16.The wisdom my 77-year-old father has passed on to me came more through osmosis (潛移) than lectures.My dad's (36)C shines through all.my life.
Old age hasn't (37)Bhim,mainly because he doesn't think almost-80 is old.He had ever trained for a charity (38)Aacross the Hudson River in New York.He wore his custom?fitted diving suit,but he still got so (39)D We warmed him and wrapped him in a sleeping bag."Oh,(40)D.it isn't that bad,"he'd say,"I am fine."He always is.He did (41)Athe Hudson swim a month later.
If you ask my father whether or not his life has been hard,he will say he is (42)D.He means the kind of happiness that comes from (43)Aa well-cooked family meal,taking a good long run or growing a perfect tomato..Did I mention that he used to nm marathons before his knee replacement surgery?He's the only one (44)Dconvinced me I could do it,too."Anyone can run a marathon,"he said,"(45)Ayou keep training".
My father was born in 1933.His childhood took a (46)Bat the beginning of World War It.His father j6ined the French Army and was (47)Bby the Germans and spent the war in a prison camp.My dad and his mother and sister were shipped off to New Jersey to live with relatives.His mother (48)C depression,and Dad went to a boarding school in New England from the sixth grade on.Yet in all Dad's dinner table (49)C,there have been many times when he turned them into (50)B stories.
After a family dinner the other night,my father advised us to try the skydiving (51)B"Sixty-five seconds of free falling,"he said."I (52)A it.I should have been a paratiooper(傘兵)"!
He loves getting cards in the mail,and usually I'm (53)A,so instead I call him on Father Day. But this year I've (54)Dto be early for once.'I want to let him know how much he (55)Cto me.
Dad,thank you-for all of it and mostly for your long faith that everything will be OK.
36.A.a(chǎn)bility | B.gentleness | C.optimism | D.humor |
37.A.comforted | B.slowed | C.punished | D.a(chǎn)ccused |
38.A.swim | B.donation | C.volunteer | D.a(chǎn)ctivity |
39.A.warm | B.sad | C.calm | D.cold |
40.A.come out | B.comeback | C.come over | D.come on |
41.A.complete | B.stop | C.delay | D.celebrate |
42.A.ordinary | B.young | C.disabled | D.lucky |
43.A.sharing | B,containing | C.destroying | D.buying |
44.A.whom | B.which | C.what | D.that |
45.A.a(chǎn)s long as | B.a(chǎn)s far as | C.though | D.because |
46.A. step | B.turn | C.sigh | D.dream |
47.A.killed | B.caught | C.driven | D.fired |
48.A.resulted in | B.trapped in | C.suffered from | D.separated from |
49.A.jokes | B.manners | C.stories | D.news |
50.A.foolish | B.great | C.short | D.terrible |
51.A.chance | B.a(chǎn)dventure | C.visit | D.movement |
52.A.loved | B.hated | C.used | D.a(chǎn)ssessed |
53.A.late | B.early | C.noisy | D.quiet |
54.A.refused | B.permitted | C.a(chǎn)llowed | D.decided |
55.A.occurs | B.possesses | C.means | D.proves |