2014届高三英语二轮专题突破：完形填空56.docVIP

2014届高三英语二轮专题突破：完形填空 1. 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 In 1941, when my father joined the U.S. Army, he was told that, on a written test, he had showed ___21___ for preparing food. Army officials offered him a course in becoming a cook. My father ___22___ because he thought he could ___23___ the battles. As things turned out, he got good ___24___ and became head cook of an army kitchen. All went well ___25___ he had to deal with spinach(菠菜). Because spinach is good for health, the army ___26___ it several times per week. ___27___, the soldiers refused ___28___ to look at spinach on their plates. After hours of cooking spinach, my father ___29___ that, at the end of the meal, he was throwing all of it away. To save time and effort, he decided simply to throw away the ___30___ vegetable before it was cooked. One day an army officer saw the ___31___ spinach in the rubbish. He blamed my father, ___32___ that he was destroying government property(财产). ___33___ my father explained that he was simply ___34___ the army the trouble of cooking the unwanted vegetable, the army officer insisted on ___35___ him by taking five dollars from his pay for the next three months. Later, one officer told him that fresh spinach was government property, but cooked spinach was not. ___36___if the spinach were cooked, it ___37___be thrown out. From then on, my father __38___ all the spinach and then immediately ___39___ it into a rubbish can to keep everyone ___40___. The government did not have its property thrown out, and the soldiers did not have spinach on their plates. 　21. A. a skill B. an interest C. a gift D. an advantage 　22. A. wondered B. understood C. accepted D. admitted 　23. A. take part in B. carry on with C. catch up with D. stay away from 　24. A. chance B. records C. experience D. grades 25. A. until B. as C. when D. so 　26. A. prepared B