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 ________.
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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9】【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 |
【小题16】A.same | B.warm | C.different | D.dirty |
【小题17】A.predicted | B.realized | C.imagined | D.insisted |
【小题18】A.pass over | B.turn up | C.bring in | D.concentrate on |
【小题19】A.ashamed | B.aware | C.tired | D.proud |
【小题20】A.casually | B.anxiously | C.nicely | D.frequently |