Frommysecondgradeon，therewasoneeventIfearedeveryyear：th...

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From my second grade on，there was one event I feared every year：the piano recital(獨奏會)．A recital__27__I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers．Each year I___28 ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”．And each year he’d shake his head，muttering(嘀咕) 29 about Building self-confidence and working towards a

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So it was with really great 31 that I stood in church one recent Sunday，video camera in hand，and 32 my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt 33 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

34 lessons．He could have gone on regretting it， 35 too many of us do．But though he was rooted in his past，he wasn’t 36 there．When he retired three years ago，he 37 his

church music director to take him as a student．

For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard，he 38 stared down at his fingers．

Has he forgotten the 39 ? I worried，remembering those split seconds 40 ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would 41 ．But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the 42 fingers that once baited(裝餌於)my fishing lines．And I 43 he had been doing what music teachers always stress： 44 the music and pretend the others aren’t there．

“I'm 45 of him for starting something new at his age，”I said to my son Jeff．

“Yeah，and doing it so 46 ，”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．

27．A．reflected B．explained C．meant D．proved

28．A．would B．could C．might D．should

29．A．nothing B．everything C．anything D．something

30．A．goal B．stage C．journey D．chance

31．A．trouble B．satisfaction C．strength D．disappointment

32．A．kept B．sent C．watched D．felt

33．A．through B．from C．against D．before

34．A．miss B．afford C．select D．understand

35．A．as B．once C．if D．while