Frank began to tell us of his childhood. “I _________ up in San Pedro. My Dad was a fisherman, but it was _________ making a living on the sea. He would stay out until he caught enough to _________ the family. He was strong from pulling the nets and fighting the seas for his _________. When you got close to him, he _________ like the ocean.”

Frank’s voice dropped a bit. “When the weather was bad, he would _________ me to school driving his old truck. You could hear it coming for _________. As he drove toward the school, I would shrink (畏缩) down into the seat _________ to disappear (消失). He would give me a big kiss _________ the cheek and tell me to be a good boy. it was so embarrassing (令人尴尬的) for me.”

One day when we got to the school, with his ____________ big smile, he started to lean (斜靠) toward me, but I ____________ my hand and said, “No, Dad. I’m too old for a goodbye ____________.”

My Dad looked at me for the longest time, and his eyes started to ____________ up. I had never seen him cry. “You’re ____________,” he said. “You are a big boy... a man. I won’t kiss you anymore.” It was the first time I had ____________ talked to him that way, and he had this ____________ look on his face.

Tears began to well up in Frank’s eyes, as he ____________. “It wasn’t long ____________ my Dad went to ____________ and never came back. You don’t know what I would give to have my Dad give me just one ____________ kiss on the cheek…”

Recently, a picture of a soaking wet father holding an umbrella for his son in New York street has spread widely on the Internet. The _______moved countless netizens, commenting “Father’s love is as ________as a mountain.”

The name of “Father Umbrella”is Liu Qiao,_______told the reporter the photos were _____on September 10^th. Because of the sudden rain, he only took a(n)_______umbrella in the office to _______his son at the kindergarten gate. “My home is near, so there is no need to_______rain.”Liu Qiao said giving the only umbrella to his son in the rain was a very_______instinct（本能）and getting praised so widely was _______his expectation.

Some netizens questioned, “Why didn’t he _______his son?”Liu Qiao thinks he has been creating the best _______for this son instead of doing all the things for him and let him_______for himself.“I want him to do things_______, so I did not hold him and the schoolbag was also_______him. But after all he was too young to _______cold, so I held an umbrella to _______him from the rain.”

Netizen’s interpretation of this picture is:“As a father, he can_______his son, but his son must walk himself. Dad’s _______hand is the cause, the right hand the _______, backing on the wind and rain…The ‘umbrella father’ shows ‘Dad can’t give you the best,_______gives you all!”And this also lets countless friends say,“It melts the heart down.”

My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would go sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at   _______. As for me, I _______ both before twelve because of living close to Lake Ontario.

The last time Dad and I set sail together is really   _______. It was a perfect weekend after I graduated from university. I came home and _______ Dad to go sailing. Out we set soon on the _______ lake. Dad hadn’t sailed for years, but everything _______ well with the tiller (舵柄) in his hands.

When we were in the middle of the lake, a _______ wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit _______ . Dad was always at his best in any _______ , but at this moment he ________ . “John!   ________ !” he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.

In my memory he could fix any ________ . He was the one I always ________ for strength and security. ________ I could respond, a wave of water got into the boat. I ________ to the tiller but it was too late. Another huge wall of water ________ the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt fiercely ________ of him.

I swam to Dad ________ and assisted him in climbing onto the hull (船壳) of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, Dad was a little awkward about his flash (瞬间) of ________ . “It’s all right, Dad. We are safe now,” I comforted him.

That was the first time Dad had relied on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it was my turn to start ________for my father.