题目内容：

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The two features of life in England that possibly give visitors the worst impressions are the English weather and English cooking. 1. former is a natural phenomenon and nobody can do anything about it. But cooking is something 2. can be learned. English food has often been described as 3. (taste). Recently, the situation has changed somewhat because so many people have been spending their holidays abroad and 4. (learn) to appreciate unfamiliar dishes. One of the traditional complaints about English food is the way that vegetables are cooked. The only way that many British housewives know to cook green vegetables is 5. (boil) them for too long in too much salt water and then to throw the water away so that all the vitamins are lost. To make matters 6. (bad), they do not strain the vegetables sufficiently so that 7. appear as a wet mass on the plate.

However, it would be unfair to say that all English food is bad. Indeed not only the raw ingredients are usually 8. very high quality, especially the meat and fish, 9. many traditional British dishes are as good as anything you can get anywhere. A visitor, 10. is invited to an English home might well enjoy steak and kidney pudding or pie, all sorts of smoked fish .