them, and that he hadn't ___32___art until he was 80 years old. I was shocked: these drawings were works of art that could have easily been hanging in a museum. At the time, I was in my early 30s and wanted to do something that would___33___my creative and artistic competence more than being president of a company would___34___I had felt that it was too difficult to make a change at this "advanced" stage of my life. Boy! My___35___belief system got expanded that afternoon!
21 A. temporary B. easy C. proper D. impossible
22. A. rest B. play C. start D. work
23. A. research B. service C. design D. class
24. A. company B. house C. office D. room
25. A. showed B. helped C. invited D. greeted
26. A. colleague B. wife C. daughter D. partner
27. A. amazing B. amusing C. boring D. tiring
28. A. individually B. together C. alone D. equally
29. A. however B. therefore C. instead D. moreover
30. A. similar B. familiar C. different D. absurd
31. A. built B. faced C. made D. decorated
32. A. appealed to B. given up C. kept to D. taken up
33. A. use B. lack C. add D. provide
34. A. continue B. allow C. fail D. process
35. A. open B. social C. new D. limited
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