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Learning to Accept
I learned how to accept life as it is from my father.
1 , he did not teach me acceptance when he was
strong and healthy, but rather when he was
2 and ill.
My father was
3 a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness
4 all that away. Now
he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is
5 . One night. I went to
visit him with my sisters. We started
6 about life, and I told them about one of my
7 . I said that we
must very often give things up
8 , we grow-our youth, our beauty, our friends-but it always
9 that
after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father
10 up. He said,
"But, Peter, I gave up
11 ! What did I gain?" I thought and thought, but I could not think of anything to say,
12 , he answered his own question:"I
13 the love of my family." I looked at my sisters and saw tears in
their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.
I was also
14 by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated (恼怒的) at someone, I
15
remember his words and become
16 . If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others,
then I should be
17 to give up my small irritations. In this
18 . I learned the power of acceptance from
my father.
Sometimes I
19 what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when
I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this one
20 .
( )1.A. Afterwards ( )2.A. tired ( )3.A. already ( )4.A. took ( )5.A. impossible ( )6.A. worrying ( )7.A. decisions ( )8.A. as ( )9.A. suggests ( )10.A. spoke ( )11.A. something ( )12.A. Surprisingly ( )13.A. had ( )14.A. touched ( )15.A. should ( )16.A. quiet ( )17.A. ready ( )18.A. case ( )19.A. doubt ( )20.A. award |
B. Therefore B. weak B. still B. threw B. difficult B. caring B. experiences B. since B. promises B. turned B. anything B. Immediately B. accepted B. astonished B. could B. calm B. likely B. form B. wonder B. gift |
C. However C. poor C. only C. sent C. stressful C. talking C. ambitions C. before C. seems C. summed C. nothing C. Naturally C. gained C. attracted C. would C. relaxed C. free C. method C. know C. lesson |
D. Meanwhile D. slow D. once D. put D. hopeless D. asking D. beliefs D. till D. requires D. opened D. everything D. Certainly D. enjoyed D. warned D. might D. happy D. able D. way D. guess D. word |