阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Several years ago, my company experienced a slowdown in business. We hoped that it was only 1 . We had work enough for only four days of the week. So we decided that we would work from Monday to Thursday, and take Fridays to do 2 projects in our hometown. One day, we went to a very old gentleman's 3 to do a total clean-up. When we arrived, an elderly woman 4 us at the door. We thought she was the wife, but it turned out that she was the 5 . She was 75, and her father 97! Soon, we began to clean the house and the yard. It was 6 how much work a group could get done when everyone was working 7 . 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, 8 , was not the great cleaning job that we did, but something 9 . When we walked into the house, I noticed the wonderful drawings that 10 the walls. The daughter told us that her father had 11 them, and that he hadn't12 art until he was 80 years old. I was 13 : 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 use my creative and artistic competence more than being president of a company would 14 . I had felt that it was too difficult to make a change at this "advanced" stage of my life. Boy! My 15 belief system got expanded that afternoon!
(1)
A .
temporary
B .
easy
C .
proper
D .
impossible
(2)
A .
research
B .
service
C .
design
D .
class
(3)
A .
company
B .
house
C .
office
D .
room
(4)
A .
showed
B .
helped
C .
invited
D .
greeted
(5)
A .
colleague
B .
wife
C .
daughter
D .
partner
(6)
A .
amazing
B .
amusing
C .
boring
D .
tiring
(7)
A .
individually
B .
together
C .
alone
D .
equally
(8)
A .
however
B .
therefore
C .
instead
D .
moreover
(9)
A .
similar
B .
familiar
C .
different
D .
absurd
(10)
A .
built
B .
faced
C .
made
D .
decorated
(11)
A .
coloured
B .
painted
C .
observed
D .
purchased
(12)
A .
appealed to
B .
given up
C .
kept to
D .
taken up
(13)
A .
disappointed
B .
embarrassed
C .
shocked
D .
satisfied
(14)
A .
continue
B .
allow
C .
fail
D .
process
(15)
A .
open
B .
social
C .
new
D .
limited
答案:(1)A;(2)B;(3)B;(4)D;(5)C;(6)A;(7)B;(8)A;(9)C;(10)D;(11)B;(12)D;(13)C;(14)B;(15)D;