[听力原文] 11-15
Peter Smith joined the army when he was 18, and for several months he was taught how to be a good soldier, He did quite well in everything except shooting. One day he and his friends were practicing their shooting, and all of them were doing quite well except Peter. After he had shot at the target nine times and had not hit it once, the officer who was trying to teach the young soldiers to shoot said," You’re quite hopeless, Peter! Don’t waste your last bullet too! Go behind that wall and shoot yourself with it!"
Peter felt ashamed. He went behind the wall, and a few seconds later the officer and the other young soldiers heard the sound of a shot.
"Heavens!" the officer said. "Has that silly man really shot himself " He ran behind the wall anxiously, but Peter was all right. "I’m sorry, sir, "he said. "But I missed again.
In 1941,when my father joined the U. S. Army, he was told that, on a written test, he had showed (36) for preparing food. Army officials offered him a course in becoming a cook. My father (37) because he thought he could (38) the battles, is things turned out, he got good (39) and became head cook of an army kitchen.
All went well 40 he had to deal with spinach (菠菜). Because spinach is good for health, the army (41) it several times per week. (42) , the soldiers refused (43) to look at spinach on their plates. After hours of cooking spinach, my father (44) 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 (45) vegetable before it was cooked.
One day an army officer saw the (46) spinach in the rubbish. He blamed my father, (47) that he was destroying government property (财产). (48) my father explained tha
A. turned
B. made
C. put
D. knocked
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