When I was a young student, none of my friends listened to classical music. Few learned to play an _______ for more than a year or two. They were listening to the big bands. But dad _______ me to learn to play the piano and I studied for three years. And later, you know, I gave it up. But one day one thing changed me _______.

One Saturday, I went to a _______ birthday party of one of my classmates and there were quite a crowd of people of my _______. And some of the kids were fooling around at the piano while the parents are _______ us a big meal. Then one of the girls _______ stopped talking, looked at me and said, “Robert, you took piano lessons. _______, play something!”

“No, I’m not going to play the piano.” I _______ that no one in that room would show________ in the kind of music that I could play. But though I was ________ objecting, I was pushed by my friends toward the piano. I was “________” to sit down. And there I was face to face with eighty-eight black and white ________.

What to play? The only thing that came to my ________ was Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. So, I began with the slow ________. And after two measures I became aware that there was a ________ in the room. After the next two measures, I felt people ________ toward me, and then the parents came out of the kitchen ________. I played the whole first movement and when I was through, the applause and cheers were ________ to believe.

If I had known that this would have happened, I never would have given up ________ playing the piano.

Sudha Chandran, who was a classical dancer from India, had to have her right leg cut after a car accident. She was also cut off on her career (事业) road.

Though the accident brought her bright career to a _______, she didn’t give up. In the _______ months that followed, Sudha met a doctor who developed an artificial (人造的) _______ made from rubber filled with sponge (海绵). So strongly she wanted to go back to _______ after she had been fitted with an artificial leg. Sudha knew that she believed in herself and could _______ her dream, so she began her courageous journey back to the world of dancing _______ to balance, bend, stretch, walk, turn, twist and twirl.

After every public recital (个人表演), she _______ ask her dad about her performance. “You still have a long way to go” was the answer she used to get _______. In January 1984, Sudha made a historic _______ by giving a public recital in Bombay. She performed in such a great manner that it ________ everyone to tears and this ________ pushed her to the number one position again. That evening when she asked her dad the ________ question, he didn’t say anything. He just touched her feet as a praise.

Sudha’s comeback was ________ moving that a film producer decided to make the story into a hit film.

When someone asked Sudha how she had ________ to dance again, she said quite simply, “YOU DON’T NEED FEET TO DANCE.” ________ is impossible in this world. If you have the will to win, you can achieve anything.

Sixteen years ago, while we were driving on vacation, my wife decided to pass the time by singing “The Christmas Song”. She sang it over and over again. Somehow, I decided to _________ with her.

When she got to the _________ “Jack Frost nipping (捏) at your nose,” I said, in my most horrified voice, “Why are you _________ that song?” As she looked confused, I proceeded to _________ her that Jack Frost was the name of a violent patient who _________ an asylum (精神病院) on Christmas in the 1920s and went around devouring (吞噬) faces, _________ noses, which he had acquired a _________ for.

Shocked and terrified, she _________ it completely.

Fast forward to this year. It’s snowing outside and I was in a good mood. I started singing “The Christmas Song” and my wife then _________ me that Jack Frost, the serial __________ biter, had forever __________ that song for her.

I laughed and __________ that I was teasing that day and that I honestly didn’t think she believed me. She got quite __________ since for all these years she had cheerfully shared this dark and shocking story with anyone who would listen and it turned out a __________.

As for me, though I am now the King of Lies who is never to be __________ again, it has become the most cheerful holiday story in our family ever.