阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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 ________.
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.
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| A．reflected |
B．explained |
C．meant |
D．proved |
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| A．would |
B．could |
C．might |
D．should |
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| A．nothing |
B．everything |
C．anything |
D．something |
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| A．goal |
B．stage |
C．journey |
D．chance |
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| A．trouble |
B．satisfaction |
C．strength |
D．disappointment |
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| A．kept |
B．sent |
C．watched |
D．felt |
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| A．through |
B．from |
C．against |
D．before |
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| A．miss |
B．afford |
C．select |
D．understand |
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| A．educated |
B．protected |
C．stuck |
D．spoilt |
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| A．allowed |
B．invited |
C．inspired |
D．persuaded |
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| A．roughly |
B．simply |
C．merrily |
D．curiously |
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| A．words |
B．videos |
C．notes |
D．lessons |
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| A．decades |
B．weeks |
C．hours |
D．moments |
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| A．play |
B．freeze |
C．click |
D．adjust |
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| A．same |
B．warm |
C．different |
D．dirty |
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| A．predicted |
B．realized |
C．imagined |
D．insisted |
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| A．pass over |
B．turn up |
C．bring in |
D．concentrate on |
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| A．ashamed |
B．aware |
C．tired |
D．proud |
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| A．casually |
B．anxiously |
C．nicely |
D．frequently |
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