完形填空：共 15 小题。通读下面的短文，掌握其大意。然后，从每小题的四个选择项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
　　The tallest building in America’s capital city is the Washington Monument(纪念碑). It is ___21___ for George Washington, the first president of the United States. He ___22___ the American colonies(殖民地)in the War of Independence(独立)against England from 1775 to 1783. As president, he ___23___ the new United States of America through its first difficult ___24___.
　　The monument is one of the most popular ___25___ in the world. Lights shine on it at night. It can usually be ___26___ from far away.George Washington was born in 1732. He ___27___ school for only about seven or eight years. At age 20 he ___28___ an officer in the colonial army.___29___, as time passed, he became angry with the way England ___30___ the American colonies. The war against Britain ___31___ in 1775. The Americans named George Washington chief of the revolutionary armies.
　　Many of his soldiers were not trained, and they were ___32___ equipped(装备). During one winter of the Revolutionary War, his soldiers ___33___ froze to death. But General Washington led them to ___34___. The last group of British soldiers left the colonies in 1783. In 1789, he was ___35___ as the first president of the United States.