The earliest memory I have of my father is one of me as a young boy holding his hand by his two last fingers as we walked together.

As I grew older I remember us listening over a transistor radio to high school ballgames together. I would _________ how many points each player would score as the game went on. Too small to stay awake for the _________ game, I always fell asleep _________ the game ended. But the next morning I would find by my pillow the score _________ had been filled out with the _________ score on; it was completed by my father.

In high school I became very interested in athletics. My father would_________all my games. Good performances in my senior year _______ our football team to the state championship game. The night before my father _______ announced he had to _________ the bread to the stores and the site of the games was a three-hour drive from his __________. Back then I wasn’t fully noticing his ________.

The next day as game time approached I couldn’t help thinking about Dad. Suddenly, I saw that blue and white bread truck________ into the stadium. Work fulfilled, he made the long drive in time to at least see __________of my championship game.

Years later I had become a teacher and coach. Early one morning I was awakened by a ring at 5:30 A.M. As I ________to answer the phone I’ll never forget the sound of the sheriff’s voice—my dad had just been killed in an automobile accident on his way to work. It felt as if my heart had been __________.

For long I tried to remain strong ________it and pretended I didn’t care until one day on the playground a little boy walked up to me and grabbed my hand by my last two fingers just as I used to do to my dad. I completely __________ it. It was the first time since the __________ that I just let go and cried. And I felt a sense of __________. Sometimes you just have to __________. It won’t need to hold back anymore.”

Sonia learnt some first aid skills in her infant CPR (幼儿心肺复苏) class. Last week she told us that she_______ her daughter’s life using the skills. Her experience might be _______ to other parents with young children. Here is her _______.

Last Friday I took my 9-month-old daughter to a doctor and she had blood drawn (抽血) from her finger. The doctor put a band-aid on her finger. Then we _______.

My husband _______ the car outside his friend’s house because he had to _______ something that he borrowed from his friend. Then I heard my daughter make _______ sounds. I looked at her and found she had tear-filled eyes, vomit (呕吐物) on her shirt, and a look that said, “Help me, Mom.”   _______, she wasn’t blue (青紫的).

I jumped out of the car, _______ her out of the car seat, flipped her over, and hit her on the ________ three times. I saw something fly out of her ________. I saw it was the ________ when I picked it up. I was so ________. I couldn’t imagine what could have happened if we had ________ home instead of parking the car there.

I went home and ________ signed up for Child CPR. I had taken Infant CPR in our town and remembered not to stick my ________ in her mouth to get out the choking object (填塞物) ---- ________my instinct (直觉) was to do just that.

It terrifies me that ________ like this can happen so suddenly to people around us. I think if it happened to my daughter, it could happen to anyone’s ________. I’ve also been telling all my friends with children to sign up for CPR classes because you just ________ know what might happen.

Friends and neighbors poured in to greet her. The phones ring endlessly and she answers them to accept_______from all the wishers. She is_______her golden day as she reaches 50 years of age.

Her mother welcomed her into this world with tears of _______, for she was not the son her mother had desired. Her father felt blessed to have a sweet little daughter like her_______. As she grew up, she_______joy to the whole family. Her grandparents made her life a princess, but her mother never showed any_______to her. She never really got a chance to _______a special mother-daughter bonding _______, she was always surrounded by her friends. But what she_______for was some tender words of love from her mother.

As she grew up, she found her own ways to__________her sorrow of such mental hurt. At college, she found some close friends to__________a lifelong friendship with. Her friends felt__________of her and remarked how lucky she was to live like a princess. Later she married a young bachelor who__________her a brighter future. There were several ups and downs in their__________but his support brought fresh__________to her life. She shared a magical relationship with her daughter, and thus she__________as a baby when her daughter married and immigrated abroad. She said her daughter had helped her__________the sorrow of her past. Our conversation was __________interrupted by a call. It didn’t take long for me to __________ who the caller was. It must be her __________.