二、完形填空。(共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分)
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。
It was time for the Potato Salad Contest held every year.
"Do you think you'll win the Golden Potato again?" asked Elizabeth's younger sister，Brianna.
Elizabeth shook her head
C
11. "
D
12 isn't here to help this year，" Elizabeth said.
"I'll help you，" Brianna said. The girls mixed all the ingredients(原料) in a bowl.
"It doesn't taste right，" Elizabeth said after she tried the salad. "What's
C
13?"
"Something spicy(加有香料的)?" said Mum. "Your grandpa
D
14 spicy things."
"It's
A
15，but it's still not right，" Elizabeth said after adding some spice.
"Are you making Grandpa's popular potato salad?" Dad asked.
"We're
C
16，" Elizabeth said. "But we're missing something. Should we look in a cookbook?"
"Grandpa wasn't the one who
C
17 a cookbook，" Dad said.
It was true. Grandpa's potato salad was different from others'. Elizabeth remembered taking a photo with Grandpa after they won last year.
Photo. That gave her an idea.
She found out an old photo album(相册). "Maybe we'll find
A
18 here，" she said.
Lots of pictures showed Grandma and Grandpa
B
19 together. One showed Grandma was touching Grandpa's face with flour(面粉)，leaving
A
20
hand prints all over.
Dad laughed. "He and Grandma loved to
C
21 each other，but he always called her Honey."
"Do you think he put
C
22 in the potato salad?" Brianna asked.
She put some into the bowl. But it still wasn't quite right.
At the end of the album was the picture of Grandpa and Elizabeth holding the Golden Potato. It looked like Grandpa was
A
23.
"Well，he did say the potato salad brought tears to his eyes，" Dad said.
"I know the secret ingredient!" Elizabeth shouted. She ran to get an
C
24.
"Will you cut up this，Dad?" she asked.
After Elizabeth added the secret ingredient，the family tasted the potato salad and
B
25. They finally found out Grandpa's recipe(食谱).
"Let's get this salad to the contest，" Dad said excitedly with tears in his eyes.
(
)11. A. happily
B. angrily
C. sadly
D. bravely
(
)12. A. Grandma
B. Dad
C. Mum
D. Grandpa
(
)13. A. changing
B. disappearing
C. missing
D. growing
(
)14. A. suggested
B. hated
C. allowed
D. preferred
(
)15. A. closer
B. sweeter
C. stranger
D. fresher
(
)16. A. preparing
B. ordering
C. trying
D. serving
(
)17. A. wrote
B. sold
C. followed
D. borrowed
(
)18. A. something
B. anything
C. nothing
D. everything
(
)19. A. drinking
B. cooking
C. cleaning
D. walking
(
)20. A. white
B. red
C. black
D. blue
(
)21. A. care about
B. cheer up
C. laugh at
D. chat with
(
)22. A. flour
B. oil
C. honey
D. salt
(
)23. A. crying
B. shouting
C. laughing
D. eating
(
)24. A. apple
B. egg
C. onion
D. orange
(
)25. A. worked
B. smiled
C. waited
D. left
