From my second grade on, there was one 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 ________. 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: A．as B．once C．if D．while 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