I have a neighbor who is a capable, fashionable, seventy-year-old, single woman. Her name is Grace. Grace was laid off from her job a little over two years ago and has been living off her savings ever since but not officially "retired". Grace called me up one day about this time last year and asked if I had a ladder. She needed to clean out her gutters ( 水 槽 ) on the roof and wanted me to hold the ladder.
She didn't want me to climb up and clean the gutters. She just wanted me to hold the ladder. As it happened I did have a ladder. I said: “The leaves are going to fall off the trees in a month, why don't  we wait till they finish and do it then?” She agreed and naturally we didn't talk about it again until spring. Spring in Tennessee is wild and we talked about it over the course of three weeks in which it rained nearly every day, then I got busy and Grace went into seclusion (隐居).
A couple of weeks ago, she told me she'd been spending too much money and decided to apply
for a bar tending job at a local hotel. "Now I don't know about you all but I'd never considered what it would be like to apply for and begin a new job at the age of seventy. I'm fifty-three and the older I get, the more I think about how great it'll be if I can just get out of bed when I'm seventy." Anyway, she got the job, serving the bar and tending banquets at the hotel.
The day when she left for her training at 6 am, I walked across the street with my ladder and cleaned out her gutters.
21.When did the author advise Grace to clean her gutters?
A .In early spring.    B .In rainy season.
C .In time of leaves falling.    D .In time of few leaves on trees.
22.What was the author's neighbor doing when the author wrote the text?
A .Working at a hotel.    B .Training for her job.
C .Cleaning out her house.    D .Walking with the author.
23.What did the author think of her neighbor's re-employment?
A .Valuable.    B .Impossible.    C .Reasonable.    D .Unbelievable.

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