Match in the gap. When Roosevelt became president, on March 4, 1933, and with his wife , Eleanor Roosevelt, moved into the White House, the Great Depression was at its 1. The American depression had begun with the stock market crash in New York City in October 1929. As a result, the banking system had collapsed. Many states had declared so-called bank holidays to 2 banks from being ruined when their clients withdrew all their money. People who had been successful suddenly found themselves penniless overnight. Sixteen million or more people were unemployed, and many had been out of 3___for a year or even longer. In 1932 nearly two million Americans were without homes moving from one locality to another. They were what Fortune magazine called the Depression’s “wandering population”. Whether Americans would be 4 with the new leadership depended on Roosevelt’s success in bringing aid to those in distress and in achieving some measure of economic improvement. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address, with its promise to make war upon the depression and its final phrase, “the only thing we have to fear is fear 5, “brought a new style to the U.S. presidency.
1. A) beginning B) worst C ) middle D) centre
2. A) not give B) convince C ) prevent D) protrude
3. A) home B) house C ) work D ) employment
4. A) glad B) satisfied C ) joined D) helpful
5. A) us B) ourselves C ) oneself D) itself

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