During the next several years, the richest nation on earth learned what it meant to be poor . Hard times _ 26 _ their way into every area, group and job . Workers _ 27 _ as factories closed . Farmers hit with falling prices and natural disasters were _ 28 _ to give up their farms . Businessmen lost their stores and sometimes their homes . It was a severe economic crisis——a ( an ) _ 29 _ ——the worst of time . The economic crisis began with the stock market crash in October, 1929 . For the first year, the economy _ 30 _ very slowly . But it dropped sharply in 1931 and 1932 . And by the end of 1932, the economy _ 31 _ almost completely . Falling production . Rising unemployment . Men begging in the streets . But there was more to the _ 32 _ crisis . At that time, the federal government did not guarantee the money that people put in banks. When people could not repay loans, banks began to close . In 1929, 659 banks with total holdings of 200 million dollars went out of business . The next year, twice that number failed _ 33 _ . And the year after that, almost twice that number of banks went out of business . People blamed President Hoover because they thought he was not doing enough to help them . Hoover did take several actions to try to improve the economy . But he resisted _ 34 _ for the federal government to provide _ 35 _ in a major way.

A)frustration E)intensively I)built M)found

B)remedy F)depression J)fatal N)extensively

C)fought G)struggled K)collapsed O)treatment

D)forced H)descended L)proposals

The stock market crash of 1929 marked the beginning of the worst economic crisis in American history . During the next several years, the richest nation on earth learned what it meant to be poor . 

Hard times _ 26 _ their way into every area, group and job . Workers _ 27 _ as factories closed . Farmers hit with falling prices and natural disasters were _ 28 _ to give up their farms . Businessmen lost their stores and sometimes their homes . It was a severe economic crisis——a ( an ) _ 29 _ ——the worst of time . 

The economic crisis began with the stock market crash in October, 1929 . For the first year, the economy _ 30 _ very slowly . But it dropped sharply in 1931 and 1932 . And by the end of 1932, the economy _ 31 _ almost completely . 

Falling production . Rising unemployment . Men begging in the streets . But there was more to the _ 32 _ crisis . At that time, the federal government did not guarantee the money that people put in banks. When people could not repay loans, banks began to close . In 1929, 659 banks with total holdings of 200 million dollars went out of business . The next year, twice that number failed _ 33 _ . And the year after that, almost twice that number of banks went out of business . 

People blamed President Hoover because they thought he was not doing enough to help them . Hoover did take several actions to try to improve the economy . But he resisted _ 34 _ for the federal government to provide _ 35 _ in a major way.