湖北省团风县2017高考英语一轮复习 完形填空暑假选练（五）.docVIP

湖北团风县2017高考英语完形填空暑假选练（五） 完形填空。请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 ???????My parents had always prepared for hurricanes. It is what???1???people do in Florida because “you never know”. For us, that???2???a?white metal cabinet (储藏柜) in our utility room (杂用间)?filled with cans of food. We could???3???eat anything out of the cabinet because “you never know” when a hurricane will come. ???????As a kid, I was???4 ???about the white cabinet. I thought it was kind of strange to have food in the utility room. But, one look from my mother???5 ???me from opening the door to glance inside. ???????One year, Channel 4 reported that Hurricane Dora was???6 ???for the northern part of Florida. Soon the storm got? 7 and the wind blew. Then, the tall pine trees started to sway. And, by?“sway”, I meant “??8 ???over or crash down on anything in their way”. We were lucky, as the????9 ???went other directions and didn’t take our power out. ?However, when my mother started cooking, the power was out.???10 ???I figured it was time to crack open that white cabinet. But, Dad thought it was time to???11 ???up the charcoal grill outside where it was raining and windy. To this day, I never???12 ???a?man’s love for his grill. ???????Our power came back for a while. So, my mother began cooking everything she could and????13 ???it away, to the neighbors, to friends without power, to anyone who was???14 ???up. I was hoping that the fried chicken was going to find its way to our??? 15?. But, it didn’t. And, just as the last of the food was sent out and she began to work on our dinner, yes, we lost our???16 ??. It was time for 20 minutes’ eggs on the grill. ???????Oh, the white metal cabinet. No. We never???17 ???it. We weren’t “that bad off” as I understand it. And, for years I???18 ???how bad off we would have to be to eat out of that cabinet. Perhaps it was just the???19 ???of it, the thought that it was there watching our backs???20 ???we wanted a can of beans or some potted meat. I don’t kno