From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏演唱会). A recital _____I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I _____ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he would shake his head, muttering(嘀咕) _________about build self-confidence and working toward a ________.
So it was with really great______that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and ______my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt ______rising to play the piano in his very first recital.
My father had longed to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t _________lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, _______too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t ________there. When he retired three years ago, he _____ his church music director to take him as a student.
For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he ______stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the ______? I worried, remembering those split seconds______ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would _______. But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the _____fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines. And I______he had been doing what music teachers always stress:___ _____the music and pretend the others aren’t there.
“I’m ________of him for starting something new at his age,” I said to my son Jeff.
“Yeah, and doing it so______,” Jeff added.
With his first recital, my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.
| 小题1: | | A．reflected | B．explained | C．meant | D．proved | |
| 小题2: | | A．would | B．could | C．might | D．should | |
| 小题3: | | A．nothing | B．everything | C．anything | D．something | |
| 小题4: | | A．goal | B．stage | C．journey | D．chance | |
| 小题5: | | A．trouble | B．satisfaction | C．strength | D．disappointment | |
| 小题6: | | A．kept | B．sent | C．watched | D．felt | |
| 小题7: | | A．through | B．from | C．against | D．before | |
| 小题8: | | A．miss | B．afford | C．select | D．understand | |
| 小题10: | | A．educated | B．protected | C．stuck | D．spoilt | |
| 小题11: | | A．allowed | B．invited | C．inspired | D．persuaded | |
| 小题12: | | A．roughly | B．simply | C．merrily | D．curiously | |
| 小题13: | | A．words | B．videos | C．notes | D．lessons | |
| 小题14: | | A．decades | B．weeks | C．hours | D．moments | |
| 小题15: | | A．play | B．freeze | C．click | D．adjust | |
