I remember the day when I first learned to ride a bike. It was a ________ , yet fun experience. My grandfather was the one________ taught me and he helped me when I got hurt. The first time I got on a________   I had no idea what I was doing, and just about everything ________. My grandfather told me to just put my feet on the pedals (脚蹬子) and start________. He also told me he would________ the back of the bike the whole time, yet he didn’t.

As soon as I started trying to________ myself, he let the bike go. I happened to look back just then. I was scared to________ that I was going to fall and hurt myself. When I was scared, my mind went________ from cycling, and I just wanted to get off. I forgot how to use the brakes (车闸) and fell right off the bike. My grandfather kept________ me to get up and try again, and after about 15________, I finally stopped crying, got up and tried again. The next morning I woke up________, and was very eager to try to ride my bike. I gradually learned to ride my bike and I wasn’t that________ of falling anymore.

Although I knew there were a range of________ on the way to mastering the skills in riding a bike , I believed I could do well with my grandfather’s________. After all, riding a bike was indeed what I wanted to do eagerly.

It is a blue, cotton shirt. The shirt belonged to my_______David. On his birthday before he left home for the college, his mother bought him the shirt._______I gave him free use of my bike, he let me wear the shirt, occasionally.

We shared the shirt, and as days_______, we shared more of our_______. David was in school by scholarships and grants (助学金). He_______to keep his scholarships, because without even one of them, he would have to_______and back on the farm. His father died when he was twelve. In David's home, there was always only enough money to_______the expense.

At times David also talked about his_______. Usually it was late at night, in the dormitory just before bed, and the_______always ended with tears that flowed from a river of memories and longings：memories of a father suffering from________when his son was just a teenager；longings for opportunities to________his father's disease missed, because disease does not understand about the________between father and son. Nor does it care.

Time passed and we had to say goodbye to each other. After lots of hugging, and words of thanks, we________departed. It was on my________trip upstairs to our dormitory that I saw a package on my bed. I________the wrapping paper. It was the________cotton shirt in a box with a card attached(粘附) to it,________“Thomas, I can't thank you enough for your________. This has been hard years and you have been more than a friend. I will________the happy time. Thank you for listening. Thanks for everything. David”.

I put aside the note, with________tears dropping on the shirt. I still have the shirt today, though it has faded and wrinkled with age.

Two weeks ago, my grandfather passed away. It really put me into deep _________ because my grandfather held a unique position in my life. For me, my grandpa was not only a _________ family member but a tutor who encouraged me to work hard and _________well.

I'll never forget the first time I read a long piece of his writing. It was when I _________ for Princeton University and he offered to write the recommendation letter for me. He wrote in beautiful _________ and used poetic language, unafraid of sounding too “flowery”. I read the _________ out loud so that I could hear the rhyming sounds.

My grandfather _________ hard work. Every time he came to visit us in New York, he would _________ my brothers and me for our good performance, which inspired me. I knew he had worked hard to _________ the big family during the Great Depression. He was awarded many military __________ for winning many battles in the Navy in World War II.

At the funeral, a friend of my grandfather's walked to me and said that my grandfather had told him about a small __________ I had written. After it came out, I sent it to my grandfather __________ received no reply. This man told me that my book hit my grandfather's __________ and brought tears to his eyes. My grandfather said he was so __________ of me.

Now I feel it's even more worthwhile to write well because I know my grandfather __________ it. I know he lives in my heart forever.