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 was 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 _________ violently. 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 safety. Before I could respond, a __________ of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller __________ it was too late. Another huge wall of water turned over the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was __________ aimlessly. At that moment, I felt strongly __________ of him.

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

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

It was the biggest night of my life. Weeks of preparation had gone into this ________. This was the second grade play. I was ________ to be the shining star in my class’s performance of the musical One Big Happy Family. There was just one ________. My parents wouldn’t be attending the musical. My mum was ________ and her surgery was scheduled on the same night as the play.

Soon the big ________ came, and we all filed onto the stage. The show began. My second grade class started singing with off-key voices. Then I ________ as my classmates stumbled (不顺畅地说) through their lines. Finally, it was my ________. The kid standing next to me tried to ________ the microphone carefully, and I took a deep breath before ________ my line. As I started to speak, I noticed the microphone was not turned on. ________, I switched the device on. I then said my line as quickly as possible.

A few days later my mum returned home. I showed her the recording of my second grade play. When my line came up I began to get ________. But my mum wasn’t ________; she told me how proud she was of my ________. I felt instantly ________, and convinced myself that I had done an amazing job under the given circumstances. I was so happy that I almost forgot she had ________ the important event.

A man cancelled his daughter’s l6th birthday party after giving her repeated warnings about her behaviour. But she_________to be good and used to hang out with the wrong crowd. As a result, she couldn’t keep her_________up all the time. The man_________that his daughter could have a party if she did well in the_________and stayed out of trouble.

Things were going well and they_________a celebration, but then the man got a_________from his daughter’s teacher and was told that she had secretly taken a bottle full of_________into school. The man was quite surprised and_________his daughter by cancelling her birthday party.

When he told his daughter that the birthday party would be cancelled, she got very_________and started screaming (大声喊叫) at her father that he was the__________father in the world. She walked to her room very__________and closed the door with a loud noise.

After some days both had a heart-to-heart talk with each other. The father understood the punishment didn’t__________and the daughter also realised her__________. They decided to change their attitudes. His neighbours thought that he was right to__________his daughter. One of them said: “You are a pretty good parent! She’s__________she doesn’t have to leave school, honestly.”